Slack Notification Fatigue, Electron RAM Overhead, and Steep Enterprise Pricing
Teams using Slack report notification overload from unread badges and channel mentions that disrupts focus. The Electron-based app carries significant RAM overhead causing slowdowns alongside IDEs. Enterprise pricing jumps are hard to justify for growing startups, and AI thread summaries occasionally hallucinate in technical discussions.
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