many chat applications written in Electron, none of which are interoperable.
This is one of my pet peeves, and a noteworthy example because chat applications tend to be left running all day long in order to notify of new messages, reducing a system’s available RAM at all times. Bloated ones end up pushing users into upgrading their hardware sooner than should be needed, which is expensive, wasteful, and harmful to the environment.
Open chat services that support third party clients have an advantage here, since someone can develop a lightweight one, or even a featherweight message notifier (so that no full-featured client has to run all day long).
This is one of my pet peeves, and a noteworthy example because chat applications tend to be left running all day long in order to notify of new messages, reducing a system’s available RAM at all times. Bloated ones end up pushing users into upgrading their hardware sooner than should be needed, which is expensive, wasteful, and harmful to the environment.
Open chat services that support third party clients have an advantage here, since someone can develop a lightweight one, or even a featherweight message notifier (so that no full-featured client has to run all day long).
Open chat is good in theory but corporate overlords need control. We can ignore them, but that is a lot of laptops with a lot of memory