Seriously I think the Slack apps are really among the worst I have ever had to use. That is both on mobile (iOS) and desktop (Mac). It’s super slow thanks to Electron Desktop and super buggy on mobile. Connection Speed is really slow as well.

I just hate it.

I’ll take slack over ms teams.
Slack maybe slow but it works

Welcome to devRant.

It's not the technology, but protocol. They use socket connections, not http request response, which forces to it to be connected to the internet at all times. A connection drop would mean re-establishing it and doing n other things all over again.

We need a good replacement/alternative for frontend UI for electron apps. While it works, is slow as hell

@JonnyCodewalker well you can't complain, most UI framework for native platforms are are really hard to work with. Microsoft is doing good with UWP C# (although it even allows HTML frontends) but it's still lacking in a few places and not as simple as HTML+CSS. Plus none of the other options are cross platforms. Most native solutions don't have a GUI component and one that does uses HTML. Even xamarin is mostly logic code platform interdependent. For UI you still need a different solution

@flag0 I don’t see the need to go cross-platform at all. Slack is big enough to hire developers to build dedicated, client optimized apps instead I would say.

@evantreborn for slack, sure. But there are one man projects like devrant for desktop for example that benefit from it. Plus for Linux, stuff like Electron makes the app selection issue less serious

@flag0 yes of course :)
On the other hand I don’t mind a free app being slow in contrast to an app for which the company pays and relies on..

@Zezura thanks I will Look into that.