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I have both Slack and teams at work. Teams is really bad. It’s a pain to search for text and all its many random bugs just add to the frustration. Everyone feel

I have both Slack and teams at work. Teams is really bad. It’s a pain to search for text and all its many random bugs just add to the frustration. Everyone feels they cannot rely on teams. To be honest teams just seems like a half finished project, it impacts productivity in a negative way.

AnonC 6y ago
We have been using Teams and the user experience is really bad. If anyone wants to point to Electron and blame it for high RAM usage (causing issues for other applications) and being sluggish, Teams would be the poster child that ticks all the boxes for such characterizations. Frequent disconnects on and before calls, frequent problems with connecting and maintaining the available/connected status, and a myriad other problems make it a big drain on time and productivity. Microsoft also seems to be pushing Teams as a replacement for Skype for Business (or that’s how it seems based on organization decisions).
- thekooples 6y ago
  I never had any problems with audio/video features, but the RAM issue is real: it uses significantly more RAM than VS Code, another Microsoft product, that runs way more complex processes behind the scenes.
  - tatersolid 6y ago
    Multi-party video conferencing is way more complicated than anything VS Code does.
oneeyedpigeon 6y ago
IME, the thing that nobody seemed to get the hang of, over a couple of months, with Teams was the difference between replying to the last message as a thread and starting a whole new thread. It seemed every time I wanted to reply, I ended up.creating a new thread, and I was far from the only one.
- hotsauceror 6y ago
  This used to be a problem for us too but I believe the UX changed a couple of months ago. Teams now shows a largish purple button that says “New Conversation” at the bottom of the chat window, and they added a little more space between that and the bottom of the previous conversation. It made a big difference.

AnonC 6y ago

We have been using Teams and the user experience is really bad. If anyone wants to point to Electron and blame it for high RAM usage (causing issues for other applications) and being sluggish, Teams would be the poster child that ticks all the boxes for such characterizations. Frequent disconnects on and before calls, frequent problems with connecting and maintaining the available/connected status, and a myriad other problems make it a big drain on time and productivity. Microsoft also seems to be pushing Teams as a replacement for Skype for Business (or that’s how it seems based on organization decisions).

thekooples 6y ago
I never had any problems with audio/video features, but the RAM issue is real: it uses significantly more RAM than VS Code, another Microsoft product, that runs way more complex processes behind the scenes.
- tatersolid 6y ago
  Multi-party video conferencing is way more complicated than anything VS Code does.

oneeyedpigeon 6y ago

IME, the thing that nobody seemed to get the hang of, over a couple of months, with Teams was the difference between replying to the last message as a thread and starting a whole new thread. It seemed every time I wanted to reply, I ended up.creating a new thread, and I was far from the only one.

hotsauceror 6y ago
This used to be a problem for us too but I believe the UX changed a couple of months ago. Teams now shows a largish purple button that says “New Conversation” at the bottom of the chat window, and they added a little more space between that and the bottom of the previous conversation. It made a big difference.