[sigi45]

Slack is Electron. Slack is installed on many laptops. Slack App just sucks and wastes real resources.

[rkangel]

Genuine question - why do people install the Slack App? I haven't in ages, I just use the web-app and am very happy.

[fedesilva]

At least for me, webapps are just 1 in a thousand tabs open in 500 browser windows (ok, I exaggerate a bit). For an app with it's own window I can just hit a shortcut and said app gets focus. Disclaimer, not an Elektron fan.

[fauigerzigerk]

Same for me. I'm so surprised that browser makers still haven't solved this particular problem in spite of all browsers now being multi process.

[ronsor]

use `chrome --app`

[fauigerzigerk]

That doesn't work on macOS.

[lojack]

Different screen share features only work in the app. I'd use the web app if all I needed was chat, but I'm on video calls and using screen share constantly.

[sigi45]

I use slack on my second screen.