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>Especially teams, a lot of people's statuses get stuck during the night and only when I click on them it updates to the real status. This 100% happens on Wind

by opan 4y ago

>Especially teams, a lot of people's statuses get stuck during the night and only when I click on them it updates to the real status. This 100% happens on Windows, and not just from leaving it overnight, but using it actively for hours after powering on in the morning. Statuses getting stuck is just a bug, I think. I've even seen it with my own status, repeatedly trying to set myself Away for lunch but still being shown Available or Busy. After a few attempts I usually give up, and I come back later to usually see it changed eventually. I don't expect proprietary software to be high quality or especially usable, so it doesn't surprise me much.

musicale 4y ago
This is a good point. I've found Teams to be rather buggy and unreliable, on both the client and server sides. The most annoying bit is Microsoft's monthly (or so) service outages when you can't log in. > I don't expect proprietary software to be high quality or especially usable, so it doesn't surprise me much. If I pay for a piece of software and it doesn't work as advertised, I ask for a refund. If I'm paying for a service like Teams or Office 365 that doesn't work as advertised, I stop paying for it. Unfortunately I'm not the one who is paying Microsoft for Teams, nor am I the person who selected it over various alternatives. That being said, what do you recommend as some higher quality free/open source alternative to Teams / Office 365 / Gsuite, etc.?
- opan 4y ago
  >Teams IRC is my personal favorite, but I'd look at XMPP or Matrix if you need something a bit more fancy. I use all three a bit outside of work. >Office I don't use office software much. I prefer to deal with plaintext when possible and use vim or emacs. I usually have LibreOffice installed if I need to do something especially office-y, but I'm not sure I can properly defend/recommend it when I don't actually know it that well. I think IRC, email, and git all still work pretty well. I think NextCloud has some sort of office stuff that could be worth looking into as well. I will add that Teams and some of these other popular proprietary programs have a LOT of features, and you probably won't get full feature parity elsewhere, but I also believe a lot of these features just aren't really needed. I like to think of things in more general terms, like "chat program", not "Teams alternative" or "Teams clone". I don't expect all similar software to have the same featureset. At work I've had to use Webex, Zoom, and Teams depending on who I'm working with. Some places have bans on certain software of this type. On that note, I was initially thinking of text chats in Teams as that's 99% of what I do with it at work, but if you do need the voice/video aspects, then I'd probably recommend Jitsi or maybe Mumble.

by opan 4y ago

musicale 4y ago

This is a good point. I've found Teams to be rather buggy and unreliable, on both the client and server sides. The most annoying bit is Microsoft's monthly (or so) service outages when you can't log in. > I don't expect proprietary software to be high quality or especially usable, so it doesn't surprise me much. If I pay for a piece of software and it doesn't work as advertised, I ask for a refund. If I'm paying for a service like Teams or Office 365 that doesn't work as advertised, I stop paying for it. Unfortunately I'm not the one who is paying Microsoft for Teams, nor am I the person who selected it over various alternatives. That being said, what do you recommend as some higher quality free/open source alternative to Teams / Office 365 / Gsuite, etc.?

opan 4y ago
>Teams IRC is my personal favorite, but I'd look at XMPP or Matrix if you need something a bit more fancy. I use all three a bit outside of work. >Office I don't use office software much. I prefer to deal with plaintext when possible and use vim or emacs. I usually have LibreOffice installed if I need to do something especially office-y, but I'm not sure I can properly defend/recommend it when I don't actually know it that well. I think IRC, email, and git all still work pretty well. I think NextCloud has some sort of office stuff that could be worth looking into as well. I will add that Teams and some of these other popular proprietary programs have a LOT of features, and you probably won't get full feature parity elsewhere, but I also believe a lot of these features just aren't really needed. I like to think of things in more general terms, like "chat program", not "Teams alternative" or "Teams clone". I don't expect all similar software to have the same featureset. At work I've had to use Webex, Zoom, and Teams depending on who I'm working with. Some places have bans on certain software of this type. On that note, I was initially thinking of text chats in Teams as that's 99% of what I do with it at work, but if you do need the voice/video aspects, then I'd probably recommend Jitsi or maybe Mumble.