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Teams isn’t great compared to Slack for async text chats, however the video conferencing is actually quite good and I didn’t have any real issues moving from Zo

Teams isn’t great compared to Slack for async text chats, however the video conferencing is actually quite good and I didn’t have any real issues moving from Zoom to it.

explorigin 4y ago
Background noise cancellation is pretty bad compared to zoom. Teams seems to flake out more when sharing desktops than zoom does (though I've had issues with both).
- testudovictoria 4y ago
  I went from a company that used Google Hangouts, which is like using pen and paper relatively speaking, to trying to use Slack. Slack wasn't official, but it was an allowed form of communication. People who didn't have the vested interested just couldn't figure it out. So while I preferred Slack, having to hold everyone's hands through basic functionality was awful. Now I'm at a place that uses Teams. I don't think Teams is perfect, but I feel like Teams gets extra hate just because it's Teams. The best feature in my opinion is the group thread feature. Having people able to start a threaded conversation by default gives a lot of granular control over what notifications I receive by default.
  - explorigin 4y ago
    Coming from Slack, group threads is annoying. Teams gets extra hate because it's often forced upon engineers for cost-saving measures. Slack has a lot of nice features that help maintain a company's remote-work culture. Teams is just an organized collaboration tool. There's a huge difference. When Teams was forced upon us at my company, it was a trash product that I would be ashamed to release. It crashed a lot. It was slow. Background noise cancellation was non-existent. Scroll-back history was nearly impossible. Search was trash. Of these things, it's now more stable and has background noise cancellation, but it's still slower and more difficult to use with garbage search and a confusing interface to find the team you're looking for. Before we had teams, there was a lot of talk in the company of "breaking down the silos". Well teams has silos built-in. It literally makes it harder to find the right person or team to talk to just by how it's designed.
Semaphor 4y ago
> Teams isn’t great compared to Slack for async text chats It’s slowly starting to become usable, though. After several years, you can now actually use the search function.
stavros 4y ago
And Slack isn't great compared to Zulip, but we make do.
dmonitor 4y ago
I don't think Teams even has a sound test. It just places a call with a microsoft bot that repeats the audio back.
EFreethought 4y ago
We use Teams at my employer (major consulting firm spun out of a big accounting firm). The chat and video meetings work pretty well. I hate the "Teams" aspect of it, which is like group chat. A lot of people start new topics when they should be replying to an existing topic. Bad UI there. (Along the side you have "Activity", "Chat", "Teams", "Calendar", "Calls" and "Files". So you have something called "Teams" inside something called "Teams". More ambiguity is not what I need in my life.) But I really hate the fact that it is integrated with sharepit, which in my opinion really is the worst piece of software ever made. People love to add files and directory trees to it, and as far as I know there is no way to bookmark anything. Googling it just gives you links to bookmark messages.

Teams isn’t great compared to Slack for async text chats, however the video conferencing is actually quite good and I didn’t have any real issues moving from Zoom to it.

explorigin 4y ago

Background noise cancellation is pretty bad compared to zoom. Teams seems to flake out more when sharing desktops than zoom does (though I've had issues with both).

testudovictoria 4y ago
I went from a company that used Google Hangouts, which is like using pen and paper relatively speaking, to trying to use Slack. Slack wasn't official, but it was an allowed form of communication. People who didn't have the vested interested just couldn't figure it out. So while I preferred Slack, having to hold everyone's hands through basic functionality was awful. Now I'm at a place that uses Teams. I don't think Teams is perfect, but I feel like Teams gets extra hate just because it's Teams. The best feature in my opinion is the group thread feature. Having people able to start a threaded conversation by default gives a lot of granular control over what notifications I receive by default.
- explorigin 4y ago
  Coming from Slack, group threads is annoying. Teams gets extra hate because it's often forced upon engineers for cost-saving measures. Slack has a lot of nice features that help maintain a company's remote-work culture. Teams is just an organized collaboration tool. There's a huge difference. When Teams was forced upon us at my company, it was a trash product that I would be ashamed to release. It crashed a lot. It was slow. Background noise cancellation was non-existent. Scroll-back history was nearly impossible. Search was trash. Of these things, it's now more stable and has background noise cancellation, but it's still slower and more difficult to use with garbage search and a confusing interface to find the team you're looking for. Before we had teams, there was a lot of talk in the company of "breaking down the silos". Well teams has silos built-in. It literally makes it harder to find the right person or team to talk to just by how it's designed.

Semaphor 4y ago

> Teams isn’t great compared to Slack for async text chats It’s slowly starting to become usable, though. After several years, you can now actually use the search function.

stavros 4y ago

And Slack isn't great compared to Zulip, but we make do.

dmonitor 4y ago

I don't think Teams even has a sound test. It just places a call with a microsoft bot that repeats the audio back.

EFreethought 4y ago

We use Teams at my employer (major consulting firm spun out of a big accounting firm). The chat and video meetings work pretty well. I hate the "Teams" aspect of it, which is like group chat. A lot of people start new topics when they should be replying to an existing topic. Bad UI there. (Along the side you have "Activity", "Chat", "Teams", "Calendar", "Calls" and "Files". So you have something called "Teams" inside something called "Teams". More ambiguity is not what I need in my life.) But I really hate the fact that it is integrated with sharepit, which in my opinion really is the worst piece of software ever made. People love to add files and directory trees to it, and as far as I know there is no way to bookmark anything. Googling it just gives you links to bookmark messages.