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Re:Is the madness ever going to end? by tester34 on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @04:26AM (#29904148)
>What I mean is, the lost productivity of waiting around for slack to load a channel is essentially outsourcing this cost difference via poor performance.

What makes you think that Slack's loading times is due to Electron, not shitty backend?

This is genuine question

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Re:Is the madness ever going to end? by BeefWellington on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @08:39PM (#29915728)
If it were the backend, I would not expect the load times to improve when loading Slack into a browser tab where its resources are constrained.

Separately, if it were strictly a Slack problem and not Electron, you wouldn't expect to see these kinds of issues crop up across the spectrum of Electron apps. Scroll through this thread and you can see a variety of people running into these problems in all kinds of different electron-based apps:

https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/12988

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