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It’s such a depressing product that has become an industry standard. Shame on all of us.
by lostlogin 3y ago
It’s such a depressing product that has become an industry standard. Shame on all of us.
- ghosty141 3y agoIts the most awful „chat“ program I‘ve ever used. Especially the horrible linux support is a shame.
- synergy20 3y agofor me the browser version worked fine on all os, nothing fancy,but get the job done
- dijit 3y agoExcept it doesn't work on Firefox... or Safari. (FD: it didn't work on either last I checked, which was 4 months ago because I migrated my org off Teams 4 months ago;; I'm not willing to check if thats changed, but not having support for years is equally unacceptable, I don't care if they've improved in your eyes now--- TL;DR: inb4 "IT WORKS NOW")
- ladyanita22 3y agoAt least the Linux community is steeping up to do the work Microsoft doesn't want to. https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux
- bigpeopleareold 3y agoI use it and it's nice, but as long as it points to web teams, it will inherit all the instability issues I have had with Teams, just without anyway to easily back out of it, unlike a regular browser.
- kyawzazaw 3y agoI would think linux support is nowhere on their list of priorities.
- k4rli 3y agoThere is no Linux support. The desktop app got discontinued at least a year ago.
- kenjackson 3y agoWhat’s the problem with it? It seems like one of the better faster improving products I use on a daily basis.
- blibble 3y agothere's that hilarious video where they boast the complete rewrite only takes 9 seconds to open and only 1.2 seconds to switch chats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT7nnXej2K4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT7nnXej2K4 what is it even doing? both should be instant mIRC opened instantly on a 1995 PC
- probably_satan 3y agoLol remember when Microsoft tried to re-invent IRC in the 90s? How long has Microsoft been failing at IRC now (which is basically what web chat is) Microsoft excels only at stealing existing tech, doing a horrible job at it, rebranding it as their own and then engaging in predatory litigation to try to steal the rights to it. I mean they aren't the only ones who do that, but at least make it better in some way
- ratg13 3y agoDisagree. ComicChat was a great product, and a great way to introduce non-tech people to IRC.
- lostlogin 3y ago> there's that hilarious video It’s was just painful, and then I saw that the account holder is Microsoft. Is this correct? That’s like a messed up version of Apple’s ‘it’s 75% faster’ graphs but with more of your time wasted watching a video showing how bad they were and and still are.
- lostlogin 3y agoTry a call with several participants where one has a low speed connection. Try open a Word doc. The layout is screwed, or is it? Online Word, the app and Teams all show it differently. Try drag and drop a document onto it on a Mac - that’s broken (may have been fixed in last update). Try have the app respond in less than 3 seconds after a click, on a gigabit connection. Try download a large folder from Teams. Good luck - it will crap out. Every day is another paper cut. I don’t have a better platform to go to but I do wonder if a network share and any other chat app would replace Teams, and we are looking into that.
- __turbobrew__ 3y agoLast time I checked google meet was the only meeting platform where I could join a meeting without creating an account and also it works natively in Firefox on linux. Everything else either requires installing an app, using a browser other than firefox, or making an account.
- lostlogin 3y agoI agree, Google Meet works well with no account. It has a weird habit of grabbing my phone microphone when I join from my laptop, but other than that, it’s good.
- floydnoel 3y agoBrave's video chat service works for me in that situation, but i suppose you’re probably referring to just the largest players.
- dijit 3y agojitsi is also excellent, and its FOSS too.
- yobid20 3y agoExcept that it is completely unreliable, where there's always 1 or 2 users who it doesn't work for and drops steams forcing all to switch to something else, and also codebase is a total mess of tightly coupled spaghetti code hacks. Dont recommend anyone waste their time on trying to use it.
- jjeaff 3y agoZoom also does not require an account nor does it require installing their software, although they try to hide that feature.