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Yes! Teams is by far the worst "popular" software i've ever used. It's so bad that eventhough most businesses depend on teams, they, as well as everyone else,

by zapnuk 5y ago

Yes! Teams is by far the worst "popular" software i've ever used. It's so bad that eventhough most businesses depend on teams, they, as well as everyone else, would be better off if teams suddenly disappears from one day to another. edit: Just a few things that annoy me basically on a daily basis: - The status isn't always up to date. Sometimes it takes minutes to you or your contacts to show the correct status. - It is (unsupprisingly) not very responsive - It hogs my CPU when its idle and especially during video calls. So much so that the fans of my 2020 MBP start spinning up - which otherwise only happens when I run a build/tests. This is especcially bad considering all other video call software (zoom, discord) run just fine. - The UX is terrible when you are active in different organizations. It's riddled with bugs. Every time I switch organizations I have to type in my password twice because for some reason the login session expires instantaniously. If I switch back an forth sometimes some functionality like shring screen or accepting calls just stops working and I have to restart teams. - It tries to include the formatting if you copy+paste in chat. It always looks bad and sometime is ittetating because the font size is way smaller. - Cameras or shared desktops regularily freeze - You cant set the audio level of individual participants. This is especiallly annoying if you're in the same room as other participants of larger meetings since you'd then head them twice. - Because of the messy permission system between multiple organizations it's often not clear wether or not you can certain contacts of are allowed to use the chat in meetings.

rr808 5y ago
Still better than Skype though.
- dvhh 5y ago
  I prefer the somewhat focused approach of skype, rather than the multi-channel type kitchen sink used by teams. To communicate you've got "Chat" then "Teams", On "Chat" you can reply to one message, and on "Teams" you can post on the Threads to reply. On the UX side, at one point I experienced bad memory leak if GPU acceleration was enabled, The shortcut for starting the voice call is the same as the "paste only the text" shortcut in other application (causing more than one department wide voice conference started by accident)
bastardoperator 5y ago
The login experience is the worst of any app I've used. Stop asking me every day to login, and god help you if you're in multiple orgs. I pretty much do the web app at this point. Thankfully my org mostly uses zoom and slack, but customers on teams refuse to experience normalcy and demand everyone experience their pain, same with webex, come on people...
- rob74 5y ago
  Well, at least with Teams you can use the web app, for Zoom has to be installed, and at least under Linux it's a complete train-wreck. Incidentally, I have the issue with 100% CPU usage during video calls with Zoom, while Teams (in the browser) works just fine.
  - dagw 5y ago
    Zoom has to be installed Is that a recent change? Up until a few month ago I worked at a company that banned the Zoom client for "security reasons" and had to use Zoom on the web for all my Zoom meetings and it never was a problem.
  - mnd999 5y ago
    Zoom can run in the browser.
    - rob74 5y ago
      AFAIK, Zoom can "run in the browser" in the sense that when you click a Zoom link it prompts you to install a "Zoom Launcher plugin" which is for all intents and purposes a binary application that you install locally. I wouldn't call that "running in the browser". Or has something changed recently?
      - mnd999 5y ago
        Pretty sure it’s always been the case it can run as WebRTC in the browser. They make it hard to find, but if you reject all their crapware there is a link to just continue in the browser and join a zoom.
syshum 5y ago
There is a litany of complaints I have with Teams... However Teams has no more or less QA and other problems than ever other MS product I use... I dont know if that is good or bad but ......
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_dqna 5y ago
- Notifications will continue to trigger for chat threads of meetings I’m no longer a part of, for teams I’m no longer in. - I can’t create bullet points and numbered lists because breaklines will frequently send the message instead of continuing the list. - You’ve already mentioned this, but the ability to change volume for individual speakers should be considerer core functionality. I’d rather use Discord for office work than Teams for this reason alone. What’s weird to me is that Teams, for me at least, was a good product about 3 or 4 years ago. Definitely more stable back then; I had fewer complaints.
- pfundstein 5y ago
  - The search is garbage, and if you are actually able to find what you're looking for, you still can't get the contextual messages around your result.
spaetzleesser 5y ago
The search is just horrible. also: how can you ship a Wiki feature that's not searchable? That's the whole point of a wiki.
fomine3 5y ago
Select text and Ctrl+C without release mouse button always make me rage. It copies entire message rather than selected text. I've never seen this behavior on windows apps.
encryptluks2 5y ago
Best way to resolve issues like this is stop working for companies like this. They are toxic.
WithinReason 5y ago
> - It tries to include the formatting if you copy+paste in chat. It always looks bad and sometime is ittetating because the font size is way smaller. Try pasting with Ctrl-Shift-V instead of Ctrl-V

