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Its one of the worst tools I've ever used: 1. Markdown support is a realtime state machine that often gets confused and ends up formatting half your post diffe
by bbatha 8y ago
Its one of the worst tools I've ever used:
1. Markdown support is a realtime state machine that often gets confused and ends up formatting half your post differently than intended.
2. Its worse on memory than slack.
3. I like threading conversations, but microsoft leaves a lot to be desired. You can't link to the middle of a thread. Someone posting to an unrelated thread can make your whole pane jump.
4. The client has oodles of unused whitespace which means that you can only show 5-6 messages on 1080p screen.
5. Compounding 4, notifications, chat, and calling all involve swapping the main frame which interrupts the workflow. This is made worse by swapping views can take seconds.
6. Video quality is not good (though about the same as skype). But there were other restrictions that were annoying like needing to be in a call already to share your screen. Limited options for group chat.
7. Poor integration with existing Active Directory deployments. None of my companies email groups were able to be ported in because that would make a full team which isn't necessarily what you want.
8. Teams have all of their channels public or all of their channels private. There's no way to make a point of contact channel for a team. Combined with (7) it can be very difficult to seek out a group of people vs a specific individual.
- jelly3348 8y agoThat's not even the worst of it. Every message in Teams is actually an email. You can verify this by using Microsoft Graph Explorer.
- aitchnyu 8y agoTheir desktop notification and emails just inform that <person> has posted to <channel>, forcing me to open Teams just to see a thumbs up.