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If you dislike Slack, have you seen Skype for Business? Its text chat function disproves the existence of Cthulhu, since something so mind-bendingly horrible wo

by tormeh 10y ago

If you dislike Slack, have you seen Skype for Business? Its text chat function disproves the existence of Cthulhu, since something so mind-bendingly horrible would surely have awoken Him, if He existed. Imagine sending your colleagues single-line Word documents and you're basically there.

fiveoak 10y ago
Using Slack is like a dream compared to Skype for Business. Sure Slack may have some dumb default settings but Skype for Business finds a way to somehow sabotage 5-10 mins of most meetings with some sort of technology issue.
- erentz 10y ago
  Out of curiosity is this on a Mac? I've recently joined a new company where everybody loves to complain about Skype/Lync stating similar things to this. But I have zero issues, and had near zero issues at my prior company where it was widely used and improved remote working considerably. The only difference I can see is in this new company everybody is using MacOS (and admittedly when I tried it on Mac it was terrible).
fumplethumb 10y ago
Couldn't agree more. We use Skype for Business and its lack of obvious features is amazing. To give people an example, you cannot even send a link!
- criddell 10y ago
  Skype for Business is one of those terrible products that makes me want to speak to someone that helped build it and ask "what happened?"
- frandroid 10y ago
  How 1994!
- MichaelGG 10y ago
  Huh? I've only used Lync 2013 and before, but the IM client doesn't prevent links. It's basically like MSN Messenger with some enhancements, for internal use. At least it doesn't have the deliverability and ordering issues Skype has. Group chat isn't anything amazing with it but I haven't found it deficient. Maybe I'm using it wrong.
  - flukus 10y ago
    You can send links, but it's copy/paste functionality is "quirky".
    - fumplethumb 10y ago
      How do I send a link!! Seriously would love to know. I paste it in and I think it gets reformatted for the person on the other end. What is that??
adzm 10y ago
Skype for Business was bad enough I had to create Serious Business Cats in order to embed images... https://github.com/adzm/BusinessCats https://github.com/adzm/BusinessCats
rekoros 10y ago
By the way: we make a Skype for Business [Server] <> Slack bridge, if anyone is interested (see https://cdn.sameroom.io/enterprise-admins.pdf https://cdn.sameroom.io/enterprise-admins.pdf). The current solution requires persistent rooms to be enabled, a new AD account, and a VM running our proxy. Once set up though, you can do 2-way, real-time sync between Slack channels and SfB rooms (https://vimeo.com/174265102 https://vimeo.com/174265102).

by tormeh 10y ago

fiveoak 10y ago

Using Slack is like a dream compared to Skype for Business. Sure Slack may have some dumb default settings but Skype for Business finds a way to somehow sabotage 5-10 mins of most meetings with some sort of technology issue.

erentz 10y ago
Out of curiosity is this on a Mac? I've recently joined a new company where everybody loves to complain about Skype/Lync stating similar things to this. But I have zero issues, and had near zero issues at my prior company where it was widely used and improved remote working considerably. The only difference I can see is in this new company everybody is using MacOS (and admittedly when I tried it on Mac it was terrible).

fumplethumb 10y ago

Couldn't agree more. We use Skype for Business and its lack of obvious features is amazing. To give people an example, you cannot even send a link!

criddell 10y ago
Skype for Business is one of those terrible products that makes me want to speak to someone that helped build it and ask "what happened?"
frandroid 10y ago
How 1994!
MichaelGG 10y ago
Huh? I've only used Lync 2013 and before, but the IM client doesn't prevent links. It's basically like MSN Messenger with some enhancements, for internal use. At least it doesn't have the deliverability and ordering issues Skype has. Group chat isn't anything amazing with it but I haven't found it deficient. Maybe I'm using it wrong.
- flukus 10y ago
  You can send links, but it's copy/paste functionality is "quirky".
  - fumplethumb 10y ago
    How do I send a link!! Seriously would love to know. I paste it in and I think it gets reformatted for the person on the other end. What is that??

adzm 10y ago

Skype for Business was bad enough I had to create Serious Business Cats in order to embed images... https://github.com/adzm/BusinessCats https://github.com/adzm/BusinessCats

rekoros 10y ago

By the way: we make a Skype for Business [Server] <> Slack bridge, if anyone is interested (see https://cdn.sameroom.io/enterprise-admins.pdf https://cdn.sameroom.io/enterprise-admins.pdf). The current solution requires persistent rooms to be enabled, a new AD account, and a VM running our proxy. Once set up though, you can do 2-way, real-time sync between Slack channels and SfB rooms (https://vimeo.com/174265102 https://vimeo.com/174265102).