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We used Teams at my last job. It was unpopular and we didn't use it a whole lot since the building was small enough that we could just... ya know, yell. Then M

by sli 5y ago

We used Teams at my last job. It was unpopular and we didn't use it a whole lot since the building was small enough that we could just... ya know, yell. Then MS introduced that weird semi-forced threaded discussion feature that make following conversations a nightmare and nobody, not a single person in the whole company, sent a message over Teams ever again. We kept running it to appear online, but literally nobody actually used it. We did spend a fair amount of downtime talking about how much we hated Teams, though. And Azure DevOps. More than one person there considered it some of the worst software they've ever used, and they're right. It was a horrendous mess or awful UX (but tons and tons of charts for the managers to value far too highly). That was a year and a half ago or so, maybe it's better now. But at the time, having switched to that from Gitlab, it was atrocious and we avoided it as much as we could.

m8s 5y ago
I first had the pleasure of using Teams in 2016 or 2017, I forget exactly when, and at the time they didn’t have accessibility features. None. You couldn’t even increase the text size in the app. It was nigh unusable then. I left for a different job and within a year, Teams again reared its ugly head. I’ve thankfully moved on from that job too. Whatever cost savings Teams affords, the difference is more than lost in confusion, miscommunication, and frustration across the workplace. May I never have to use it again. Interestingly, my team now uses Discord for communication and we really love it.
- yurishimo 5y ago
  How do you deal with backscroll? That’s been my biggest hang up with Discord but I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t use it much.
  - eatonphil 5y ago
    What is your issue with/what do you mean by backscroll? I've been using Discord for a few months now but still new.
    - PretzelPirate 5y ago
      I’m not who you replied to but Discord has this terrible behavior in channels with a lot of content where scrolling up loads historical messages, but often sends you to a random location in history instead of smoothly scrolling through them in reverse chronological order.

by sli 5y ago

m8s 5y ago

I first had the pleasure of using Teams in 2016 or 2017, I forget exactly when, and at the time they didn’t have accessibility features. None. You couldn’t even increase the text size in the app. It was nigh unusable then. I left for a different job and within a year, Teams again reared its ugly head. I’ve thankfully moved on from that job too. Whatever cost savings Teams affords, the difference is more than lost in confusion, miscommunication, and frustration across the workplace. May I never have to use it again. Interestingly, my team now uses Discord for communication and we really love it.

yurishimo 5y ago
How do you deal with backscroll? That’s been my biggest hang up with Discord but I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t use it much.
- eatonphil 5y ago
  What is your issue with/what do you mean by backscroll? I've been using Discord for a few months now but still new.
  - PretzelPirate 5y ago
    I’m not who you replied to but Discord has this terrible behavior in channels with a lot of content where scrolling up loads historical messages, but often sends you to a random location in history instead of smoothly scrolling through them in reverse chronological order.