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One day they just completely fucked the ability to paste code. It worked flawlessly before and then suddenly it removes indenting, bugs out and doesn't let you

One day they just completely fucked the ability to paste code. It worked flawlessly before and then suddenly it removes indenting, bugs out and doesn't let you exit the preformatted code block. It's so bugged, it's like they didn't even test it. They couldn't have, one day it literally worked fine and the next it was unusable and could be replicated every single time. And why there isn't the ability to just delete the rich text formatting and write markdown I do not know. They can't build a bug free rich text editor or one with intuitive controls. It's the same problem I have with Jira, the rich text editor just does not work like it should.

bennyp101 5y ago
I like playing the "can I paste an image in today or not?" game - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes I have to open the web version to do it, other times not ...
- mrweasel 5y ago
  For a six month five people in our office couldn’t use the desktop client. Video meetings just didn’t work on the Mac.
- ncann 5y ago
  The image thing is the most frustrating one. Most of the time someone sends me an image, I can see it in the chat, but as I click on it, the Teams UI bugs out and displays nothing.
- thrower123 5y ago
  If somebody sends me an image, I can click on the thumbnail and open it full-size about once in five attempts. Usually it will just open up to a blank screen and fail to load the image.
stevesimmons 5y ago
The latest Teams bug I've encountered is an inability to write a bulleted list with more than one bullet. Each newline splits the list into a new message. No combination of Shift/Ctrl/Alt + Enter worked. This changed, as in broke, around a week ago. At least for me, on Win 11. Edit: Just remembered another Teams bug from a few days ago: cut text from the middle of paragraph, paste it back in earlier in the same paragraph, ... and it appears in a smaller font.
- Shacklz 5y ago
  For the list-bug, there is a workaround I think, if you go into the "Edit-mode" (or whatever it's called) where Enter won't immediately send the message, having multiple bullet points (by using Enter) still works. But yeah, it's really silly how they manage to break things like this. One would think they have a test-suite specifically for their shitty editor to prevent things like this - apparently not the case. Welp. It's not yet skype-levels of bad, where doing _anything_ beyond simple text was impossible, but it seems they're slowly getting their, update by update.
- brynjolf 5y ago
  For me and my team CTRL+A randomly stops working for an hour. It happens every single day randomly for different members. Just mind-boggling BS every day with Teams. My Android client randomly signs me out, sometimes multiple times per day.
  - shinydevops 5y ago
    Here's my "it's not stupid if it works" fix (that doesn't involve restarting Teams). Click on any message in a chat, click CTRL- (or CMD-) A, and congrats, select all works again. Please don't read this as a defense of Teams -- I'm just another frustrated user.
    - weikju 5y ago
      THANK YOU, I couldn't figure out why sometimes it would work and sometimes it wouldn't.
- markus_zhang 5y ago
  Exactly. This completely frustrated me out. How many times I hit enter and sent the msg instead of creaing a new list item? This can be remidiated by using the editor mode, albeit I found it frustrating still.
- MegaDeKay 5y ago
  Yes. This is horrible. The horrible workaround is Ctl-Shift-X shortcut to bring up the more advanced editor that lets you selected bulleted lists.
pwarner 5y ago
These bugs and regressions are so bad that I'm convinced no one at MS actually uses Teams.
rightbyte 5y ago
Oh ye a code snippet I sent in Teams made me wreck our deployment system. Teams put a nobreak space or something in the code that looked like a ordinary space in the diff. I am still abit mad :)
- Shacklz 5y ago
  Oh Teams started doing this too now? This was that one thing that made me absolutely hate Skype (other than being utter garbage in general) and that at least worked so far in Teams... Looks like all commercial chat-software is destined to become terrible garbage, one A/B-test at a time.
  - rightbyte 5y ago
    It was like a year ago. If I remember correctly, there is some difference between voice call chat rooms and the instant messaging chat rooms. I don't remember which messed up whitespace. Or if I copied between chats etc. Can't trust the text anyhow.

bennyp101 5y ago

I like playing the "can I paste an image in today or not?" game - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes I have to open the web version to do it, other times not ...

mrweasel 5y ago
For a six month five people in our office couldn’t use the desktop client. Video meetings just didn’t work on the Mac.
ncann 5y ago
The image thing is the most frustrating one. Most of the time someone sends me an image, I can see it in the chat, but as I click on it, the Teams UI bugs out and displays nothing.
thrower123 5y ago
If somebody sends me an image, I can click on the thumbnail and open it full-size about once in five attempts. Usually it will just open up to a blank screen and fail to load the image.

stevesimmons 5y ago

The latest Teams bug I've encountered is an inability to write a bulleted list with more than one bullet. Each newline splits the list into a new message. No combination of Shift/Ctrl/Alt + Enter worked. This changed, as in broke, around a week ago. At least for me, on Win 11. Edit: Just remembered another Teams bug from a few days ago: cut text from the middle of paragraph, paste it back in earlier in the same paragraph, ... and it appears in a smaller font.

Shacklz 5y ago
For the list-bug, there is a workaround I think, if you go into the "Edit-mode" (or whatever it's called) where Enter won't immediately send the message, having multiple bullet points (by using Enter) still works. But yeah, it's really silly how they manage to break things like this. One would think they have a test-suite specifically for their shitty editor to prevent things like this - apparently not the case. Welp. It's not yet skype-levels of bad, where doing _anything_ beyond simple text was impossible, but it seems they're slowly getting their, update by update.
brynjolf 5y ago
For me and my team CTRL+A randomly stops working for an hour. It happens every single day randomly for different members. Just mind-boggling BS every day with Teams. My Android client randomly signs me out, sometimes multiple times per day.
- shinydevops 5y ago
  Here's my "it's not stupid if it works" fix (that doesn't involve restarting Teams). Click on any message in a chat, click CTRL- (or CMD-) A, and congrats, select all works again. Please don't read this as a defense of Teams -- I'm just another frustrated user.
  - weikju 5y ago
    THANK YOU, I couldn't figure out why sometimes it would work and sometimes it wouldn't.
markus_zhang 5y ago
Exactly. This completely frustrated me out. How many times I hit enter and sent the msg instead of creaing a new list item? This can be remidiated by using the editor mode, albeit I found it frustrating still.
MegaDeKay 5y ago
Yes. This is horrible. The horrible workaround is Ctl-Shift-X shortcut to bring up the more advanced editor that lets you selected bulleted lists.

pwarner 5y ago

These bugs and regressions are so bad that I'm convinced no one at MS actually uses Teams.

rightbyte 5y ago

Oh ye a code snippet I sent in Teams made me wreck our deployment system. Teams put a nobreak space or something in the code that looked like a ordinary space in the diff. I am still abit mad :)

Shacklz 5y ago
Oh Teams started doing this too now? This was that one thing that made me absolutely hate Skype (other than being utter garbage in general) and that at least worked so far in Teams... Looks like all commercial chat-software is destined to become terrible garbage, one A/B-test at a time.
- rightbyte 5y ago
  It was like a year ago. If I remember correctly, there is some difference between voice call chat rooms and the instant messaging chat rooms. I don't remember which messed up whitespace. Or if I copied between chats etc. Can't trust the text anyhow.