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Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users
- hammyhavoc 4y agoI'm just reading more reasons to use Matrix protocol.
- wcchandler 4y agoWe’re affected. EDU in Midwest.
- Andaith 4y agoSydney, Aus. Been down for a few hours now.
- quickthrower2 4y agoYep someone I know had to revert to the telephone (which is a better UX always anyway :-))
- BLKNSLVR 4y agoI don't have a desk phone, so email was first option, nipping downstairs to visit them was the follow-up option. Face-to-face interaction wins the UX wars - although it can be a rarely available option.
- 6510 4y agoIt's cool, you can find the speed dial without looking and talk with people without using cpu cycles, internet bandwidth or battery. It also has this cultural vibe to it with people expecting you to get to the point, answer the query and terminate the connection.
- 0xbadcafebee 4y agoIt's hard to understand why Teams is so bad. They have all these engineers, and it's not like it's difficult to make a chat program. Teleconferencing, sure, that's difficult. But most of the problems I hear about is "Teams crashed" or "Wouldn't connect" or "Makes my machine run unbearably slow". How do you end up with such a crap app? And why is the interface so terrible? Can't they afford UX people? And why are there only 6 emoji reacts? Do they realize that people prefer Slack because the experience is better? On top of all that, if you don't have a "Microsoft/Office365 Business" account, you can't even connect/join a meeting from a handful of clients, depending on if you're chatting or teleconferencing. Only Chrome/Edge works on browser, I can't remember if Android works at all without a business account, the Linux client kinda works? It was such a pain when I tried to interview with a Teams-using org that I think I just sent them a Zoom invite, which of course just works everywhere.
- mstipetic 4y agoI’ve read an estimate that teams pulls in five to seven billion yearly revenue. And they still can’t fix it
- saurik 4y ago> They have all these engineers, and it's not like it's difficult to make a chat program. Teleconferencing, sure, that's difficult. FWIW, the UI of your average teleconferencing app is way simpler than a chat app and the state is only relevant in the moment which makes both the front end and backend easier to design due to a lack of search or history. The actual "conferencing" parts of a teleconferencing stack, both the client and the servers, are also nigh unto commodities at this point (as Google open sourced the tech for almost all of the hard problems they solved for Hangouts), while figuring out how to better index file attachments people throw into chat discussions isn't exactly a solved problem.
- hulitu 4y agoEvery IRC program i used had a better UI than Teams. And i used them 20 years ago.
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- kyriakos 4y agoMy laptop battery life drops form 9 hours to 3 when teams is open. At this point it should be considered harmful for the environment.
- hattar 4y agoI went looking for an alternative client but as far as I can tell it doesn’t exist. I would love an extremely lightweight (even CLI) implementation I could use for chat and kick up the hog sized full client for calls or whatever.
- BrissyCoder 4y agoCoders everywhere suddenly become more productive...
- Victerius 4y agoI don't think many programmers are working at this hour (23:39 here on the East Coast).
- afro88 4y agoYeah, who cares about the rest of the world...
- Victerius 4y agoI meant, in North America. I don't know how widespread Teams is outside the Western hemisphere, sorry.
- Panzer04 4y agoMyself, two other Australians and the guy from NZ resent this.
- senectus1 4y agoI must the one the Aussies.
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- FrostKiwi 4y agoWidespread here in Japan, unfortunately.
- jsiaajdsdaa 4y agoGiven MSFT's track record, they should just go home for the day.
- coding123 4y agounaffected atm - team members in CA, FL and CT
- BoardsOfCanada 4y agoIt keeps amazing me that teams and vs code are made at the same company.
- tug0fwar 4y agoOne is contributed to by the community. The other, not so much
- premun 4y agoThat hardly sounds as the main reason for this
- quickthrower2 4y agoI bet the difference is teams has to play ball deeply with Microsofts famously hideous login systems whereas code is a standalone product (Visual Studio is also good, everywhere except the bit where you have to log in to license it).
- urthor 4y agoI've coded up Microsoft's collection of login systems. They are actually not that extraordinarily difficult to use. Whatever is happening in Teams it's its own special sauce of terrible, combined with a complete reluctance to shoot Teams in the head and start again.
- amir734jj 4y agoI work at Microsoft and I don't like Teams. However, I recently checked out Slack to chat with old coworkers and I realized Slack dropped ability to control the desktop remotely. Also, unrelated. Teams on Ubuntu (for personal use) kicks me out after 12 hours and I need to sign in again. I don't know why.
- nichos 4y agoSlack said controlling screens was too difficult. I was sad to see them remove it. They do have the ability to draw on other users screen, something I use much more.
- 0xbadcafebee 4y ago> Slack said controlling screens was too difficult ....wait, what?? Teams, Webex, Zoom... Every other teleconference app can do it, so isn't this like admitting they're either not smart or lazy? I would be totally fine with them removing video altogether and just keeping Huddles, but doing video without the remote control (and their video calls take an eternity to load, wtf?) is real weird
- Gigachad 4y agoI have never seen controlling desktop on teams ever work. It’s alway 10 minutes of messing around followed by the person giving up.
- 0xbadcafebee 4y agoWait, you're right, I remember now, it didn't work for me either. I had to send the user commands to type in a console. "....No no, that's actually one run-on line, not two lines."
