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Sblack: an ultra-lightweight Mac client for Slack

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21 pointsmkalygin13 comments

How is this different than wrapping the slack website with Fluid.app?

Also, https://github.com/frankdilo/sblack says "Sblack is no longer available for download since the app is in violation of the Slack Acceptable Use Policy. It was fun while it lasted, sorry guys!"

Also, telling me that it's safe without any evidence is awful. Don't do that. Link to the github repo instead of these meaningless "I promise that you can trust me, honest!" shenanigans.

Also, forcing an email signup to download? HAHAHAHAHA.

Did he take down the repo? It's no longer visible.

Solid observations.

> Did he take down the repo? It's no longer visible.

It looks like it. I can't articulate why, but that sets off alarm bells to me.

to be fair, the original sblack was a "drop your slack app on here and it'll be made into dark mode slack", which involved things that are against the slack AUP. I'm guessing this is a "Fine then, I'll make my own slack client with nightmode and no electron" using the slack APIs...

Could you add some screenshots?

Wey is a super fast, lightweight Slack client. However, the author doesn't seem to actively maintain it.

https://github.com/yue/wey

Using the builtin WebKit instead of a bundled Chrome is not enough to make an app “ultra-lightweight”. I was hoping for an actual native client…

Agreed, this doesn't seem to me `ultra-lightweight` vs normal slack after looking at Activity Monitor as a quick comparison. However, the dark theme is nice to have.

Developer of the app here. Feel free to ask questions.

Is it open source?

Just FYI, your app seems to occasionally choke on SSO sign-in.

Looks like the repo is gone, care to explain why? Concerns around security with apps like this are common. OSS doesn't fix that, but it makes things a bit easier to audit.

"Feel free to ask questions"

... But don't necessarily expect any answers I guess?

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