Slack for Mac - A new, improved Slack desktop app for Mac

@chrisgiri It's there! You need to log into >1 team though - if you're only in one team, we collapse the team switcher to save space, which means we need to show the legacy top bar

@joshdance We think about doing things like this, but the UX gets complicated - people often want to have separate "work" and "friend" sets of logged-in teams, so we'd need a way to let people still do that, as well as the obvious security implications we'd have to review

@runsammrun While our current app has a long way to go before it will be a good example in this department (and believe me, it is a *huge* priority for us!), it is absolutely possible to write Electron apps that have the same performance profile as apps written in AppKit (at least to the level that users don't notice). Apps like WebTorrent and VS Code start _immediately_ and everything is instantaneous - it can be done! That being said, I personally think though that there's room in the ecosystem for more than one Slack client, similar to how Campfire had both Propane and Flint - one was fully featured and HTML, and one was stripped down and native. I'd love to see a 3rd party write a great macOS native app that does just the basics, the motorcycle to Slack.app's four-door sedan :)

@paulcbetts Thanks so much for hanging out on here and replying to us. Those are good points; I haven't personally used either of those. My personal experience with Electron has always felt it was a second class experience compared to something more native. In sing the beta so far though, it has come a long way! Also, I love the idea of a 3rd party contribution. You may be interested to know of Taut — it was a super ambitious project to rewrite Slack with AppKit. Sadly it never kicked off, and I think a large sticking point was that the developer couldn't get reassurance from Slack that he wouldn't be violating the ToS: https://www.kickstarter.com/proj... This is certainly beyond the scope of the original discussion and I don't want to detract from your launch today, but just wanted to share in case you hadn't seen that! Again, congrats :)

@runsammrun We have no interest in banning 3rd party Slack clients as long as they follow the ToS rules (i.e. don't permasave messages, don't restore messages that users delete, etc), and while we can't commit to Zero Breaking Changes Ever, we'll try our best to give you a platform you can rely on to build your app. One limitation that 3rd party apps have is that they are an Integration, which means that you might have problems with teams whose admins have disabled them, but we have a nice story around admins being able to whitelist these now as well