- pillefitz 4y agoNever seen it not work
- hunter2_ 4y agoMy client says "We couldn't connect to the internet. Try checking your connection." I mean, sure, perhaps connectivity issues typically occur at a point that I myself can check more readily than Microsoft can check. But how about I save those checks for when every damn thing doesn't work, even if none of those things explicitly suggest that I do so, instead apologizing or blaming themselves. I'd like that.
- willhinsa 4y ago
- fomine3 4y agoOfficial announces https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status/with_replies https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status/with_replies https://status.office.com/ https://status.office.com/
- Victerius 4y ago> https://status.office.com/ https://status.office.com/ On one hand, I am pleasantly surprised to see that this page looks like basic HTML. It reminds me of the way the Internet looked like twenty years ago, which I am nostalgic for (no cookies, no trackers, no Javascr*pt, just basic text and images). On the other hand, I expected the status page of such a ubiquitous software suite as Office to look fancier, with colorful indicators everywhere, or like this: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/e7/e1/27/e7e1270a1f7504199614ffc32860a67d.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/736x/e7/e1/27/e7e1270a1f7504199614ffc32... I wish more websites and apps looked like something out of Star Trek.
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- petre 4y agoThat status page looks like the dashboard in the X-Com game.
- 541 4y agoApparently caused by a broken deployment - https://status.office.com/ https://status.office.com/
- qiqitori 4y agoAnd nothing of value was lost.
- LegitShady 4y agoweirdly I had teams running fine today, but yesterday I couldn't log in at all.
- gwbas1c 4y agoRelated: Anyone having Azure service bus queue issues? I'm finding that, in the last month or so, an instance will spin trying to connect to a service bus queue until it's rebooted or the service recycled.
- jsiaajdsdaa 4y ago
- cocoland2 4y agoSweeping generalizations ?
- urthor 4y agoStrongly, strongly doubt the problem is due to lazy coders. Organizations like this are always, always dysfunctional at the leadership level. ICs don't design the UX or choose the technology for Microsoft teams, senior principal architects and deputy vice president corporate usabilities do. The Vice President in charge of this is allowing their directors to engage in ridiculous design by committee.
- jsiaajdsdaa 4y agoIf you spent even a day at Microsoft, you would see thousands of programmers (and people of every role as well) just phoning it in. It is an absolute nightmare. A terrible place to work for anyone who has a spine, ambition, and sense of pride.
- urthor 4y agoOh definitely. I find though, that if leadership has their head screwed on that kind of thing doesn't happen. Laziness seeps in from the top down.
- tnzk 4y agoWhat is the secret sauce for such a horrible company to stay incredibly profitable so long?
- strangeattractr 4y agoUnparalleled distribution channels? Windows, Word and Excel are core to almost every business on the planet. I was surprised to see the amount of computing that is done in excel in banks. They can launch half-baked offerings bundled into 365 like Teams that are just good enough to stop people buying the competing product and have 100m users instantly. It's remarkable how bad things like SharePoint and OneDrive are and yet they likely have more users than 99% of B2B applications.
- capybara_2020 4y agoHas anyone had a good experience with Microsoft's online products? I tried using Office 365 recently for a small side project after using Google apps for years. Their email has like 5-10 messages come in every day about hotfixes, updates etc. Even after turning everything off, I still get a few emails from them every few days. Missed important emails in all that noise. Outlook randomly decided to delete all my emails on my phone for some reason. I had to relogin and resync everything. Did not even realize this had happened and did not realize till a week later that I again missed a few important emails. Lets not even get into Teams. Works only on Edge on a Desktop. Plus, starting a meeting seems to be rocket science. Still have not figured out how to blur the background in Teams. Let me not even get started on Onedrive, the 1TB free storage is what drew me to try them out. Problem is 10MB took 1 hour to sync. How hard can syncing be...Google does it, Dropbox does it without any issues on Windows. But Microsoft cannot... Sorry for the rant, but MS literally made me kill that side project and I am bitter about it. I just cannot figure out how it can be this bad and how MS is still surviving.
- mbesto 4y agoIf you have been historically comfortable with MS Outlook, then O365's email service is far superior in every imaginable possible over GSuite...with ONE big exception of the web interface. But alas, I don't need a web interface for an application I might use 12hrs/day. Teams/OneDrive is hot garbage.
- imperialdrive 4y agoEh hem... spam functionality tho? It's a killer, and Google has it down pretty well for obvious reasons.
- seanhunter 4y agoI wonder how anyone will be able to tell the difference.
- randcraw 4y agoFirst, the Yammer Communities (inside the Teams app) disappeared, but the rest of Teams was unaffected. Then I was able to access the communities through a native Yammer app, but then Yammer objected to my access as being forbidden, it shut me out, and after my second failed login attempt, it locked my account so now I can't access any part of Teams or Yammer. This was about 9 PM EDT today, outside Philadelphia. Should I count myself LUCKY?
- himekamitoo 4y agoi have to restart my pc
- thewileyone 4y ago"Thousands of users" is a under estimation by a factor of thousands.
- throwaway23234 4y agoWhile we're here. Does anyone else notice that on a mac it doesn't support the completely basic concept of a red notification dot in the application bar? People literally wait hours when they msg me because - I don't get notified when the app is just sitting there running.
- nanaruto 4y ago