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I briefly led an underground incentive to use something other than Teams among the engineers at a previous employer. It gathered quite a bit of steam even thoug
by kqr 3y ago
I briefly led an underground incentive to use something other than Teams among the engineers at a previous employer. It gathered quite a bit of steam even though none of the alternatives proposed were great. Tells you what people think of Teams!
(It petered out when my priorities shifted, though, so I guess that tells you how much bandwidth people actually have for caring about their instant messaging. (There had already been a successful underground movement to use something other than Teams for video conferencing.))
- lbriner 3y agoPersonally, I don't mind if a tool is rubbish as long as I can use the bits I need to use and the rest doesn't get in my way. I don't like Teams but mostly keep to chat and video calls and that works fine. Sure, there is other stuff that might be junk like files, tasks and apps but I just don't use that. That is the old adage about keeping the main thing the main thing. It depresses me how many major apps doesn't even do the basics well, either performance is terrible or the UX is over-complicated.
- zokier 3y ago> It depresses me how many major apps doesn't even do the basics well, either performance is terrible or the UX is over-complicated Teams definitely falls in this category. It is dog-slow, but even worse for a chat application it randomly just drops messages(!) quietly(!!) which makes for very confusing discussion threads when different people have different sets of messages. That is arguably the very most basic feature that one can expect from chat, and Teams fumbles even it.
- user_named 3y agoYou didn't just propose Slack?