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Don't you guys find the MS Teams "chat" interface an absolute mess? When I tried it a few months ago it felt like another ridiculous UI that wanted to emulate m

Don't you guys find the MS Teams "chat" interface an absolute mess? When I tried it a few months ago it felt like another ridiculous UI that wanted to emulate mobile phone messages for some reason with giant chat bubbles, tons of wasted white space, emojiis, avatars, etc. Slack's "compact" mode definitely isn't perfect but it's better. We as a tech world need to just revert back to the simple format most IRC clients use.

Wowfunhappy 6y ago
Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of Slack in the first place but Teams's UI just seems like an utter mess. I don't understand how I'm supposed to use it. I'm sure I could figure it out if I spent 15 minutes, but it's a damn chat app. Why is this so hard?
- thinkharderdev 6y ago
  MSFT just pushed a UI update to Outlook on Mac that is actually really nice. I'm hoping that maybe they've finally got their UX together and Teams will improve. Pretty sure my company will be axing Slack in favor of Teams in the next year or two. Maybe by then it will have a reasonably good UX.
- toyg 6y ago
  The thing is, their threaded interface kinda sucked, so they built another one ('chat') and tried to push the idea that 'Teams' (threaded) is for 'permanent' info, and 'Chat' is for the ethereal one. Except nobody really bothers with switching back and forth, most teams just choose one or the other and do everything in there. Bit of a mess. I cannot fault them on the meeting functionality and sharepoint integrations though, they are excellent.
- selykg 6y ago
  As someone that uses Teams. It's not pleasant to use on a Mac. My coworkers use Windows PCs and they all have a ton of fun problems with things as well. I'm not so sure switching to Teams is a better move than Slack.
  - stefan_ 6y ago
    Try it on a Linux system sometime then. The only saving grace is that the crap sputters "Skype" everywhere, so you get to imagine what a sad miserable existence it must be for the people maintaining that obviously inherited, hastily cloned monstrosity.
- milquetoastaf 6y ago
  Come join my team, where we use both Slack and Teams!

Wowfunhappy 6y ago

Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of Slack in the first place but Teams's UI just seems like an utter mess. I don't understand how I'm supposed to use it. I'm sure I could figure it out if I spent 15 minutes, but it's a damn chat app. Why is this so hard?

thinkharderdev 6y ago
MSFT just pushed a UI update to Outlook on Mac that is actually really nice. I'm hoping that maybe they've finally got their UX together and Teams will improve. Pretty sure my company will be axing Slack in favor of Teams in the next year or two. Maybe by then it will have a reasonably good UX.
toyg 6y ago
The thing is, their threaded interface kinda sucked, so they built another one ('chat') and tried to push the idea that 'Teams' (threaded) is for 'permanent' info, and 'Chat' is for the ethereal one. Except nobody really bothers with switching back and forth, most teams just choose one or the other and do everything in there. Bit of a mess. I cannot fault them on the meeting functionality and sharepoint integrations though, they are excellent.
selykg 6y ago
As someone that uses Teams. It's not pleasant to use on a Mac. My coworkers use Windows PCs and they all have a ton of fun problems with things as well. I'm not so sure switching to Teams is a better move than Slack.
- stefan_ 6y ago
  Try it on a Linux system sometime then. The only saving grace is that the crap sputters "Skype" everywhere, so you get to imagine what a sad miserable existence it must be for the people maintaining that obviously inherited, hastily cloned monstrosity.
milquetoastaf 6y ago
Come join my team, where we use both Slack and Teams!