Pain point · Performance · Blocks work
Asana's interface uses excessive memory
5 source threads · first seen 2016-01 · last seen 2023-01
Summary
The author criticizes Asana as an example of a large JavaScript application with high memory use, forcing the tab to remain open and imposing a constant system-resource cost.
Evidence
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“slack, teams, asana, jira - fucking everything basically, using more RAM each than my first computers had disk space”
“needing to use more than one webshit thing at a time (heavier versions of gmail, Jira, Asana, Slack)”
“Jira, Asana, both major offenders. Can easily eat many hundreds of MB of memory”
“I'm looking at you, Asana!”
“Asana is the worst”