Slack is a constant garbage fire where clearly all the devs have a fast desktop and don’t care about performance or battery use in the slightest. I wish my org would move away from this junk.
My org hasn't moved away but I use localslackirc to connect via my preferred IRC client.
I get perks like not seeing reaction emojis, gifs, and being able to mute the constant flow of @channel notifications by configuring a list of people or channels from which I am not interested in getting these generic notifications.
Also most importantly, since my company recently shifted from treating us like adults to telling us we must only work on the assigned tasks and for no reason go out of task, I configured it to not join general discussions channels where people ask for help and such things. In theory I'm on them, but from the point of view of my IRC client I'm not.
It re-joins automatically if someone mentions me specifically. Unfortunately it won't fetch the history when this happens so I might need to open the real slack to get the context before I can answer.
Anyway, it has worked mostly fine for me… I can have decent battery life and I don't get most of the useless notifications.
Yeah.. seems like a great opportunity for Discord to start a Discorp whitelabel brand. :-) Just remove all the fun/spammy/nitro features, add SSO and an SLA, and slab on a steep per-seat price.
It's always been like this as well. Back when Slack first started gaining prominence ten years ago it was the only webapp that made my laptop's fan spin loudly. We actually migrated to HipChat because of that.
Same with how much space the entire thing wastes: it's clearly designed by people with 8K 30" monitors and perfect vision.
I have many more gripes, but that would be too off-topic. I don't understand how it got so popular.
I agree. I put in a ticket with them in 2015 that was basically “every time I compile I have to close slack because it uses more memory than my compiler”
