Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus

Re:Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus by danielheath on Friday August 26, 2022 @10:46PM (#32615129)

> Do you know why it's a resource hog? Is it the nature of Ruby (that appears to be what they use) vs php, or is it because it tries to be an SPA that has no pagination?

Ruby dev for 15 years here. Ruby is definitely slow, but in 2022 it's "tens of milliseconds to answer an HTTP request" slow.

They chose a javascript framework that turned out to be outrageously slow.

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Re:Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus by Raymonf on Friday August 26, 2022 @10:55PM (#32615186)

I found that my Discourse instance consistently took ~250 milliseconds to display the forum post list (according to the little box at the top left corner). After getting annoyed with Discourse, I went back to Invision Forum and I see about ~95 ms for the same thing, including sending the response to my browser.

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Re:Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus by danielheath on Friday August 26, 2022 @11:55PM (#32615483)

Those are both unreasonably slow in a way that has little to do with the language.

Optimizing responses has diminishing returns once you're below 100ms, but 250ms is far too slow.

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