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So to have a productive comment on all this teams shit (and slack shit too IMHO)
What is currently the best self hosted solution?
I used to habe nextcloud with only office, offering and allowing multiple users to work simultaneously on documents, next cloud itself rocked, but what about video and audio calls, what about chat? Anything out there that is integrated easily in next cloud?
Teams is the fuckin worst.
At this point I prefer to Skype before I'd teams, and I hate Skype with a passion already.
Call quality is abysmal compared to meet, it's a continuous crash, feature suddenly inexplicably doesn't work, and what not more. There is always somebody who can't get video turned on all of the sudden, always effin around with audio and this morning o cut off a teams call and decided to call the person by phone because that at least worked.
Fuck. Teams.
We're so tightly integrated with the M$ ecosystem at my work, it's painful. My department has even been going out of it's way to self host (F)OSS alternatives where we can, just to avoid as much of the cludge as possible.
Has anyone tried out the new Teams integration feature that Mattermost recently rolled out for Enterprise customers? If so, any good?
If we can seamlessly sync calls/meetings from Teams into Mattermost and ditch the Teams client for our day-to-day comms, I might have a fighting chance at convincing my supervisor to pivot my department.
which one? classic? teams for work? teams for personal?
New Classic Teams for Work, Professional Edition (New)
for enterprise!
sometimes it takes minutes to load the calendar, only to still fail
We have a new manager and she is forcing us to use the calendar and planner in Teams and my productivity has plummeted because of it.
I have to use Teams as a student and we never even do video calls, just sharing files, and there are so many issues we have with it such as bugginess and no one understanding the UI.
Okay but could they please hide the microphone settings a little deeper under menus that are already hard to find such as whatever makes the PowerPoint presentation go full screen? No one has ever figured out that one. It's just that we love the resonance of that beautiful feedback sound. As soon as one of the old farts joins the meeting, we know that beautiful sound that slices thru all mosquitoes in the area is coming. But all too soon someone walks through the procedure for turning off the microphone. If we could have it for another 10 minutes without automatically detecting it like almost any other software from the 90's would, that would be sweet!
Don't forget to change the sound setting location to different tabs every other week too to keep you on your toes.
? You can just mute someone in the call if they can't find the button, which is literally in the top right of the screen, right next to the share and leave buttons.
Maybe my experience is different because I use Teams exclusively on my work Mac, but it tends to work better for calls than anything else I've used (Zoom, Slack, Google Meet). I've literally never had issues in my end with the desktop app. Maybe the webapp is different?
That said, I hate teams. The chat function sucks, especially when trying to post code snippets, or really any form of formatted text. And for some reason, some of our business-y types refuse to use Slack, so I'm stuck having to deal with two separate chat systems at work. But the video has pretty much never given me problems.
