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On the desktop side, definitely Microsoft Teams. It's insanely sluggish, even just going into a chat takes half a second or even a whole second and noticable time to load the UI. On a device that's completely overspecced for something like a chat app.
On the mobile side, Discord. It's quite alright on Desktop or in a Browser, but wow is the Android app bad. It's soooo sluggish, and half the time forgets what it wanted to load because it takes too long.
Microsoft teams and discord. Both use react native.
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.
Gotta register the mandatory tracking modules for the CIA, Red Army, MI6, Mossad, and FSB.
My laptop boots up in the same amount of time as discord starting up. That is kind of sad.
If anything it's pretty wild how fast computers start nowadays.
Discord takes about 6-8 seconds for me, but if you think that's bad Steam takes 3 times that time for me.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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
Any Microsoft app.
Another vote for shitty Discord from me. If there was any app I could just magically give a speed boost to, it's that.
Some days it annoys me enough where I just run it through Firefox/Web, especially on Linux where it's really janky.
The day we worked out (a decade ago) that we could stall discord by talking about world news was the day we moved to more secure communication.
I'd definitely love to move away from Discord, but unfortunately I've not been able to get my friends to move to anything else. Additionally, I have to use Discord for work (yes, it's strange - definitely wouldn't have been my decision) so I'd still be stuck using it even if my friends went over to something else.
Not like there is a better free alternative.
The alternative is a combination of multiple other programs some of which are associated with cost.
Discord and Snapchat for Android. Both are laggy as fuck, and Discord can't seem to fix their app's many bugs.
Logitechβs mouse and keyboard apps are garbage. LogiTune, Logi Options+. OSS alternative Mac Mouse Fix does everything needed and doesnβt 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.
Mcdonalds app.
Apple Podcasts app on any platform. If you subscribe to like more than few dozen podcasts it runs at a snailβs pace even on the latest M1 and M2 devices from my experience. I turned off automatic downloads and it still ran slow. I donβt 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 havenβt looked back.
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.
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. π
The McDonald's app on Android. I don't know if they use the same version of the app in the US and in Canada, but Jeeezus Christ on a bike the app is slow, both on WiFi and mobile data, and that's on a Pixel 7 Pro.
The crypto.com app. I mean maybe the reason is "security", but it takes like 10-20 seconds to view my credit card details.
YNAB
Always takes like 20 seconds to load a super simple web app
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.