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by kylehotchkiss 3033 days ago
I just want something between this and Slack's mac app, which sometimes doesn't want to load on even Starbucks wifi. Ideally a GUI app that can load messages on airplane wifi would be amazing. Every time I try to open slack on an airplane it just sits there loading and loading and loading.

Maybe one day!
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sethhochberg 3033 days ago
Oh man, that "you can't even see the messages that were in RAM when your computer went to sleep because we're doing... something... with your slow network" behavior is infuriating. I work a lot on airplanes and mobile hotspots, and it comes up depressingly often.
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52-6F-62 3033 days ago
Somebody could probably earn a lot of 'coffees' just building a C++ or Python Gtk UI that works with Slack's API, yeah?

It couldn't be that rough, could it? I've done little interacting with the API's outside of simple bot integrations for a little fun.

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pimeys 3032 days ago
I'd love to try my luck with this, but I'd also love to use Rust and QT. I need to do a bit of research is this even possible yet, or is it going to be fun at all...
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52-6F-62 3032 days ago
Wow did I misfire! I meant Qt! Thank you
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LocutusOfBorges 3033 days ago
Eul seems like it might fit that requirement:

https://eul.im/

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adamrezich 3033 days ago
>Windows support will be out in late February

glances at watch

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zimpenfish 3032 days ago
I tried the latest Mac version. Crashed instantly I tried to log into Slack. Maybe in a few revisions it'll work but for now, it doesn't seem to.
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sincerely 3032 days ago
Yeah, I'm looking forward to checking in with eul in about six months, the idea seems promising but it's nowhere near usable (for my personal value of usable) yet
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