I already see the electron apps coming!
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Any Microsoft app.
Logitech’s mouse and keyboard apps are garbage. LogiTune, Logi Options+. OSS alternative Mac Mouse Fix does everything needed and doesn’t need to run in the background constantly.
I hate it when a piece of hardware requires some closed source software for it to be used to its fullest. It would make sense for it to be open source sense the income comes the sale of the hardware always. I feel like at this point big tech companies just like bullying everyone imao.
The Amazon Alexa app for android is really slow and clunky for me. Especially irritating when you just want to turn things on or off or access a device quickly.
The Walmart app and the website itself are absolutely horrendous. You’d think I was using a Windows 98 PC and a dialup modem every time I try to use it I swear. No idea how it’s so shit and I don’t think I’ve ever used a less optimized website in my life beyond overloaded Lemmy instances.
So many restaurant/retail apps are so terrible (and they’re obviously just React wrappers running a bunch of bullshit) that half the time I reach for my laptop and wonder why I even have a smartphone.
Just use a browser. Amazon app is the only one that can arguably be justified. Even then, I know im trading my soul. Fight me, guys
The browser version for Walmart is honestly probably even worse than the app. I don’t know how they made a website so terrible.
What does the Amazon App have that the website doesn’t? I’ve just been using the website, now I’m wondering what I’m missing out on
I use it too, but came here to list it as my stupidly slow app also. You literally own AWS, how can a search for “Black T-shirt” take 40 seconds to load?! If you’re going to be an evil corporate monopoly at least be quick about it.
There’s probably always a reason for an app to be slow. Even if the developer intentionally made it slow on purpose to fuck with people, that’s still a reason. 😂
Mcdonalds app.
Discord. It takes like 12 seconds to start each time I launch it. Of course it’s plenty fast after that, so I guess it’s just the startup time that’s slow.
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Slack starts faster for me, but it’s also awful.
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Imo the frequent updates aren’t that bad since they aren’t “mandatory” in the sense that they force you to quit and reopen in order to have base functionality. And since I realistically don’t actually open discord more than once per day since it’s just in the background, the extra couple seconds isn’t really an issue.
Another problem with discord is CPU usage, it randomly decides to eat 40% of my i5-10400. Even while playing
Discord takes around a second to launch for me. Even after force-stopped.
Interesting.Discord takes about 6-8 seconds for me, but if you think that’s bad Steam takes 3 times that time for me.
My laptop boots up in the same amount of time as discord starting up. That is kind of sad.
Do you have a HDD?
If anything it’s pretty wild how fast computers start nowadays.
Gotta register the mandatory tracking modules for the CIA, Red Army, MI6, Mossad, and FSB.
Element for matrix is actually cheeks
Check out Element X: Ignition
Hopefully one day we’ll see something like Element X for desktop. Right now the only way to run it on PC is through the iOS compatibility thing that some MacBooks have, AFAIK.
Biggest offenders: MS teams on desktop. And even more so Epic Games store. Just ridiculously slow and laggy even on strong (Ryzen 9 5900HX, 32GB RAM, NVMe gen3 SSD) hardware. They almost take more time to open than Windows 11 (which is also slower thsn it should be). Buggy too.
Software that got much slower with a recent update:
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Steam. Seriously, it takes almost as much time to open ever since the last UI change as the Epic Games Store. At least it’s smooth once it’s opened, but I seriously want an alternative to launch my steam games.
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Firefox, specifically to open PDFs. There’s now a 5-second delay when opening any PDF, even a tiny one. It’s really frustrating honestly. It takes 90% of the time to open a 1 page PDF than to open a 10 page PDF.
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Windows file explorer. On battery on my gaming laptop, there’s a 1-2 second delay when I click anything on this app. Constantly seeing “working on it”. The Windows 10 file explorer was much faster. And the search is atrocious, use Everything by VoidTools instead.
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Some third party map apps on my Android phone used for public transportation start becoming really unresponsive after 10 seconds. It freezes my entire phone. This did not happen a couple months ago, and it really would’ve made getting around the city much harder if it wasn’t for the motorcycle I recently bought.
