I’ve seen a few posts about Slack’s backend engineering. I’m normally interested in stuff like this, but honestly, their frontend client is so slow - so frustratingly slow - that I never read them. I wish they’d get it sorted out, I mean it’s truly abysmal.
This is an excellent post, great engineering work. I’m bookmarking it to send to people who do sloppy roll-outs. I highly recommend you read it even if you don’t like the client.
I use their desktop app on a pretty fast MBP. Switching between teams is painful, and I have a lot of issues with views being displayed and then updated a few seconds later, which is disorienting.
Slack tends to run slow in larger teams. Normally, I’d chalk it up to slower hardware, but I recently started using it on a newer Dell work laptop, and it is very easy for it to get slowed down if you’re doing anything with the rest of the machine.
I think the slack desktop front-end really could use a round of performance improvements so that it runs well on hardware that wasn’t literally released this year, or otherwise highly priced.
@nhooyr: What is the relative size of the teams you’ve been using it on? How many gifs do they use, how many channels are you usually in?
I’ve seen a few posts about Slack’s backend engineering. I’m normally interested in stuff like this, but honestly, their frontend client is so slow - so frustratingly slow - that I never read them. I wish they’d get it sorted out, I mean it’s truly abysmal.
This is an excellent post, great engineering work. I’m bookmarking it to send to people who do sloppy roll-outs. I highly recommend you read it even if you don’t like the client.
I’ve never really experienced it being that slow. When do you find it slow?
All the time. This is on fairly crappy hardware, mind, but still, compared to almost all other applications on my system it’s incredibly sluggish.
I use their desktop app on a pretty fast MBP. Switching between teams is painful, and I have a lot of issues with views being displayed and then updated a few seconds later, which is disorienting.
I tap a push notification from slack on mobile, and it takes >30 seconds to show me the message (on an iPhone 6s, one of the most used devices).
Slack tends to run slow in larger teams. Normally, I’d chalk it up to slower hardware, but I recently started using it on a newer Dell work laptop, and it is very easy for it to get slowed down if you’re doing anything with the rest of the machine.
I think the slack desktop front-end really could use a round of performance improvements so that it runs well on hardware that wasn’t literally released this year, or otherwise highly priced.
@nhooyr: What is the relative size of the teams you’ve been using it on? How many gifs do they use, how many channels are you usually in?