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Teams sucks. It's user interface is unintuitive and messy. I find it difficult to find the context I want. Search doesn't seem to work. It takes a long time
by BLKNSLVR 5y ago
Teams sucks.
It's user interface is unintuitive and messy. I find it difficult to find the context I want.
Search doesn't seem to work.
It takes a long time to load.
When it eventually loads, it pops itself up in front of whatever I've opened and started working on (whilst Teams is busy loading) to take all my keystrokes until I notice the keystrokes aren't showing up in the program I was already using - I've seen at least one person's password entered into a chat session because of Teams "grabbing the front".
And, finally, Teams has taken the initiative to redefine "full screen" such that even that unambiguous terminology is now meaningless. Full screen now means "zoom in, just a little bit". Fuck you Teams.
Screen sharing / video conferencing works fine, however. Except the full screen thing, so even the decent bit has a large caveat.
My apologies for the outburst, but I had to get it off my chest. Teams fucking sucks.
- _ix 5y agoI started writing a long-winded thing to enumerate the problems with Teams that no product person at Microsoft will ever see, so why bother? It's a terrible product. The purported sticker price for enterprises disguises the costly loss of productivity due to this mess. It's just a godawful mess.
- rjsw 5y ago> Teams sucks. Yep. Was in a Teams meeting last week. Audio mixing is poor compared with Zoom, any background noise on an active microphone will cut out another person speaking. The controls menu keeps changing. Click on the "raise hand" icon and it disappears, you can't "lower your hand" until it reappears some random time later.
- stefan_ 5y agoWhy is it that in every one of these meeting apps, speaking causes them to totally garble any other person speaking simultaneously? It's like they go "oh you are speaking lets downgrade all others to 1kbit/s". Stop with the byte pinching and just give us the full fidelity sound like I'm using TeamSpeak, it's fricking audio.
- minaguib 5y agoWhat is it with "search doesn't work/work well" being a universal gripe with all of Microsoft's products ? It's not like there are no good examples of what modern user expectations are for searching a body of text....
- dehrmann 5y agoI haven't worked on a search product, but I've worked at small shops with bad search products (one's business was even that product). Search is hard when you don't have lots of training data, data is poorly organized, you have mostly tail queries, and people aren't used to you search engine's quirks. Search results are also bad when you're balancing quality with yield (as in revenue). Google mostly doesn't have these problems. It has loads of people searching for head queries, so results are continuously being tested to death. Website owners put some effort into making their content accessible to Google with SEO, and people are used to searching with Google, so they've learned a few tricks for less popular queries. Local search and corporate intranet search have none of that. You're basically whatever Lucene does out-of-the-box.
- juangacovas 5y agoFor the sake of discovery, I'd say Manticore search does a pretty (and fast) good job with full text searches and suggestions.
- postalrat 5y agoTeams sucks. Slack sucks. Discord FTW!