2GB of RAM use for 6 open tabs in Slack is pretty awful, their desktop client has set the bar to compete with Slack on performance very low.
This abusive resource usage has created a dislike of Slack among a subset of its users.
This abusive resource usage has created a dislike of Slack among a subset of its users.
I'm currently sitting at 400MB total usage (including helpers) for 4 workspaces.
Using the browser based version often is less resource intensive.
Fantastical, a calendaring app, is sitting at 333MB.
1Password is taking up 168MB in the background.
Finder, which I don't even have a window open for, is eating 127MB.
I'm not saying 400MB is amazing or anything, but it's a significant drop from the gigs of memory wasted by previous versions.
This is a pretty reasonable complaint when you're talking about a system with 2gb, and a chat application that uses 1.5gb of memory...or heck, a 16gb system when you have programs that legitimately need as much memory as you can give them and are being starved of it. Nobody would begrudge this usage if it was necessary for the task, but it isn't. Not even close.
Edit: Apparently this is better than it used to be, but there have been times when Slack also ate up CPU like crazy. Which, again, no biggie if you have plenty to spare, but when you don't...and even then, if you have plenty to spare, you're still going to be annoyed with Slack if it's eating all of your battery because the CPU is working really really really hard at...um...dunno? If it were mining bitcoin/monero without your knowledge or consent then at least it would be DOING something.