This would primarily be used for chats of lower priority than others. disable background updates for those groups until I explicitly “un-sleep” it. Would love to be able to “sleep” less important chats e.g. For someone like me, who uses Slack for 9 different groups, having each of those chats actively run leads to each spinning up a Slack Helper process that consumes a fair amount of CPU.

One thing I would LOVE to see is the ability to “sleep” a group, so that it didn’t have to be always running in the background. Didn’t have this issue before so I’m sure this is an optimization they just need to make.

However, noticed with recent update that the 'Slack Helper' processes are chugging CPU time, so much so that the fans on my top-spec Macbook Pro run on medium to high. Also a big fan of the styling, makes work chat less boring! Saves me a lot of time with its built-in features as well as the available integrations. Scientifically proven (or at least rumored) to make your working life simpler, more pleasant, and more productive.

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