Looking at the status page vs the history. They list the Messaging as being the affected service out of 10 other services. Seems like a pretty lynchpin service and also the one affected the most just eyeballing the last few incidences in history.

https://status.slack.com/ https://status.slack.com/calendar

Did a hard refresh of the application, data in channels and threads will not load. At least the status page was updated reasonably quickly!

off-topic: why does slack keep a few gb cache in mac app? most of it is indexeddb data I guess. what kind of data can be held that is really worth being this big?

It's not just the Mac app. My local storage for slack.com on Firefox currently takes 1.5 GB. It goes up with time and Slack takes longer and longer to open, so every so often I go to preferences and clear it out.

The upside of a larger cache is that everything is more responsive and old threads load faster. What’s the downside?

That's not what I'm asking. I wonder what a messaging app does with that much cache. and this is a pretty slow app despite the cache

You can still purchase a laptop with 32GB and 64GB of disk.

That’s a pretty large portion of it for a chat app.

Does it scale based on disk size or does it just grow forever?

It will be in the cache directory on MacOS, which is pruned by the OS when it thinks space is low.

Even when fully functional Slack's threading is completely broken for me! Ugh.

Half of my interactions with the Slack UI are desperate attempts to not accidentally lose notifications, particularly through threads. "Mark Unread" is the most frequent command I use I think.

it's wild that in 2022 we don't have better patterns for this

I do think there are relatively easy things slack can do to improve this experience, but I also think that notification and task management is unsolved and mostly unattempted

Yep I missed discussion about an important meeting today because it occurred in a thread in a channel I don't normally talk in. I like the idea of threads but I feel like you miss so much of the conversation if you're not actively looking out for them.