by zapnuk 5y ago

rr808 5y ago

Still better than Skype though.

dvhh 5y ago
I prefer the somewhat focused approach of skype, rather than the multi-channel type kitchen sink used by teams. To communicate you've got "Chat" then "Teams", On "Chat" you can reply to one message, and on "Teams" you can post on the Threads to reply. On the UX side, at one point I experienced bad memory leak if GPU acceleration was enabled, The shortcut for starting the voice call is the same as the "paste only the text" shortcut in other application (causing more than one department wide voice conference started by accident)

bastardoperator 5y ago

The login experience is the worst of any app I've used. Stop asking me every day to login, and god help you if you're in multiple orgs. I pretty much do the web app at this point. Thankfully my org mostly uses zoom and slack, but customers on teams refuse to experience normalcy and demand everyone experience their pain, same with webex, come on people...

rob74 5y ago
Well, at least with Teams you can use the web app, for Zoom has to be installed, and at least under Linux it's a complete train-wreck. Incidentally, I have the issue with 100% CPU usage during video calls with Zoom, while Teams (in the browser) works just fine.
- dagw 5y ago
  Zoom has to be installed Is that a recent change? Up until a few month ago I worked at a company that banned the Zoom client for "security reasons" and had to use Zoom on the web for all my Zoom meetings and it never was a problem.
- mnd999 5y ago
  Zoom can run in the browser.
  - rob74 5y ago
    AFAIK, Zoom can "run in the browser" in the sense that when you click a Zoom link it prompts you to install a "Zoom Launcher plugin" which is for all intents and purposes a binary application that you install locally. I wouldn't call that "running in the browser". Or has something changed recently?
    - mnd999 5y ago
      Pretty sure it’s always been the case it can run as WebRTC in the browser. They make it hard to find, but if you reject all their crapware there is a link to just continue in the browser and join a zoom.

syshum 5y ago

There is a litany of complaints I have with Teams... However Teams has no more or less QA and other problems than ever other MS product I use... I dont know if that is good or bad but ......

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_dqna 5y ago

- Notifications will continue to trigger for chat threads of meetings I’m no longer a part of, for teams I’m no longer in. - I can’t create bullet points and numbered lists because breaklines will frequently send the message instead of continuing the list. - You’ve already mentioned this, but the ability to change volume for individual speakers should be considerer core functionality. I’d rather use Discord for office work than Teams for this reason alone. What’s weird to me is that Teams, for me at least, was a good product about 3 or 4 years ago. Definitely more stable back then; I had fewer complaints.

pfundstein 5y ago
- The search is garbage, and if you are actually able to find what you're looking for, you still can't get the contextual messages around your result.

spaetzleesser 5y ago

The search is just horrible. also: how can you ship a Wiki feature that's not searchable? That's the whole point of a wiki.

fomine3 5y ago

Select text and Ctrl+C without release mouse button always make me rage. It copies entire message rather than selected text. I've never seen this behavior on windows apps.

encryptluks2 5y ago

Best way to resolve issues like this is stop working for companies like this. They are toxic.

WithinReason 5y ago

> - It tries to include the formatting if you copy+paste in chat. It always looks bad and sometime is ittetating because the font size is way smaller. Try pasting with Ctrl-Shift-V instead of Ctrl-V