• @TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    61 year ago

    Slack desktop app is built with electron and works much better than the web app in my experience. So no it’s not actually always that simple.

    • @phar@lemmy.ml
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      71 year ago

      It could be that simple. They just hinder their own website to get you to download the app.

    • Slack is one of those apps which lags in a week on any hardware, it might be better than web version but it still sucks ass compared to fucking ICQ clients. Source: using it in the company I work for, for about 7 years already.

      • @TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        I don’t often have trouble with slack being slow, or buggy. Been using it like 9 years myself. Interesting you’re comparing slack to icq. Are you referring to a current version of icq, or the one that existed in the early 2000s?

        I am not sure I understand comparing an app designed to do video/audio chat seamlessly, threaded conversations, channels, filesharing, plus has dozens of subtle nice features that make for a rich experience and a… Chat app, that worked fine for sending plaintext messages but didn’t really do anything else.

        • I compare it to qip or similar with voice calling support about 10 years ago. But still, Slack loses to pretty much anything on the market regarding performance, be that Element, Telegram, Skype or even Discord. It literally battles with biggest IDEs lol

    • John Richard
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      -11 year ago

      Now that Chromium has persistent File System Access permission support, what benefit does Electron have over a PWA other than “Native-looking” menu bars?