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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

I have a Jabra Headset (now retired) that literally has a MS Teams logo on the side and is market as "Teams compatible". As you might have guessed, Teams is the only VC app were I regularly have to switch betwen inputs to get the headset to work during a call.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The only thing it does better than Slack: A list of all my chats, most recent at the top, without any disappearing or grouped in some weird way. Slack annoys me.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I’m annoyed you still can’t do annotations with Teams.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Thank you! Finally someone has the guts to say this publicly

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

three trillion dollars

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Next you'll tell me the sky is blue.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

If we were on Teams right now I may not have received this snarky message.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Haha be thankful for what you have. I work at a pretty large financial institution and we still use Skype for Business. There is another messaging app we use but not everyone is granted access to it so I have to use both apps daily.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

You're using teams. Modern teams is built on Skype, which is why it's shit.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ah, they're all crap.

Came to Teams from Slack, some upsides, some downsides. It's a corporate communication tool, I don't use it because I think it's beautiful and elegant, I use it because I get paid money to use it.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I've had limited experience with slack, but the whole way conversations map to workspaces at least got to be confusing to me, and I would have liked an experience based on me as a user, rather than having my user span workspaces and have to juggle them to figure out how to talk to whoever I'm supposed to talk to at the time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

As with all things in business, good enough is king

I actually don't mind it being web based, there are a lot of web based tools that run perfectly fine and don't use that much resource

Teams is generally stable for me running the pwa in Microsoft edge nowadays too

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The biggest mistake was to make it a "hub" for all sorts of other uses in my opinion. It shouldn't be browser based, it should be native and just focus on chatting and calls, that's it. It could be so much faster and intuitive.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You mean like Skype for Business?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

You dare speak the name of the accursed one??

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's the Sharepoint of chat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ironically enough it creates Sharepoints for each of your groups.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's SharePoint all the way down

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I used to have tons of problems with it but for the last 6 months or year it seems to be working fairly well for me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Trying to play a video in a meeting results in 2009 levels of choppiness. It's insane.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

They really need to fix that. I hate that. Not even 2009 levels, it just straight up sounds like a dial-up modem.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 months ago (12 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

For me "it just works" doesn't ring true. Generally at least once a day, I join a call and it won't let me unmute, and I have to restart Teams.

Scrolling through history is obnoxiously slow.

The activity feed is mostly useless, spammed with stuff that isn't important and it's the only place that vaguely tries to keep track of 'Teams' conversations.

In my company, I've been added to about 70 Teams and it's pretty much impossible to interact with them, so as a result no one does, they all just start ad-hoc chats, since that's the only thing that vaguely gets managed in a way people can follow.

When going cross-organization, it's a crap shoot whether or not we can use text, voice, and screen share/remote control. I know this is generally due to obnoxious company 'security' policies and other solutions have it, but it is a frustration. One recent call with a particularly screwed up company had us on two different meeting platforms at once as well as on an old fashioned conference call, because text was only allowed on one platform, screen share on another, and no audio was allowed on either (despite both supporting all three).

Sure, Teams suffers, in part, because like all corporate tools it connects you to generally dysfunctional work communities. However it broadly does have it's own annoyances.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I hate teams because it consistently doesn't just work

missed notifications, screensharing

i have little use of it and it constantly breaks

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I went from teams/ms at another business to google at my current one. If they changed to Microsoft anything I'd burn the place down.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I haven't really used any other platforms so I can't really compare but I have encountered enough audio issues too. Especially with new Teams and bluetooth devices.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Same, Teams is terrible in terms of getting audio to work properly, our meetings still start with "can you hear me?" And often at least one person has to rejoin after pairing their bt headset again. But honestly everything else I've come across is even worse.

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