That’s all.

EDIT: Thank you all for detailing your experience with, and hatred for, this miserable product. Your display of solidarity is inspiring. Now, say it with me:

Fuck Microsoft

  • spicystraw@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Unpopular opinion: I actually like MS Teams

    Look, I know this might get downvoted, but Teams is… actually fine? Yeah, it’s not perfect, but it just works. The best part is that everyone and their grandma knows how to use it because it’s the corporate standard around here.

    I can’t tell you how much time I’ve saved not having to do the whole “can you hear me? let me try reconnecting… oh wait try updating your browser” dance that happens with other platforms. My company recently switched to Google Meet and honestly? It’s been a downgrade. Teams might not be the coolest kid on the block, but at least I’m not spending half my meetings troubleshooting audio and video issues.

    • Communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I hate teams because it consistently doesn’t just work

      missed notifications, screensharing

      i have little use of it and it constantly breaks

      • tormeh@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        1 month ago

        If you use something often you learn to handle the bugs and “it just works”. If you use a product rarely then it’s not gonna work as well

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Yeah, I have a similar experience, but it certainly lacks in features compared to other messengers. For example:

      • chat - formatting is terrible, Slack is way better here
      • groups - haven’t bothered figuring them out, in Slack making a channel or group message is super natural
      • resources - Teams eats RAM like crazy, Slack seems to be a bit more respectful
      • recent chats/messages - I can never find what I’m looking for, with Slack it’s simple

      I like the integration w/ Outlook because we’re basically forced to use it at work, but Slack is way better for almost everything that doesn’t interact directly w/ Outlook. So if it’s not a scheduled meeting, I and my team much prefer Slack.

      • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Gotta say, formatting of text isn’t a high priority for me… I’m pinging someone about a thing, I’m not writing a presentation. Adding emojis is about as much as I need 🤔

        And - to me - adding people to an adhoc group call / chat is straight forwards - and finding those conversations later is too

        But, I believe that there’s a few Corp IT settings that can be adjusted (we’ve recently lost the ability to add gifs for example), so maybe that’s what’s going wrong.

        But we’re a long way from AOL IM 😉

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          1 month ago

          I send code snippets, quote sections of linked documents, and provide in-line links pretty often, kind of like here on Lemmy. Slack isn’t as nice as Markdown, but it’s good enough, whereas Teams is a complete pain in in the butt and it completely butchers code blocks. That said, I’m a team lead, so I fairly frequently post about recent releases, security issues, or give cliff notes of recent meetings, so formatting for me matters quite a bit.

          And for calls, we have multiple logical groups of people, such as:

          • development teams
          • team leads (for all teams)
          • groups by location
          • groups by role (developers, QA, etc)
          • release groups - may be part of a team, multiple teams, or parts of multiple teams
          • automated alerts when prod has an issue

          And we have ad-hoc group chats where just a handful of people need to be involved, but they don’t fit cleanly into one of the established groups above (e.g. project manager wants to know a rough estimate for an upcoming project).

          Teams works fine, but I find it annoying to use.