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Comment by threeseed | Hacker News Reader

Slack truly amazes me.

Here is a company that's entire reason for existence is to provide a great chat experience. And yet they can't be bothered to build native apps.

At least a dozen times a day Slack will freeze for at least 15s on my 2018 MacBook Pro. And this is with the current and beta versions. Unacceptable.

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Supporting 3 platforms (Linux, Mac and Windows) basically means triple the development effort. Off course slack would love to have native apps for all platforms, but apparently it's just not cost effective. 90% of the users probably don't even know what electron is, and even for those that do, it's probably safe to say that the performance benefits of a native application don't outweigh the the negatives of using something else then 90% of the company/community

Telegram is able to do this just fine.

with much less $$$

> Supporting 3 platforms (Linux, Mac and Windows) basically means triple the development effort

Only if you're completely clueless.

I keep reading about people saying this but it hasn't happen once for me or my coworkers (500 employees). Are we too small or what's the difference?

EDIT: My coworkers as in my team, didn't ask all 500. :P

It happens to everyone in my team.

It's related to having multiple workspaces which is common if you work for a large enterprise.

Apparently it's all too much for this glorified IRC client.

I use Slack in a web browser. I have never had any of the issues I've seen others complain about.

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