Yes! And the electron app 90% of the time can't work offline anyway (or often would be useless even if it tried). So it's just an extra 2 gigs of space wasted on my SSD for another copy of Chromium, instead of having the website be an "App" installed in Chrome or Edge and granted notification (etc) permission.

In my opinion, most things shouldn't bother to make an "app," and certainly shouldn't try to push their apps on me, unless they want to make an actual native app for their target platforms.

> In my opinion, most things shouldn't bother to make an "app," and certainly shouldn't try to push their apps on me, unless they want to make an actual native app for their target platforms.

It's as people have just forgotten that software used to integrate with the rest of the computer. I know people who install things like Netflix as apps just to have an icon on the taskbar.

Would the taskbar people be older people? There's something to be said about having a quick common place to get to the things you access the most. To that point, there are many many variations of launchers. I really wish webapps had taken off more, or having website create custom shortcuts for the various OSes so they can something like their red letter N logo on the desktop or wherever that just takes them to the website with a click rather launching the blue letter e then have to type something into a location bar or find it in some list of favorites. However, I think the sweet data analytics that apps allow companies to collect is too tempting and the web link just something to avoid.

I no longer have the app, but Slack uses <500MB of memory and .2% CPU in a tab in my browser. Back when I had the Slack electron app it was way more than that in use of system resources. I don't know what else to tell you. I don't know what other documentation would be interesting other than my observations made on my own equipment