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There are a couple things that Teams hurts my feelings on, coming recently from Slack. The biggest one, by far, is the terrible Outlook meeting handling. We h
by rootusrootus 4y ago
There are a couple things that Teams hurts my feelings on, coming recently from Slack. The biggest one, by far, is the terrible Outlook meeting handling. We had a Slack plugin that would reliably tell me about meetings before they started, give me a link to go directly to the zoom call, notify me instantly when I was invited to a new meeting and let me decide on the spot if I wanted to decline or accept. All within Slack. Great for portability.
The other one is notifications. I'm on a Mac, and I have no idea why Teams can't make basic notifications work. Slack would do the red dot on the icon for non-urgent notifications, and then bounce the icon for DMs and mentions. Teams will make a noise, but the majority of the time it will not reliably even put a notification dot on the icon, much less bounce it. Pretty sure it's because I have two instances of Teams running on different computers, so it gets confused.
I'm back to missing meetings sometimes, unfortunately, because Outlook has always been hit-or miss for me on meeting reminders. It does not help that I have a 49 inch screen so the little pop-up is way off to the right. When I'm focused, I can miss that for many minutes. And even when I do look in Teams for an Outlook meeting, it actually presents the URL for the zoom meeting as plain text, not clickable. Sigh. Such a terrible user experience.
Slack has warts, too, but Teams feels like state of the art from about 10 years ago.