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Every Teams team has a backed Sharepoint site. Hard to watch videos in a Teams team. Why are they files? Two slightly different styles between teams and chats

Every Teams team has a backed Sharepoint site. Hard to watch videos in a Teams team. Why are they files? Two slightly different styles between teams and chats. I also heard they use two separate DBMSes between chats and teams. Pasting formatted code is an exercise in patience. Steps: Click More Formatting Click language dropdown Click language Paste code Click Insert Click send message (it doesn't focus) Discord lets you type three backticks, the language, and three backticks again. No mouse clicks required. Images randomly fail to load. Teams compresses PNGs to JPGs when it sends it to clients, so screenshots of code look like shit. Downloading it gives you the original file. You can only pin up to 15 chats. What product manager at Microsoft decided this completely arbitrary number that obviously is not a technical limitation at the time? Viewing a thread just sucks. Messages don't autoscroll when there's a new message. Good luck following a busy thread. Pasting in stuff from a site pastes formatted. Need to do ctrl-shift-v to paste unformatted. I have yet figured out the behavior of how inline code is supposed to work. Inconsistently it decides to close the block with a closing backtick. Sometimes it ignores it. Their webhook endpoint (for sending in messages to channels) can return a 200 if there is actually a problem delivering the message. I would rather use Slack, IRC, Discord, or even Matrix to name a few.

bshacklett 3y ago
For small snippets, three backticks and a space works. My biggest gripe is notifications. There’s no distinction between a direct message and a group chat, including meeting chats. To stop being pinged every time anyone talks to anyone else, you have to disable chat notifications completely. And yes… team channels exist, but very few people actually use them, because ad-hoc group chats are just so much easier. It’s the same with Slack, except that Slack has a reasonable mechanism for handling notifications.

bshacklett 3y ago

For small snippets, three backticks and a space works. My biggest gripe is notifications. There’s no distinction between a direct message and a group chat, including meeting chats. To stop being pinged every time anyone talks to anyone else, you have to disable chat notifications completely. And yes… team channels exist, but very few people actually use them, because ad-hoc group chats are just so much easier. It’s the same with Slack, except that Slack has a reasonable mechanism for handling notifications.