As for steam, have you tried GOG Galaxy at all? I use it as my main launcher and I love it.
I’ve heard of it but never actually used it. Is it much faster than Steam?
I think so but you do need to set it up with your steam account and connect all that which is a bit of set up. Once you have it up though you can connect all of your launchers to it and then just have everything in one spot. I use it mostly for my GOG, Steam and Game Pass games.
Windows file explorer. On battery on my gaming laptop, there’s a 1-2 second delay when I click anything on this app. Constantly seeing “working on it”. The Windows 10 file explorer was much faster.
Lmao I was really confused until that windows 10 comment. Because I was really confused what kind of mess your system was if the file Explorer lagged even though it doesn’t on some of the shittiest computers I own. I’ve so far refused to upgrade any of my systems to windows 11, and probably won’t until 10 gets a true EOL
Oops I should’ve told you that it is the Windows 11 version. That version is like 10-20% of the speed of the Windows 10 version but it has tabs
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Discord and Snapchat for Android. Both are laggy as fuck, and Discord can’t seem to fix their app’s many bugs.
Snapchat has always run great on Pixel. Google has worked with them many times to implement new features, though.
Like the Pixel visual core back in the day, the double tap the back to launch feature, etc.
Can’t really comment on other Android phones.
YNAB
Always takes like 20 seconds to load a super simple web app
I’m so glad I have the classic version. No subscription cost also helps.
Don’t you need to have flash to run it or something? Is it safe to still have flash on your computer in 2023? I think I got ynab on a steam sale, but it’s been awhile since I’ve opened it. And I refuse to pay for a subscription for something that used to be perfectly fine with a one time purchase.
Don’t you need to have flash to run it or something?
You do not, it’s another Adobe technology, though: Adobe Air. But I didn’t know that it’s still in development.
Is it safe to still have flash on your computer in 2023?
Notwithstanding that it’s Air, It’s not as if flash is doing something by itself. I guess if you randomly doubleclick SWF files you got via mail all the time, it might be an issue ;)
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Thanks for the clarification. I’ll look into it. Ynab (without subscription) is a great app. Maybe I’ll figure some kind of containment system for the Adobe air thing just to err on the safe side. Cheers!
Just FYI, you can’t buy it anymore. And for containment, you can enable the Sandbox feature in Windows (not sure if on Home) and use it, use something like Sandboxie, or simply start a Hyper-V VM.
I never saw the reason to upgrade either. The old desktop version is still going strong for me.
Apple Podcasts app on any platform. If you subscribe to like more than few dozen podcasts it runs at a snail’s pace even on the latest M1 and M2 devices from my experience. I turned off automatic downloads and it still ran slow. I don’t know why because a podcast app should be little different than an rss reader in theory, no?
Anyway I switched to Overcast last year and haven’t looked back.
Any mobile app in 2023 that still has a splash screen. Really?
They have to do something while they’re sending all your data top the mother ship.
Actually, in a lot of cases it’s probably because the app is just a wrapper around a web UI, via some bloated system like PhoneGap. That’s why your compass app is 128MB.
The “wrapper around a website” apps are pure trash. They’re so fucking buggy that it’s easier just to go to the actual website on a “real” computer.
There are UI guidelines to make apps show something however useless it might be. https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/loading
I guess most developers go for a logo rather than a spinner. Maybe they worry that folk will forget what app they tapped on?
Initially iOS prohibited splash screens and it was just the ported garbage apps that brought them over. I wish Apple would crack down on it because it’s disgusting.
Microsoft teams and discord. Both use react native.
That pokemon sleep app thing. I have no idea why an app showing 2D characters runs so slowly.
The only explanation I can come up with, is that it’s rendering everything in 3D, then putting a flattening filter on. Or that it’s mining the everloving shit out of everyone’s personal data on the phone.
Perhaps it is not putting a flattening filter butbusing a flattening shader?
