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#4 please! The days of GAIM/Pidgin felt like the golden age of chat apps, at least as far as the user experience was concerned. Just one centralized app could manage all the disparate protocols without ads or millions of analytic scripts tracking every mouse movement. And it barely took up system resources.

Also, you'd be surprised how fast 4gb gets used up by the time the OS, the browser, and various Electron apps take their cut. I can't browse the web while having Slack and Spotify open or things start thrashing. I think it's past the point of ridiculousness when a simple chat app takes more memory than a full featured IDE like IDEA.




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