[Periodic]

I'm an engineer at Asana. Trust me, they're full aware that performance is the #1 problem with Asana right now.

The major engineering focus at Asana right now is performance. It has been for a while and they're just starting to roll things out with the new, faster, backend and UI. I think you'll start to see significant improvements soon as the investments they've been making start to roll out. It's already started rolling out to some customers, and the API updates just got turned[1], on for example. Those changes are going to be making it into the UI soon.

If you don't like Asana performance, give it a few months and check back or keep an eye on their blog[2]. Big changes are coming on that front.

[1] https://asana.com/developers/feed/asana-fast-api-open-beta [2] https://blog.asana.com/

[sinatra]

Thank you for informing us about this. This gives me hope! I've seen Asana change UI multiple times in the past few years when all I want is for them to fix the following (in case you're listening):

- Performance: Lower resource usage and much faster loading of tasks from external links (like from emails).

- Get rid of the random "disconnected / reconnecting" notifications which disable the entire app for a few seconds.

- Allow adding attachments by drag-and-drop.

- Sometimes attachments don't preview till you reload the page.

[angry-hacker]

Thank you, that's good to hear. There is no reason for that fairly simple frontend make my laptop fan to take off.

Maybe I'm nostalgic but I miss web 1.0 apps. Just send a request and wait. Is that javascript bloat really necessary? I understand if it makes product feel faster, more usable. More often than not, it doesn't.

Also, it would be nice if asana would finally support android share intents.