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They actually just fixed that in 4.0: https://slackhq.com/introducing-a-more-efficient-slack-deskt...

I'm currently sitting at 400MB total usage (including helpers) for 4 workspaces.

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400MB? Not bad for a chat client that sends a few bytes of text.

Still 10 times more compared to Telegram) Not to mention transfer speed and bandwith usage.

Aren't your coworkers sharing 10 MB gifs all day long?

The reason I don't like twitter because of all the dumb reaction gifs.

Still can't blame the browser when it consumes a gigabyte of ram, when we ask it to show us a gigabyte of gifs

This is on my Mac, whose apps aren't exactly known for memory efficiency.

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.

400MB for what basically is a client for a proprietary version of IRC is ridiculous. How much memory did BitchX use ?

while I don't remember how much memory did BitchX use, I do remember that a whopping 8 megs of ram was enough to run mIRC with 20+ channel tabs without serious glitches. And those precious megs were used not only for the irc client but also for the OS itself.

I have irssi reporting 25232 mem used

Half a gig for IRC + gifs

Seriously. Oh, good, now it's only 4-5x as large as it has any right to be, even allowing for modern software bloat...

Such is the nature of slightly optimized Electron apps, T-Mobile Digits Desktop app is a similar resource hog.

Using the browser based version often is less resource intensive.

Tried that, they actively employ darkpatterns to coerce users onto desktop apps. I even asked them to stop asking for an app install on their links that you open from inside the webapp and they told me to get stuffed and use the desktop app.

Yea, I use Matrix integration when I deal with Slack, that way I have my choice of client and there isn't any code of Slack's running on my machine.

Strange, after declining message about "native" desktop app, I've never seen it again. No other issues as well. Firefox 69 on Windows, one paid and one free workspace.

How is CPU and I/O use on the newest version?

About the same, for my usage.

Ooof, I'd hope they would have improved CPU use when handling lots of GIFs. Tusky and Mastodon's web frontend handle pausing offscreen GIFs pretty well, my fan doesn't spin up at all (unlike Slack's desktop client last I used it).

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