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In my experience Teams is great for calls (both audio and video), horrible for chat. I guess because it's built on top of Skype codebase? (just a guess) But it

In my experience Teams is great for calls (both audio and video), horrible for chat. I guess because it's built on top of Skype codebase? (just a guess) But it's out of the scope for this discussion.

Shadowmist 3y ago
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Lio 3y ago
The chat portion of Teams is so very poorly designed compared to other corporate chat systems I've used. I mean even copy and paste doesn't work correctly. You highlight text, copy it and Teams inserts its own extra content in there. That's basic functionality and it's broken. Or you get tagged into conversations and with no way to mute them. For a busy chat that alert notification can be going off continuously. Of course the alert pop up has been handily placed to cover the unmute icon in calls, so when someone asks you a question you can't answer them. Teams feels like a desperate corporate reaction to Slack with features added as a tickbox exercise but no thought given to actual usability. I never thought that Slack or the whatever Google's chat system is currently called was in any way outstanding until I was made to use the dumpster fire that is Teams. It's a classic example of where the customers, corporate CTOs, are not the end users of a product.
- satellite2 3y ago
  I hope you'll never have to use Webex.
  - Loughla 3y ago
    Sweet fuck after covid I forgot about webex. I think I might have ptsd from that. The Teams/Zoom/Other platform arguments have nothing on how unfriendly, slow, and just overall Trash webex is.
    - foobarchu 3y ago
      Working at a company that still uses it, but with a change on the horizon. It still, in the year 2023, plays an unmutable beep noise for every single participant that joins, with no debouncing whatsoever.
      - Loughla 3y ago
        It astounded me that that company was either unwilling or unable to cash in on work from home during covid. That has to be among history's biggest missed opportunities for a tech company. Anyone here associated with them? Why didn't they step up?

In my experience Teams is great for calls (both audio and video), horrible for chat. I guess because it's built on top of Skype codebase? (just a guess) But it's out of the scope for this discussion.

Shadowmist 3y ago

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Lio 3y ago

The chat portion of Teams is so very poorly designed compared to other corporate chat systems I've used. I mean even copy and paste doesn't work correctly. You highlight text, copy it and Teams inserts its own extra content in there. That's basic functionality and it's broken. Or you get tagged into conversations and with no way to mute them. For a busy chat that alert notification can be going off continuously. Of course the alert pop up has been handily placed to cover the unmute icon in calls, so when someone asks you a question you can't answer them. Teams feels like a desperate corporate reaction to Slack with features added as a tickbox exercise but no thought given to actual usability. I never thought that Slack or the whatever Google's chat system is currently called was in any way outstanding until I was made to use the dumpster fire that is Teams. It's a classic example of where the customers, corporate CTOs, are not the end users of a product.

satellite2 3y ago
I hope you'll never have to use Webex.
- Loughla 3y ago
  Sweet fuck after covid I forgot about webex. I think I might have ptsd from that. The Teams/Zoom/Other platform arguments have nothing on how unfriendly, slow, and just overall Trash webex is.
  - foobarchu 3y ago
    Working at a company that still uses it, but with a change on the horizon. It still, in the year 2023, plays an unmutable beep noise for every single participant that joins, with no debouncing whatsoever.
    - Loughla 3y ago
      It astounded me that that company was either unwilling or unable to cash in on work from home during covid. That has to be among history's biggest missed opportunities for a tech company. Anyone here associated with them? Why didn't they step up?