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Hoping the Microsoft Teams devs are following these comments. I've been a long time Slack user in multiple large orgs, and I'm using Teams in my current role fo
by binarysneaker 6y ago
Hoping the Microsoft Teams devs are following these comments. I've been a long time Slack user in multiple large orgs, and I'm using Teams in my current role for the first time with multiple teams, total headcount around 100.
Things that need love -
1. The UX. The navigation bar, tabs along the top of the chat window, separate chats and groups, ugh. In Slack, the navigation panel is tidy and chats and groups are in one consistent place, the chat header is minimal and functional.
2. Message formatting. Pasting code into a message doesn't automatically change the style to monospaced, and there's no syntax highlighting like in Slack.
3. Pasting a picture or attachment into the chat waits for another ENTER keypress before sending, presumably so that you can add some text alongside the picture. This seems counter intuitive, compared to the behaviour in messaging apps (whatsapp, fb, signal, etc).
4. Experience parity across all versions/platforms. It bugs me that Teams for Web is incapable of video and phone calls. But worse, the Linux version doesn't have feature parity with the Windows version. Useful tools such as remote control and video call background blurring don't exist.
5. More emojis! There are so many times when I've tried to use an emoji and it's just not there. Slack has this pretty well covered, as does every other messaging app out there.
6. @channel usage. If I type @channel, when the message is posted, it's converted to the channel name. So I type "Good morning @channel, just to let you know...", Teams will convert the message to "Good morning General, just to let you know..." - that makes no sense when you're reading it! Who's "General"!?
7. The General channel. WHY?! I can make it read only, I can't hide it, I can't rename it. UGH.
8. Sending a new message. I can type Ctrl+/chat name to start a new message, or click the icon (WHY is right aligned at the top of the navigation pane?). This should be as easy as Ctrl+K name messsage, like in Slack.
9. The linux version seems to run 2 threads, both using around 800mb of RAM. I wouldn't mind so much, but one of threads seems to be just for the system taskbar icon.
- ilrwbwrkhv 6y agoI find the fact it waits for enter to be pressed before sending the photo very intuitive.
- screye 6y agoIf anything I strongly prefer it
- binarysneaker 6y agoEach to their own. Slack allows you to set your preference, Teams doesn't.
- Craighead 6y agoMS Teams is the best front end to SharePoint ever designed. Take from that what you will.
- prepend 6y ago10. Clicking on an office link always opens in a weird Teams viewer instead of word or excel or whatever. No right click option to copy link.
- cuddlybacon 6y ago11. If I download an image from the internet and post it into a chat, there will frequently be a popup that says "A file named ui.jpg already exists.". Why would I care what the name on the backend server is? Just rename it and let me send it. 12. Users over 40 in my Teams instance seem to have a hard time distinguishing between the UI for starting a new thread and replying to an existing thread. 13. It's system for highlighting messages you haven't seen is pretty janky. It frequently highlights my own relpies as messages I haven't seen. 14. If someone posts a message to any thread in the current channel when I am typing a message, the message editing box will lose keyboard focus. 15. It uses its own notification system instead of the system one. I basically have to have the left half of the window always visible so I can manually check for visual indicators in the app itself. 16. Sometimes you can pause gif playback, sometimes you can't.
- beart 6y agofor 11 - Pretty sure this is because one drive is the backing store for all files uploaded. You should be able to go to open your one drive account and view every file you've ever uploaded.
- mynameisvlad 6y agoWhat do you mean by #4? I've used the web-based teams for video calls with screen sharing even, with no problem for years now. Agree on remote control and blurring, it's also not available on Web.