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> "This means that if someone does @${channel_name} you will get an alert. MS have not implemented muting as a feature. Secondly, for all those automatic/admin

> "This means that if someone does @${channel_name} you will get an alert. MS have not implemented muting as a feature. Secondly, for all those automatic/admin channels, you can’t unsubscribe yourself (or at least not with the default policies). Brilliant, isn’t it? Unavoidable alerts that any idiot on any channel can annoy people with." At my last job we figured out the fastest way to get your company off Teams: add the CEO to a chatty channel.

nevir 7y ago
Our CEO gave up on slack long ago. Email is the best way to get their attention.
- giancarlostoro 7y ago
  Slack and Teams are different. Slack has muting. Teams does not.
  - mullingitover 7y ago
    I'll note that we never actually acted on this plan. The idea came up when we were comparing the two. The designated Microsoft Guy at the office was pushing Teams, because it's free as in beer. However, the inability to mute or leave a channel was a big 'wtf' and I'm honestly shocked that two years later they still haven't fixed it. It was a show-stopper for us back then and still would be now.
    - arethuza 7y ago
      Why wouldn't you just Hide a Team you aren't interested in? I've hidden most of the Teams in our organisation because they aren't relevant to me.
  - deleted 7y ago
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  - simonebrunozzi 7y ago
    I guess not all CEOs know what muting a channel means.
  - NicoJuicy 7y ago
    Teams has mute on channels
    - redxdev 7y ago
      On individual channels it does, on an entire team it doesn't. You can mention a team itself (rather than a channel in that team) and there's no way to mute that afaik.
- atoav 7y ago
  And to be honest Email is ok. Email is like writing a letter and it should be. You write it, think about it send it. In a chat you just type and send as you think and decoding that stuff in hindsight is more work. I’d rather get one focused and well thought out mail than 20.messages of which a quarter shouldn’t even bother me. There is no real reason why you couldn’t write Slack messages as well composed as an email. But nearly nobody does.
mysterydip 7y ago
Reminds me of the NET SEND command in windows 2000-xp. Allowed sending a popup text message to specific (or all with a wildcard!) machines on a network. Sure there were times where such a feature would be convenient ("server going down for maintenance, please save your work", etc), but overall ripe for abuse. They disabled it in a service pack and took it out altogether in subsequent versions.
- mullingitover 7y ago
  Hah! I did this one at a call center job back in the day, not believing that their sysadmins would possibly leave it open. I was wrong. I did something like "NET SEND lol" and it sent out a popup to every workstation on the network. Hundreds of them. Good times.
- gitgud 7y ago
  Once students learnt the NET SEND command, the school was plagued with popups... IT security is an evolving thing I guess.
- girvo 7y ago
  I caused havoc in high-school with that. And finding a way of executing binaries inside Novell's Netware thing, via the "Open" dialog within any Office application's Visual Basic macro editor haha
  - VvR-Ox 7y ago
    Haha, me too :D Wrote a batch script that used a wildcard - it took them a while to find it and I was very lucky the only 3 persons who knew who it was wouldn't tell anyone. One was a teacher and I am thankful until today that he didn't screw up my life with telling this.
  - throwaway_391 7y ago
    Renaming executables to explorer.exe worked with the application whitelisting solution my school implemented. That's how we ended up with 8-player age of empires 2 deathmatches after hours ;)
mattlutze 7y ago
There's a notifications setting in my version of Teams that allows you to turn on / off a notification when a new thread is started, per channel. There is also the "Channel mentions" setting, allowing you to turn off @${channel_name} messages.

nevir 7y ago

Our CEO gave up on slack long ago. Email is the best way to get their attention.

giancarlostoro 7y ago
Slack and Teams are different. Slack has muting. Teams does not.
- mullingitover 7y ago
  I'll note that we never actually acted on this plan. The idea came up when we were comparing the two. The designated Microsoft Guy at the office was pushing Teams, because it's free as in beer. However, the inability to mute or leave a channel was a big 'wtf' and I'm honestly shocked that two years later they still haven't fixed it. It was a show-stopper for us back then and still would be now.
  - arethuza 7y ago
    Why wouldn't you just Hide a Team you aren't interested in? I've hidden most of the Teams in our organisation because they aren't relevant to me.
- deleted 7y ago
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- simonebrunozzi 7y ago
  I guess not all CEOs know what muting a channel means.
- NicoJuicy 7y ago
  Teams has mute on channels
  - redxdev 7y ago
    On individual channels it does, on an entire team it doesn't. You can mention a team itself (rather than a channel in that team) and there's no way to mute that afaik.
atoav 7y ago
And to be honest Email is ok. Email is like writing a letter and it should be. You write it, think about it send it. In a chat you just type and send as you think and decoding that stuff in hindsight is more work. I’d rather get one focused and well thought out mail than 20.messages of which a quarter shouldn’t even bother me. There is no real reason why you couldn’t write Slack messages as well composed as an email. But nearly nobody does.

mysterydip 7y ago

Reminds me of the NET SEND command in windows 2000-xp. Allowed sending a popup text message to specific (or all with a wildcard!) machines on a network. Sure there were times where such a feature would be convenient ("server going down for maintenance, please save your work", etc), but overall ripe for abuse. They disabled it in a service pack and took it out altogether in subsequent versions.

mullingitover 7y ago
Hah! I did this one at a call center job back in the day, not believing that their sysadmins would possibly leave it open. I was wrong. I did something like "NET SEND lol" and it sent out a popup to every workstation on the network. Hundreds of them. Good times.
gitgud 7y ago
Once students learnt the NET SEND command, the school was plagued with popups... IT security is an evolving thing I guess.
girvo 7y ago
I caused havoc in high-school with that. And finding a way of executing binaries inside Novell's Netware thing, via the "Open" dialog within any Office application's Visual Basic macro editor haha
- VvR-Ox 7y ago
  Haha, me too :D Wrote a batch script that used a wildcard - it took them a while to find it and I was very lucky the only 3 persons who knew who it was wouldn't tell anyone. One was a teacher and I am thankful until today that he didn't screw up my life with telling this.
- throwaway_391 7y ago
  Renaming executables to explorer.exe worked with the application whitelisting solution my school implemented. That's how we ended up with 8-player age of empires 2 deathmatches after hours ;)

mattlutze 7y ago

There's a notifications setting in my version of Teams that allows you to turn on / off a notification when a new thread is started, per channel. There is also the "Channel mentions" setting, allowing you to turn off @${channel_name} messages.