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That's interesting. I find managing Teams' multiple windows cumbersome and confusing, but find Slack very natural and efficient. Do you end up sending messages

by pxc 4y ago

That's interesting. I find managing Teams' multiple windows cumbersome and confusing, but find Slack very natural and efficient. Do you end up sending messages in the wrong chat often? Or missing messages or both? What do the main frustrations of a single window setup look like?

st3fan 4y ago
I lose stuff all the time when I switch between conversations and channels.
- aeyes 4y ago
  try the back button to jump back to where you were before
  - pxc 4y ago
    I just navigate Slack entirely by search and redirect all conversations to public channel as as much as possible, and I find that pretty natural. CTRL+K to navigate between convos and channels, CTRL+F to find things based on content (if I don't want to think about whether something was in a DM or a channel, and just go back to the same one).
ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago
> Do you end up sending messages in the wrong chat often? Yup. It’s probably my most frequent mistake (and can be embarrassing). I make the same mistake with messages. What I have done to mitigate the issue, is give each workspace a different color theme. At least, it helps me to avoid crosstalk between organizations. I’m not a “native slacker,” so I’m probably not a particularly good candidate for a focus group.
- pxc 4y ago
  > What I have done to mitigate the issue, is give each workspace a different color theme. At least, it helps me to avoid crosstalk between organizations. Ok yeah the different workspaces in one window is more of a pain than just different channels and chats in one window for me, at least the way it's done in Slack. I haven't felt that way on IRC, for whatever reason.
pjdesno 4y ago
On a Mac, Teams doesn't obey many of the user interface guidelines, so multi-window use is unintuitive and difficult. Of course nothing in Mac Teams is nearly as bad as their incoming call notification - calls pop up under all your existing calendar/email/... notifications, which you have to furiously click away in order to answer the call.
- PascLeRasc 4y ago
  That sounds ridiculously frustrating. Does Cmd + ` pull up the call? I'm guessing no since Teams go out of its way to make notifications un-native and clunky, but maybe worth a shot.

by pxc 4y ago

st3fan 4y ago

I lose stuff all the time when I switch between conversations and channels.

aeyes 4y ago
try the back button to jump back to where you were before
- pxc 4y ago
  I just navigate Slack entirely by search and redirect all conversations to public channel as as much as possible, and I find that pretty natural. CTRL+K to navigate between convos and channels, CTRL+F to find things based on content (if I don't want to think about whether something was in a DM or a channel, and just go back to the same one).

ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago

> Do you end up sending messages in the wrong chat often? Yup. It’s probably my most frequent mistake (and can be embarrassing). I make the same mistake with messages. What I have done to mitigate the issue, is give each workspace a different color theme. At least, it helps me to avoid crosstalk between organizations. I’m not a “native slacker,” so I’m probably not a particularly good candidate for a focus group.

pxc 4y ago
> What I have done to mitigate the issue, is give each workspace a different color theme. At least, it helps me to avoid crosstalk between organizations. Ok yeah the different workspaces in one window is more of a pain than just different channels and chats in one window for me, at least the way it's done in Slack. I haven't felt that way on IRC, for whatever reason.

pjdesno 4y ago

On a Mac, Teams doesn't obey many of the user interface guidelines, so multi-window use is unintuitive and difficult. Of course nothing in Mac Teams is nearly as bad as their incoming call notification - calls pop up under all your existing calendar/email/... notifications, which you have to furiously click away in order to answer the call.

PascLeRasc 4y ago
That sounds ridiculously frustrating. Does Cmd + ` pull up the call? I'm guessing no since Teams go out of its way to make notifications un-native and clunky, but maybe worth a shot.