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Am I the only person who likes teams? My company uses it heavily for text and video chats and I think it's pretty great, and don't get the bugs and slow perform

by lkois 4y ago

Am I the only person who likes teams? My company uses it heavily for text and video chats and I think it's pretty great, and don't get the bugs and slow performance issues of others. I wouldn't call it snappy, but still fine, and makes communications very easy. I'm using a surface laptop 3. Maybe MS did the apple thing of making software that only works properly on their own hardware

neogodless 4y ago
I don't feel strongly one way or another. As another said, the dismissing of notifications is onerous. But I have no issues with performance, and no apparent bugginess either. No Surface here - custom AMD Ryzen / AMD Radeon desktop. Windows 10 Pro.
the_jeremy 4y ago
search feature is horrendous. Very difficult to remind yourself about something you know you talked about person X with.
- sgerenser 4y ago
  I work for Microsoft (not on Teams). I actually don’t mind Teams much, it does the job and doesn’t seem much worse than Slack. But the crappy search is absolutely my biggest pet peeve.
  - InitialLastName 4y ago
    For being descended from (and forcibly superseding) what was once the genericized trademark for video chat (Skype), it's pretty egregious that "not much worse than Slack" is the best Microsoft can do.
  - jiggawatts 4y ago
    All Microsoft products have terrible search, Teams isn’t exceptional in this regard. If you work at Microsoft, and have any influence on the WinDev team, please tell them that the Start menu search is simply shameful. There hasn’t been a single major Windows release — server or client — capable of consistently, reliably, and correctly finding start menu items. Worse, every major release is broken in new and creative ways. This is especially true for a fresh install, because apparently a 64-core server needs several days to index 500 KB of text. (Microsoft support told me this with a straight face, almost verbatim.) Seriously, what is that team doing!? Is this the same code that’s in Outlook and Teams search too? It feels like it…
hbn 4y ago
The video conferencing is pretty good. Everything else is horrible. It's so clunky and limited. Especially coming from Slack at my last job.
MattGaiser 4y ago
Pretty great compared to what? I can make it usable, but Slack has always just worked. As an aside though, on Surface it was Google Meet that destroyed performance. I repeatedly got overheating warnings while in meetings.
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croes 4y ago
MS software works on MS hardware with an MS OS. Who would have thought.
rightbyte 4y ago
Copy pasting code snippets do not work in Teams. It randomly inserts nbsp.
gabythenerd 4y ago
I use slack regularly at work, discord for gaming and teams at university. The worst of all 3 is teams by far, just the startup is too slow.
mattnewton 4y ago
I think so? Everyone I know at companies that have bought it also had employee-lead efforts to buy slack and/or zoom, and employees use those instead, like Adobe for example. I haven’t used it personally but I have only heard very negative things in my network.
wollsmoth 4y ago
Yeah I used it on a MBP for months before I left my last job. It struggled when a lot of people had their camera on but it seemed to improve over time. I wonder if it has to do with OS version or something. I didn't love it, but for video meetings it worked well enough for me.
bigDinosaur 4y ago
Does it let you receive real time notifications from other organisations, or do you only get them from the one you're 'active' in? That was the dumbest thing ever and caused me to constantly miss messages from clients (or my actual employer, if I was signed into the teams space for a client) until I got an email a few hours after someone had sent a message. I just don't get why they'd choose to artificially restrict it with such a deficient model. Other things that sucked: - search never seemed to find anything I wanted, and I never knew why, but I can always find what I want in e.g. Discord so pretty sure the problem isn't actually me - copying and pasting code was always a nightmare with formatting - if you called someone at the same time as they called you, who knows what could happen, it couldn't handle the multi-device nature of it all - general latency, everything was slow and with a delay (which I think contributed to the issue just above) - the file viewer sucked immensely, and never was improved - resource use on Mac OS was often abysmal - updates constantly caused further issues, to the point it became a joke with the team when we'd encounter new bugs - delivery of message notification emails was inconsistent if not signed in at all. Sometimes it would be near instant, other times it would be hours later, and sometimes days later. Never had that issue with other services like Slack, so also don't think that was on our end. - ghost calls, where teams would think someone was in a call, but it had been cancelled, causing misc. issues with calling back etc. Damn, what a piece of junk!
jasondozell 4y ago
I use it on a standard spec windows laptop and it works fine… Little bit slow and stuttery in places and definitely a resource hog when screen-sharing but it has a ton of functionality that makes up for it. From what I can figure this is kind of inherent when apps are electron based to be cross-platform. Similar experience with vscode.

