 I used slack today, it has been a year or two since I last had to, it took about 45 minutes to download the initial payload. I let it download the assets over breakfast, eventually purple bars started to show up, I just can't believe of they fucked up chat so bad. I'm dreading the next time someone asks me for a "quick chat" 16 comments
@klardotsh myeah, I had to create myself an account and the account creation goes through basically downloading slack..  @neauoire yeah have to use it for some work stuff and wow it's heavy. Even discord seems lighter, though also does that absolute joke of "progressive refinement" where it loads pretend chat to display before the actual chat.  @neauoire They used to have IRC access to all their channels a long time ago, but they shut it down, of course.  @neauoire just answer "sure, meet me on IRC" and give them a server and channel name. Make it their problem to figure out how to use old efficient chat systems that are light on your connection @metasyn web client yeah, I couldn't possibly download the application. Once I had downloaded the initial payload, where stuff started to show up, I did a couple of refreshes and after 10-15 minutes of that I managed to send messages, and 5 more refresh later I could see what people were saying.  |
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@neauoire do yourself a favor and use https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack or https://github.com/jpbruinsslot/slack-term next time you're forced to use that shit on a bad connection. I have problems with it even on "better" connections closer to civilization than y'all are, it's so bad.