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by grokas 3246 days ago
Maybe use Slack in browser?
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While I have not tried the electron version, I feel that my seven slack tabs slow down my firefox noticeably. Especially during startup and after connectivity issues.

While the mobile app is at least responsive on Android, I have problems, too, for example with messages from push notifications that don't show up when opening them.

Subjectively, Slack performed great in the early days but has gotten worse over time.

Tried that, doesn't help a whole lot (the desktop app is a glorified Webkit wrapper).
But it's chromium serving local content. That is somewhat of a difference.

I run Slack only in Safari. It works significantly better than the desktop app.

I don't think serving local content would explain why the desktop app insists on munching through all the available RAM (on a single team, no less!), something else must be going on. But that's actually a pretty good suggestion - I'll try the web version, thanks.
Used to be some time ago when downloads were ~5-7mb. Nowadays it uses Electron:

/Applications/Slack.app/Contents/Frameworks/Electron Framework.framework/Versions/A/Electron Framework

Yup. A glorified webkit wrapper.
CTRL R works in the "native" app.