It's just the webapp. If we want the webapp we use a browser.
Slack desktop app is built with electron and works much better than the web app in my experience. So no it's not actually always that simple.
It could be that simple. They just hinder their own website to get you to download the app.
You really believe that? It would be easier for them to maintain only the website, so this really doesn't make sense to me.
Dev here.
Yeah that's how it works.
I'm a web developer. I think there's a misunderstanding here. The person I responded to said that slack purposely made the web version worse than the desktop app, which I'm doubting.
Yes, how are you doubting that? Is your company not big enough to want to pull users to a specific platform so you have to cripple the others?
Because I have used both versions of slack and they're almost exactly the same. The desktop version only works better imo because of small factors such as having its own window so it does not get buried in tabs, and the notification options are (or at least were) more robust. Have you not used the two versions?
I don't really understand your comments. Are you implying that there would be an advantage for slack to "cripple" the web version, when they are essentially running probably 99% of the same code in the electron version? They're never going to get rid of the web version, and if you've used slack for ~9 years like I have, you can easily observe they're actually one of the few app makers out there to make mostly positive changes to their app. They aren't suddenly going to make the web app shitty.
Also, obviously yeah when it makes sense to, app makers in general make the web app version shitty on purpose. Reddit mobile for example. But just because that's a thing in the world doesn't mean it is what slack is doing..not sure why you seem to be implying it's a universal practice.
You just admitted the desktop version works better and that there is a 1% code difference
Slack is one of those apps which lags in a week on any hardware, it might be better than web version but it still sucks ass compared to fucking ICQ clients. Source: using it in the company I work for, for about 7 years already.
I don't often have trouble with slack being slow, or buggy. Been using it like 9 years myself. Interesting you're comparing slack to icq. Are you referring to a current version of icq, or the one that existed in the early 2000s?
I am not sure I understand comparing an app designed to do video/audio chat seamlessly, threaded conversations, channels, filesharing, plus has dozens of subtle nice features that make for a rich experience and a... Chat app, that worked fine for sending plaintext messages but didn't really do anything else.
I compare it to qip or similar with voice calling support about 10 years ago. But still, Slack loses to pretty much anything on the market regarding performance, be that Element, Telegram, Skype or even Discord. It literally battles with biggest IDEs lol
Not my experience. Not sure what qip is either
Now that Chromium has persistent File System Access permission support, what benefit does Electron have over a PWA other than "Native-looking" menu bars?
Yeah, I was dissapointed, but at least it is a controlled browser and not reliant on your normal browser which could change or have malicious extensions
This. Its webapp with more persistent storage maybe. If the Browsers could integrate this, it would be a gamechanger.
I am also very sure that Chrome preloads google. com to make it seem to "load faster". Its all just preloading or persistent storage
It's just the webapp. If we want the webapp we use a browser.
Slack desktop app is built with electron and works much better than the web app in my experience. So no it's not actually always that simple.
It could be that simple. They just hinder their own website to get you to download the app.
You really believe that? It would be easier for them to maintain only the website, so this really doesn't make sense to me.
Dev here.
Yeah that's how it works.
I'm a web developer. I think there's a misunderstanding here. The person I responded to said that slack purposely made the web version worse than the desktop app, which I'm doubting.
Yes, how are you doubting that? Is your company not big enough to want to pull users to a specific platform so you have to cripple the others?
Because I have used both versions of slack and they're almost exactly the same. The desktop version only works better imo because of small factors such as having its own window so it does not get buried in tabs, and the notification options are (or at least were) more robust. Have you not used the two versions?
I don't really understand your comments. Are you implying that there would be an advantage for slack to "cripple" the web version, when they are essentially running probably 99% of the same code in the electron version? They're never going to get rid of the web version, and if you've used slack for ~9 years like I have, you can easily observe they're actually one of the few app makers out there to make mostly positive changes to their app. They aren't suddenly going to make the web app shitty.
Also, obviously yeah when it makes sense to, app makers in general make the web app version shitty on purpose. Reddit mobile for example. But just because that's a thing in the world doesn't mean it is what slack is doing..not sure why you seem to be implying it's a universal practice.
You just admitted the desktop version works better and that there is a 1% code difference
And?
Slack is one of those apps which lags in a week on any hardware, it might be better than web version but it still sucks ass compared to fucking ICQ clients. Source: using it in the company I work for, for about 7 years already.
I don't often have trouble with slack being slow, or buggy. Been using it like 9 years myself. Interesting you're comparing slack to icq. Are you referring to a current version of icq, or the one that existed in the early 2000s?
I am not sure I understand comparing an app designed to do video/audio chat seamlessly, threaded conversations, channels, filesharing, plus has dozens of subtle nice features that make for a rich experience and a... Chat app, that worked fine for sending plaintext messages but didn't really do anything else.
I compare it to qip or similar with voice calling support about 10 years ago. But still, Slack loses to pretty much anything on the market regarding performance, be that Element, Telegram, Skype or even Discord. It literally battles with biggest IDEs lol
Not my experience. Not sure what qip is either
Now that Chromium has persistent File System Access permission support, what benefit does Electron have over a PWA other than "Native-looking" menu bars?
Yeah, I was dissapointed, but at least it is a controlled browser and not reliant on your normal browser which could change or have malicious extensions
This. Its webapp with more persistent storage maybe. If the Browsers could integrate this, it would be a gamechanger.
I am also very sure that Chrome preloads google. com to make it seem to "load faster". Its all just preloading or persistent storage