by lkois 4y ago

neogodless 4y ago

I don't feel strongly one way or another. As another said, the dismissing of notifications is onerous. But I have no issues with performance, and no apparent bugginess either. No Surface here - custom AMD Ryzen / AMD Radeon desktop. Windows 10 Pro.

the_jeremy 4y ago

search feature is horrendous. Very difficult to remind yourself about something you know you talked about person X with.

sgerenser 4y ago
I work for Microsoft (not on Teams). I actually don’t mind Teams much, it does the job and doesn’t seem much worse than Slack. But the crappy search is absolutely my biggest pet peeve.
- InitialLastName 4y ago
  For being descended from (and forcibly superseding) what was once the genericized trademark for video chat (Skype), it's pretty egregious that "not much worse than Slack" is the best Microsoft can do.
- jiggawatts 4y ago
  All Microsoft products have terrible search, Teams isn’t exceptional in this regard. If you work at Microsoft, and have any influence on the WinDev team, please tell them that the Start menu search is simply shameful. There hasn’t been a single major Windows release — server or client — capable of consistently, reliably, and correctly finding start menu items. Worse, every major release is broken in new and creative ways. This is especially true for a fresh install, because apparently a 64-core server needs several days to index 500 KB of text. (Microsoft support told me this with a straight face, almost verbatim.) Seriously, what is that team doing!? Is this the same code that’s in Outlook and Teams search too? It feels like it…

hbn 4y ago

The video conferencing is pretty good. Everything else is horrible. It's so clunky and limited. Especially coming from Slack at my last job.

MattGaiser 4y ago

Pretty great compared to what? I can make it usable, but Slack has always just worked. As an aside though, on Surface it was Google Meet that destroyed performance. I repeatedly got overheating warnings while in meetings.

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croes 4y ago

MS software works on MS hardware with an MS OS. Who would have thought.

rightbyte 4y ago

Copy pasting code snippets do not work in Teams. It randomly inserts nbsp.

gabythenerd 4y ago

I use slack regularly at work, discord for gaming and teams at university. The worst of all 3 is teams by far, just the startup is too slow.

mattnewton 4y ago

I think so? Everyone I know at companies that have bought it also had employee-lead efforts to buy slack and/or zoom, and employees use those instead, like Adobe for example. I haven’t used it personally but I have only heard very negative things in my network.

wollsmoth 4y ago

Yeah I used it on a MBP for months before I left my last job. It struggled when a lot of people had their camera on but it seemed to improve over time. I wonder if it has to do with OS version or something. I didn't love it, but for video meetings it worked well enough for me.

bigDinosaur 4y ago

Does it let you receive real time notifications from other organisations, or do you only get them from the one you're 'active' in? That was the dumbest thing ever and caused me to constantly miss messages from clients (or my actual employer, if I was signed into the teams space for a client) until I got an email a few hours after someone had sent a message. I just don't get why they'd choose to artificially restrict it with such a deficient model. Other things that sucked: - search never seemed to find anything I wanted, and I never knew why, but I can always find what I want in e.g. Discord so pretty sure the problem isn't actually me - copying and pasting code was always a nightmare with formatting - if you called someone at the same time as they called you, who knows what could happen, it couldn't handle the multi-device nature of it all - general latency, everything was slow and with a delay (which I think contributed to the issue just above) - the file viewer sucked immensely, and never was improved - resource use on Mac OS was often abysmal - updates constantly caused further issues, to the point it became a joke with the team when we'd encounter new bugs - delivery of message notification emails was inconsistent if not signed in at all. Sometimes it would be near instant, other times it would be hours later, and sometimes days later. Never had that issue with other services like Slack, so also don't think that was on our end. - ghost calls, where teams would think someone was in a call, but it had been cancelled, causing misc. issues with calling back etc. Damn, what a piece of junk!

jasondozell 4y ago

I use it on a standard spec windows laptop and it works fine… Little bit slow and stuttery in places and definitely a resource hog when screen-sharing but it has a ton of functionality that makes up for it. From what I can figure this is kind of inherent when apps are electron based to be cross-platform. Similar experience with vscode.