Curious to know what's awful about slack specifically. For me, I don't like to get lost in a bazillion channels, pins are not global (`saved for later` is), there is no personal message queues etc.

Do you have a laundry list?

Not so much a laundry listening more that it feels wrong as it is clearly an electron app and doesn’t feel like a native app and chooses to have its own conventions over embracing feeling like a native app.

I think that causes some of the issues you are mentioning.

Now I don’t personally see any communication app like slack that is any better than it. They all sort of suck but I feel like I had a better time with IRC apps back in the day than I do with modern communication apps.

I just pin it in my browser now. I don't really get anything out of using the app version.

That is an even worse experience IMHO.

What? How? It's the exact same experience, but without needing to run a heavy electron app.

These are...identical apps. That's the point of packaging with electron.

Because it is now a browser tab instead of a stand alone app. Running things in the browser is even worse that electron imho.