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Paul Betts@paulcbetts · Lead Desktop Dev at Slack Technologies
Hi Product Hunters, I'm Paul Betts, the lead developer of the Slack Desktop application. We're very excited to launch our new Mac application - it's faster, has a great new frameless look, and has a lot of under-the-hood improvements that, put together, make for a better experience with Slack From the technical side, this now brings together Slack on all t… See more
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Ouriel Ohayon@ourielohayon · appsfire, CEO/ isai (VC) co-founder
@paulcbetts i have been tested a beta version of slack lately which was already faster. is that any different?
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Paul Betts@paulcbetts · Lead Desktop Dev at Slack Technologies
@ourielohayon The Beta app you've been testing is in preparation for this release - folks on the beta will be updated automatically to 2.3.0
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Dave Cutler@cutlerdave · VP of Client Strategy, Influence Central
@paulcbetts @ourielohayon I had the same question as Ouriel. Should we remain on the beta for future updates, or revert back to the normal app?
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Paul Betts@paulcbetts · Lead Desktop Dev at Slack Technologies
@cutlerdave @ourielohayon Nope! Everyone on the beta is seamlessly migrated to the latest version, no need for a separate download (we actually shipped the final bits to beta users on last Friday)
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Nami Sung@nami · Product Marketing, Slack
@cutlerdave @paulcbetts @ourielohayon Hi! You can stay on the beta. You'll automatically receive new builds of the Slack app before they become public.
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Matthieu Varagnat@mvaragnat
@paulcbetts I love the new Slack app speed (and thanks for the CMD+1, CMD+2 pro-tip) but it's a big memory hog. With 8 teams logged in, after a while the app can occupy 1.5Go of RAM and needs to be shut down. Is this issue on your radar?
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Derek Nuzum@dnuzum · Product Manager | Web Developer
@mvaragnat Probably not much they can do besides 'nap' teams between usage, but that negates the quick switching. That's the downside of Electron apps. They are great for easy development to multiple platforms, but tend to be inefficient the more complex they get.
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Adrian Grant@adriangrant · In Stealth
@paulcbetts I'm on the 2.2.8 beta and haven't seen any messages to update
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James Campbell@jcampbell_05 · Founder, Bottr.co
@paulcbetts When will you add SSO ? One mainjor painpoint for me is if Slack ever forgets my teams I'm logged into or I switch machines they are lost forever. The only way I've got around this is by using Franz which uses your Web client which has SSO
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Paul Betts@paulcbetts · Lead Desktop Dev at Slack Technologies
@mvaragnat Memory usage is one of our highest priorities right now - we've made a lot of progress in this area (and remember, Chromium shares a lot of memory between processes, so if you're just looking at Activity Monitor you're going to get a skewed result), but our largest optimizations to make this much much better haven't shipped yet. Soon!
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George Perantatos@zorbadgreek · Lead Product Manager, Redfin
@paulcbetts Congrats Paul!
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Kevin Siskar@thesiskar · Managing Director, Founder Institute NY
@adriangrant @paulcbetts same...
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Ahmad Awais@mrahmadawais · Full Stack Dev— WordPress Core Developer
@paulcbetts Why does it still says, 2.3.0 Beta Channel (Under Pressure)
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Jody Glidden@jodyglidden · Founder and CEO, Introhive
@paulcbetts Voice calls stopped working when I upgraded to the beta. Known issue?
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Siddharth Kothari@siddharthlatest · Founder of Appbase Inc.
@paulcbetts @mvaragnat Congrats! Slack's high memory usage is one of our biggest concerns and I suspect there are many others on the same boat. Looking forward to the improvements here.
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@ChuckReynolds@chuckreynolds · build & track websites. cofounder Vuurr
@paulcbetts kk g2k
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