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by longnguyen 2580 days ago
Honest question: would you buy a third party native Slack client?

I started an open source Slack client but was struggle to find tractions. Yes the Slack electron client is bad, I hate it with passion but it just works. And most of the users I surveyed think so too. Either they’re not using Slack at all, or they just don’t care if it’s electron/web-based/slow (Stockholm syndrome?).
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hoffs 2580 days ago
What does Stockholm syndrome have to do with people being okay with the performance of it. The only people that mostly have issue with slack are the devs themselves who are aware of electron.
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longnguyen 2580 days ago
I'm not entirely sure, that why I put a question mark on it. Some of the users I surveyed are devs themselves and to my surprise, they think Electron is good. I've just read this article[1] and I think it's best to describe the situation of being a JS dev

[1]: https://medium.com/@s_27669/i-am-definitely-maybe-suffering-...

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benatkin 2580 days ago
Slack is against alternative clients, just like Twitter is. So it's risky to build a client because they can limit API access.
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