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>say what you want about MS Teams, but they improved their product by leaps and bounds over the pandemic, much of which after the first 6 months Did they? I've

>say what you want about MS Teams, but they improved their product by leaps and bounds over the pandemic, much of which after the first 6 months Did they? I've been using it at my company for years, since long before the pandemic, and I don't think I've seen any improvements since the first day I started using it until now. Every issue I have with it has gone unchanged. The only change I can think of is when they added support for custom video backgrounds and blur, which is helpful but doesn't really affect the experience of the app itself. I find it funny how at work I use this giant behemoth's chat app I hate and then when I'm done with work I use this silly app (that used to be) for people who play video games, Discord, which has had a far superior UI/UX to Teams for years and keeps getting better and better. For every issue I have with Teams, the same issue has never been present with Discord. Every time I use Teams I just wish I was using Discord. And I'm not a Discord shill or something. It's just such a weird contrast. It feels like Discord has been enterprise-ready for years and Teams has never stopped being a toy rip-off. Trying to share anything technical or code-related has always been super seamless for Discord and is still basically a nightmare every time I try to do it with Teams.

hunter-gatherer 5y ago
This is my experience exactly. Teams is also somewhat easy to get lost in once you get a lot of rooms open. Our IT department has decided to use Teams as a ticketing system. My manager decoded to use Teams as a PTO calendar by assigning tasks to yourself. All we really needed was a good chat app for private conversations and small teams... I don't know why companies have such a hard time solving these kinds of issues.
Aeolun 5y ago
> I don't think I've seen any improvements since the first day I started using it At some point they hid the new topic/thread input behind a button, and that really improved my life, since people stopped creating new threads when responding to other ones. The discoverability in teams is horrible though. And something about it makes everyone want to create a new team for every thing.
- meowface 5y ago
  >At some point they hid the new topic/thread input behind a button, and that really improved my life, since people stopped creating new threads when responding to other ones. Actually, yes, I remember this now. This was definitely a huge improvement. I was just trying to think of an addition of something good rather than fixing of something bad.
phillipcarter 5y ago
Several things come to mind: * UX for sharing from screen underwent a lot of change but I really like where it is now * Blur/custom backgrouns/together mode additions. The last one actually did help with a feeling of camaraderie * Switching into a thread-first model really helped conversation continuity on the teams I worked with * Various smoothing out of integrations; namely with sharepoint. When you're at MS you're using internal sharepoints for docs and slides, and it's nice having access to everything and having it all feel integrated. * PPT presentation mode, for me, was way better than using actual PowerPoint to present things in my setup. Not sure if others felt that way, but I did. Prior to the pandemic, it felt like a more-corporate version of slack with less features that ran crappier. But I went from "I don't like using this" to "this is fine and I can get my work done with it" by the end of 2020.

hunter-gatherer 5y ago

This is my experience exactly. Teams is also somewhat easy to get lost in once you get a lot of rooms open. Our IT department has decided to use Teams as a ticketing system. My manager decoded to use Teams as a PTO calendar by assigning tasks to yourself. All we really needed was a good chat app for private conversations and small teams... I don't know why companies have such a hard time solving these kinds of issues.

Aeolun 5y ago

> I don't think I've seen any improvements since the first day I started using it At some point they hid the new topic/thread input behind a button, and that really improved my life, since people stopped creating new threads when responding to other ones. The discoverability in teams is horrible though. And something about it makes everyone want to create a new team for every thing.

meowface 5y ago
>At some point they hid the new topic/thread input behind a button, and that really improved my life, since people stopped creating new threads when responding to other ones. Actually, yes, I remember this now. This was definitely a huge improvement. I was just trying to think of an addition of something good rather than fixing of something bad.

phillipcarter 5y ago

Several things come to mind: * UX for sharing from screen underwent a lot of change but I really like where it is now * Blur/custom backgrouns/together mode additions. The last one actually did help with a feeling of camaraderie * Switching into a thread-first model really helped conversation continuity on the teams I worked with * Various smoothing out of integrations; namely with sharepoint. When you're at MS you're using internal sharepoints for docs and slides, and it's nice having access to everything and having it all feel integrated. * PPT presentation mode, for me, was way better than using actual PowerPoint to present things in my setup. Not sure if others felt that way, but I did. Prior to the pandemic, it felt like a more-corporate version of slack with less features that ran crappier. But I went from "I don't like using this" to "this is fine and I can get my work done with it" by the end of 2020.