I use Slack every day, and I love it. Integrations are simple and reliable, giving us useful information about critical things.

Why it uses 400mb I have no idea.

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datsci_est_2015 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Why it uses 400mb I have no idea.

Yes, this is an important detail as well.

Make a Slack clone, but have it perform way better than the original (less RAM, CPU usage), with a smaller storage footprint.

Also deliver on features faster than the original. And have those features be more tailored to what the users both want and need - and things they didn’t even know they needed as well.

This is, after all, what’s being promised, no?

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hadlock 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Slack would be a lot better if they supported clients via rest api or similar. I want to run it in a terminal window alongside IRC etc. I have no desire to put up with their ridiculous UI/UX decisions

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philipwhiuk 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's just the base footprint of an Electron-based app.

Which they do because it means they can ship the same thing in many places (actual browser, cross platform OS and mobile if they're lucky).

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ltbarcly3 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

But it's so unreasonably slow. It lacks basic features like syntax highlighting on ``` blocks. It's basically become a super expensive and painful to use while Discord continues to be a joy.

And the 'start a thread' nazis are just too much to bear. Prediction: they will add subthreads within 3 years.

	▲	viraptor 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> And the 'start a thread' nazis Social issues can't be solved by technical means. Just slightly incentivised in some direction (like discord's "this is the third reply, would you like a thread instead?") But for the resource usage, ripcord https://cancel.fm/ripcord/ already proved you can have a capable client which is super light and fast if you care. This was made by a single person and in many ways is better than the official client.
	▲	dpkirchner 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Prediction 2: companies will hire full-time Slack Cops whose whole job is shaming coworkers and talking about threads (the #1 Slack anti-feature). Well, this was my prediction pre-easy-to-use LLMs, anyway.

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amelius 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Electron?