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Slack is not a good fit for community chat

There, I said it … and a lot of other people said it before me (here, here, here, here, … and the list goes on and on). Before I proceed with my argument, I would like to say that, slack is great product (even if the client consumes lots of memory) and works very well […]

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The wave of bloated desktop apps

Some time ago I complained about a mindset that was producing a form of “bloated” software (software that uses a disproportionate amount of resources to accomplish “simple” tasks). Later I even posted an example of a popular chat application consuming a ridiculous amount of memory, given the its purpose. One recent example of this phenomenon […]

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An heavy chat application

Following up the quote I pointed some time ago in an entry entitled “Bloat”, I will let here one good example. I know Slack it is a great application and it has some complex features, yet I don’t see any reason for any chat program to steal almost 900 Megabytes of my computer’s memory. Note: […]