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We have both Slack and Teams. Almost everyone I know who has an option picks Slack.

by coldcode 6y ago

StavrosK 6y ago
I've never used Teams, but if everyone prefers Slack over it, it must be horrible.
- Galanwe 6y ago
  Teams is a nightmare. Instead of just creating the simple chat that everyone was just asking for, they went full PhD and created a mix between a chat and a forum. A Teams "channel" has counter intuitive behavior, the messages you send are more like forum threads, users can reply to them, and when that happens it reorders the whole messages to put that one at the bottom. It makes it impossible to "catch up" on a channel since people will happily reply to any messages so the ordering is completely random. There is also a completely counter intuitive distinction between "groups chats" and "channels". Teams is also the only chat service I know where there is an actual limit on the number of non-public channels you can have. After 30 channels have been created, you're doomed. Want to remove an existing channel to make room for a new one? Nope, you cannot remove a channel, only "archive" them. Archived channels are removed after 30 days and there is no way to force their removal early. So basically if you reach 30 channels you have to wait minimum 30 days to create a new one. Did I mention the UI is slow as hell, and half the screen space is used by unnecessary large padding between messages? I am rarely able to have more than 3/4 messages displayed on a 23" screen. The only positive point of Teams is integration with outlook 365 and meetings. It works really well, quality is good, reliable, nice UI, présentation mode, screen share, etc
- znpy 6y ago
  There are a lot of other adjectives between "slack-like" and horrible. I've used teams in the past and it's not that bad. It's a valid alternative to slack imho.
  - StavrosK 6y ago
    I don't know, I hate Slack. It's slow, bloated, can't even keep up with my typing on a brand new Ryzen and it doesn't even do conversations well. I know I sound like a Zulip shill, but try that for a bit and you'll see the difference, I love it.
- benbristow 6y ago
  Teams is too corporate IMHO. The video chat is really good from experience though. Everywhere I've worked Slack's basically a free for all, can add custom emojis and create private channels etc. Teams was always more locked down. One place even disabled the GIF feature! I know you can lock down Slack too but nowhere I've been has bothered to do so.
  - lostlogin 6y ago
    > The video chat is really good from experience though. I have had a few people on calls with poor connection speeds. It degrades horribly by stuttering and distorting audio. It performs worse than a phone call. The best fix would be for Australia to fix its woeful internet. When you load the web interface it identifies each person with their initials, not full name. This isn’t helpful when you have never met the person before.
dannyw 6y ago
I prefer Slack too, but I'd like my services to be reliable and not go down on a regular basis.
- Trasmatta 6y ago
  Microsoft Teams had a major outage just last week. Every major service like this has issues sometimes.
rhinoceraptor 6y ago
Yep, Slack certainly has major performance/memory usage issues. And somehow Teams is even worse.

We have both Slack and Teams. Almost everyone I know who has an option picks Slack.

StavrosK 6y ago

I've never used Teams, but if everyone prefers Slack over it, it must be horrible.

Galanwe 6y ago
Teams is a nightmare. Instead of just creating the simple chat that everyone was just asking for, they went full PhD and created a mix between a chat and a forum. A Teams "channel" has counter intuitive behavior, the messages you send are more like forum threads, users can reply to them, and when that happens it reorders the whole messages to put that one at the bottom. It makes it impossible to "catch up" on a channel since people will happily reply to any messages so the ordering is completely random. There is also a completely counter intuitive distinction between "groups chats" and "channels". Teams is also the only chat service I know where there is an actual limit on the number of non-public channels you can have. After 30 channels have been created, you're doomed. Want to remove an existing channel to make room for a new one? Nope, you cannot remove a channel, only "archive" them. Archived channels are removed after 30 days and there is no way to force their removal early. So basically if you reach 30 channels you have to wait minimum 30 days to create a new one. Did I mention the UI is slow as hell, and half the screen space is used by unnecessary large padding between messages? I am rarely able to have more than 3/4 messages displayed on a 23" screen. The only positive point of Teams is integration with outlook 365 and meetings. It works really well, quality is good, reliable, nice UI, présentation mode, screen share, etc
znpy 6y ago
There are a lot of other adjectives between "slack-like" and horrible. I've used teams in the past and it's not that bad. It's a valid alternative to slack imho.
- StavrosK 6y ago
  I don't know, I hate Slack. It's slow, bloated, can't even keep up with my typing on a brand new Ryzen and it doesn't even do conversations well. I know I sound like a Zulip shill, but try that for a bit and you'll see the difference, I love it.
benbristow 6y ago
Teams is too corporate IMHO. The video chat is really good from experience though. Everywhere I've worked Slack's basically a free for all, can add custom emojis and create private channels etc. Teams was always more locked down. One place even disabled the GIF feature! I know you can lock down Slack too but nowhere I've been has bothered to do so.
- lostlogin 6y ago
  > The video chat is really good from experience though. I have had a few people on calls with poor connection speeds. It degrades horribly by stuttering and distorting audio. It performs worse than a phone call. The best fix would be for Australia to fix its woeful internet. When you load the web interface it identifies each person with their initials, not full name. This isn’t helpful when you have never met the person before.

dannyw 6y ago

I prefer Slack too, but I'd like my services to be reliable and not go down on a regular basis.

Trasmatta 6y ago
Microsoft Teams had a major outage just last week. Every major service like this has issues sometimes.

rhinoceraptor 6y ago

Yep, Slack certainly has major performance/memory usage issues. And somehow Teams is even worse.