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"Note: I am running a Slack desktop client on OS X with eleven (11) accounts."

Admittedly, Slack is a lot of resource usage for what is something like a glorified IRC client, but this is not the average Slack user.

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That's not that outlandish. Many open source projects are using Slack, in addition to commercial projects. I've even seen some unique uses of it (like Airpair used it to bring together mentors and clients). Of course, I only use the Slack app for my main job, and any side projects/open source I use the browser for :-)

Ditto.. but my subjective feeling is that it's getting laggier there also. I mean, it was kinda lightweight back in the days but it's getting less and less responsive.

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