Slack's Desktop App Now Launches 33% Faster, Uses 50% Less Memory

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Slack's Desktop App Now Launches 33% Faster, Uses 50% Less Memory


The latest version of Slack for desktop and internet browsers is due out in the coming weeks and promises a 33% faster launch time, 10 times faster launch of VoIP calls, and roughly 50% less memory usage. The news comes a month after Slack became a public company, listed as WORK on the New York Stock Exchange. Slack product architect and lead of desktop client rewrite Johnny Rodgers said the upgrade takes advantage of changes to Slack's underlying technology, like modern JavaScript tools and techniques and the React UI framework.

 

[OfTheCross]

I just finally found out what Slack is.

It sounds like a corporate message board. I don't like it based on how the CEO described it to be.

I need my employees to get to work and not be chatting about Rick and Morty on Slack.

Also, I like the formality of email and the paper trail it allows

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

I just finally found out what Slack is.

It sounds like a corporate message board. I don't like it based on how the CEO described it to be.

I need my employees to get to work and not be chatting about Rick and Morty on Slack.

Also, I like the formality of email and the paper trail it allows

you couldn't sound more out of touch...but then again i have to remember how bureaucratic and behind the times most corporate culture is outside of certain regions/industries.

and slack isn't just for fukking around, every team or initiative i'm involved in has a slack channel. it creates transparent conversation, the behavior and psychology around messaging also dictates faster responses on slack than email. you can also share docs or attachments right there in the app. it leaves the more important, "formal" comms to email and all the quick and dirty stuff can be placed in slack

slack doesn't live up to all its promises of more productivity - it's another communication tool you're disrupted by or have to monitor - but it's not a toy or junk message board like the coli or some shyt.

 

[OfTheCross]

you couldn't sound more out of touch...but then again i have to remember how bureaucratic and behind the times most corporate culture is outside of certain regions/industries.

and slack isn't just for fukking around, every team or initiative i'm involved in has a slack channel. it creates transparent conversation, the behavior and psychology around messaging also dictates faster responses on slack than email. you can also share docs or attachments right there in the app. it leaves the more important, "formal" comms to email and all the quick and dirty stuff can be placed in slack

slack doesn't live up to all its promises of more productivity - it's another communication tool you're disrupted by or have to monitor - but it's not a toy or junk message board like the coli or some shyt.

eh...Slack sounds like a fix to a problem that didn't exist. It's seems like a good product, just not a necessary one.

and I disagree with the bolded simply because I'm a part of many groupchats already and email threads that I ignore. Just cause it's in an Instant Messenger format doesn't mean people are going to be more responsive

 

[phcitywarrior]

I used Slack some years back at an internship. Ehh...it’s cool, but honestly, I found it like another corporate messaging app.

You can have dedicated streams for different teams and different work flows, but by and large I don’t think it made our team more productive.

Our partners still wanted stuff emailed to them

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

eh...Slack sounds like a fix to a problem that didn't exist. It's seems like a good product, just not a necessary one.

and I disagree with the bolded simply because I'm a part of many groupchats already and email threads that I ignore. Just cause it's in an Instant Messenger format doesn't mean people are going to be more responsive

I can say most people respond to slack before email, and it’s usually because of the more digestible nature. That doesn’t mean the response is immediate, you’d get nothing done if you responded to every ping, but a lot of people check slack more often. I rarely have my slack messages ignored for a more than 8 hours whereas email can go days without a response, then you have to send a follow up, then wait for a response again.


And how is it trying to solve a problem that doesn’t exist? Communication and collaboration tools are integral to the workplace, it’s yet another option, especially with the growth in distributed teams. Like I said, I haven’t come across any workplace collaboration tool that’s mind blowing as they all do the same thing, but you seem to be writing slack off as if it’s nothing more than a social chat waste of times

 

[OfTheCross]

I can say most people respond to slack before email, and it’s usually because of the more digestible nature. That doesn’t mean the response is immediate, you’d get nothing done if you responded to every ping, but a lot of people check slack more often. I rarely have my slack messages ignored for a more than 8 hours whereas email can go days without a response, then you have to send a follow up, then wait for a response again.


And how is it trying to solve a problem that doesn’t exist? Communication and collaboration tools are integral to the workplace, it’s yet another option, especially with the growth in distributed teams. Like I said, I haven’t come across any workplace collaboration tool that’s mind blowing as they all do the same thing, but you seem to be writing slack off as if it’s nothing more than a social chat waste of times

my sentiments exactly. what's it solving that hasn't been solved already? I wish Slack the best, I just don't get the hype. I've admittedly never used it, but hearing the CEO speak and describe it left me wondering why we even need it. We've had IM apps at work for years, why is this one getting so much buzz?

 

[Capital Steez]

Slack is the future, better get with it now.

It’s ability to seamless integrate Google docs, tweets, articles, etc makes it a wonderful collaboration tool. I think there’s a component where developers can share code with one another fairly easily as well.

My company uses it, and I’d be hard-pressed to have to switch back to anything else at this point.

Zoom Video Conferencing + Slack should be must haves for a majority of modern organization moving forward. I can see how it can be difficult for enterprise level companies to implement, but any SMB should be leveraging it for internal communications.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

my sentiments exactly. what's it solving that hasn't been solved already? I wish Slack the best, I just don't get the hype. I've admittedly never used it, but hearing the CEO speak and describe it left me wondering why we even need it. We've had IM apps at work for years, why is this one getting so much buzz?

Because it’s the one that actually had end users love it, most places that were early adopters of slack did so because it was advocated for bottom up as opposed to a top down decision. I don’t personally live or die by it, but I absolutely cannot ignore the organic love that people have for slack. Never have I seen anyone love a corporate communication tool the way I’ve seen people love slack

 

[phcitywarrior]

Because it’s the one that actually had end users love it, most places that were early adopters of slack did so because it was advocated for bottom up as opposed to a top down decision. I don’t personally live or die by it, but I absolutely cannot ignore the organic love that people have for slack. Never have I seen anyone love a corporate communication tool the way I’ve seen people love slack

Dora, could it also be your network (Silicon Valley) that gives you this vantage to Slack and it's adoption in the workplace? My mentor is a GSB alum and it was within that network that he learned of slack and did a trial run at my internship a few years back.

I might actually ask if my team can adopt Slack

 

[Apollo Creed]

eh...Slack sounds like a fix to a problem that didn't exist. It's seems like a good product, just not a necessary one.

and I disagree with the bolded simply because I'm a part of many groupchats already and email threads that I ignore. Just cause it's in an Instant Messenger format doesn't mean people are going to be more responsive

Collab tools like Slack are tough to succeed if the org isn't all in, and its especially rough if orgs don't drop their other tools and go all in with it. We use slack but people still prefer to reach out to folks via Hangout chat & email. Much of our Slack channels are people posting dumb memes lol.