<story><title>Slack was down</title><url>https://status.slack.com/2019-07/b31a6510b8caabcc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>allana</author><text>2GB of RAM use for 6 open tabs in Slack is pretty awful, their desktop client has set the bar to compete with Slack on performance very low.&lt;p&gt;This abusive resource usage has created a dislike of Slack among a subset of its users.</text></item><item><author>nixgeek</author><text>Wish we wouldn’t use such language, “sucks less” is highly subjective and your opinion but we don’t need to disparage Slack in order to make a point that alternatives like Zulip are available.&lt;p&gt;Seems like especially poor tone on an outage thread... “Don’t kick them while they’re down” or something?</text></item><item><author>anaphor</author><text>If you&amp;#x27;re a community driven project or organization using Slack, then take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zulipchat.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zulipchat.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; for something that sucks less, and is open source software. I&amp;#x27;ve found it much more pleasant to use and less buggy than Slack.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timdorr</author><text>They actually just fixed that in 4.0: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;slackhq.com&amp;#x2F;introducing-a-more-efficient-slack-desktop-experience&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;slackhq.com&amp;#x2F;introducing-a-more-efficient-slack-deskt...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m currently sitting at 400MB total usage (including helpers) for 4 workspaces.</text></comment>
<story><title>Slack was down</title><url>https://status.slack.com/2019-07/b31a6510b8caabcc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>allana</author><text>2GB of RAM use for 6 open tabs in Slack is pretty awful, their desktop client has set the bar to compete with Slack on performance very low.&lt;p&gt;This abusive resource usage has created a dislike of Slack among a subset of its users.</text></item><item><author>nixgeek</author><text>Wish we wouldn’t use such language, “sucks less” is highly subjective and your opinion but we don’t need to disparage Slack in order to make a point that alternatives like Zulip are available.&lt;p&gt;Seems like especially poor tone on an outage thread... “Don’t kick them while they’re down” or something?</text></item><item><author>anaphor</author><text>If you&amp;#x27;re a community driven project or organization using Slack, then take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zulipchat.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zulipchat.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; for something that sucks less, and is open source software. I&amp;#x27;ve found it much more pleasant to use and less buggy than Slack.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DangerousPie</author><text>I can honestly say that I have never checked or cared about how much RAM Slack uses. Or any other software for that matter. It&amp;#x27;s certainly not an issue that I&amp;#x27;d use as the basis for deciding which team communication tool to use.</text></comment>