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I couldn't disagree more with this post. Teams offers such a better solution than Slack for virtually everything, in my opinion. Slack's voice/video chat is a t

I couldn't disagree more with this post. Teams offers such a better solution than Slack for virtually everything, in my opinion. Slack's voice/video chat is a toy, and it's unbelievably slow and unreliable. I am so glad I don't work for a company that uses Slack anymore.

progman32 4y ago
It's very interesting how different people's experiences are. I worked for a company that used both Slack and Teams, and Teams always caused issues, was unstable, and had many video problems. Slack worked much more reliably for us. Perhaps it's a platform issue? Nobody in our workplace used Windows, everyone was either Linux or OSX.
- version_five 4y ago
  I've found teams > slack for video and stability on OSX, but slack has a better UI. Both have been mostly unusable for me on linux though I think it may also be machine dependent (I had an XPS13). I've never tried them with windows
  - ethbr0 4y ago
    The biggest problem with Teams is everything outside of chat/video that it tries to do. Did you know Teams had apps? Inside of it?! 90% of the problems I encounter with Teams (bad UX, crashing, freezing, corrupted sessions) would be removed if they deleted every feature outside of chat/video and more loosely coupled themselves to Office365/Exchange.
  - progman32 4y ago
    I think the Linux thing is machine dependent. I used a Dell Latitude something-or-other (7490? idk) for about 3 years, but it was the version that shipped with Ubuntu. Rock solid on Slack, and Teams mostly just had company-wide issues for us. But my colleague with the same model laptop and same Ubuntu version had no end to trouble with both Slack and Teams - turns out, the Windows version of the laptop had different internals and it struggled mightily. It was mostly GPU issues. Just thought that was interesting, mine is probably not a useful anecdote.
- superfrank 4y ago
  I'm with you, man. I went Skype -> Hipchat -> Slack -> Hipchat -> Teams -> Slack and feel Slack is the superior tool.
  - _vbnz 4y ago
    Yeah, Hipchat and Flowdock were reasonable Slack alternatives but Teams is a complete nightmare.
TideAd 4y ago
I liked the Teams video calls. But did you ever try to search for a message in a conversation, and have it give you just the message you wanted, without any surrounding context? Or have you ever tried to scroll through chat history, only for it to lazy-load 10 messages at a time, making you spend 5 minutes scrolling constantly to find a conversation from a few months ago? Teams would even lose my messages completely from time to time. It was honestly hard to believe how janky it was.
- jodrellblank 4y ago
  > But did you ever try to search for a message in a conversation, and have it give you just the message you wanted, without any surrounding context? Yes; they seem to have fixed that now, I don’t know when but I was surprised when it took me to the conversation with context suddenly.
happymellon 4y ago
Teams complains that my driver is out of date, but will only do it when I go to share my screen. Do I stop my presentation so that I update my driver, or do I wait until next time I want to share my screen and interrupt then?

progman32 4y ago

It's very interesting how different people's experiences are. I worked for a company that used both Slack and Teams, and Teams always caused issues, was unstable, and had many video problems. Slack worked much more reliably for us. Perhaps it's a platform issue? Nobody in our workplace used Windows, everyone was either Linux or OSX.

version_five 4y ago
I've found teams > slack for video and stability on OSX, but slack has a better UI. Both have been mostly unusable for me on linux though I think it may also be machine dependent (I had an XPS13). I've never tried them with windows
- ethbr0 4y ago
  The biggest problem with Teams is everything outside of chat/video that it tries to do. Did you know Teams had apps? Inside of it?! 90% of the problems I encounter with Teams (bad UX, crashing, freezing, corrupted sessions) would be removed if they deleted every feature outside of chat/video and more loosely coupled themselves to Office365/Exchange.
- progman32 4y ago
  I think the Linux thing is machine dependent. I used a Dell Latitude something-or-other (7490? idk) for about 3 years, but it was the version that shipped with Ubuntu. Rock solid on Slack, and Teams mostly just had company-wide issues for us. But my colleague with the same model laptop and same Ubuntu version had no end to trouble with both Slack and Teams - turns out, the Windows version of the laptop had different internals and it struggled mightily. It was mostly GPU issues. Just thought that was interesting, mine is probably not a useful anecdote.
superfrank 4y ago
I'm with you, man. I went Skype -> Hipchat -> Slack -> Hipchat -> Teams -> Slack and feel Slack is the superior tool.
- _vbnz 4y ago
  Yeah, Hipchat and Flowdock were reasonable Slack alternatives but Teams is a complete nightmare.

TideAd 4y ago

I liked the Teams video calls. But did you ever try to search for a message in a conversation, and have it give you just the message you wanted, without any surrounding context? Or have you ever tried to scroll through chat history, only for it to lazy-load 10 messages at a time, making you spend 5 minutes scrolling constantly to find a conversation from a few months ago? Teams would even lose my messages completely from time to time. It was honestly hard to believe how janky it was.

jodrellblank 4y ago
> But did you ever try to search for a message in a conversation, and have it give you just the message you wanted, without any surrounding context? Yes; they seem to have fixed that now, I don’t know when but I was surprised when it took me to the conversation with context suddenly.

happymellon 4y ago

Teams complains that my driver is out of date, but will only do it when I go to share my screen. Do I stop my presentation so that I update my driver, or do I wait until next time I want to share my screen and interrupt then?