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Teams would be fine with two things: 1) Let a Team channel be a normal-ass chat instead of some weird forum-in-a-chat-interface. Shit gets lost. Creating a new
by vundercind 3y ago
Teams would be fine with two things:
1) Let a Team channel be a normal-ass chat instead of some weird forum-in-a-chat-interface. Shit gets lost. Creating a new post feels very formal and high friction, because it’ll push everything else out of view (another, minor problem: teams’ padding and whitespace is way out of control). Make it configurable! That’s ok. The weird chat-as-forum thing is fine for a very low-traffic announcements channel (and very bad for anything else) so having it as an option is alright.
2) Allow “create a meeting for this Teams channel” that puts any meeting chat directly in the channel.
These two problems force conversations away from the “Team” and into meeting-specific chats and DMs. It’s really, really bad. It silos knowledge and makes it hard to tell wtf is going on.
Teams is horrible for distributed or hybrid work because of these two deficiencies.
- a1o 3y agoThere is probably some feature request somewhere in Microsoft weird tech channel with thousands of comments and upvotes and some MS person appearing every three years to let us know they "are looking into it".
- vundercind 3y agoThere were a couple years-old ones on public feature request sites last I checked. They’re ignoring them. It’s frustrating because Teams can already do normal chat rooms, and can already schedule meetings. Just not in the most-useful places to have those two features. It’s not brand-new feature development from scratch.
- ta1243 3y agoIt's probably somewhere in a Teams channel, and nobody in microsoft can actually find it.
- stackskipton 3y agoOn Number 2, you can schedule a meeting in a channel that have meeting show in the channel and keep the chat there.
- ClimaxGravely 3y ago2) Is that the equivalent of a slack huddle?
- vundercind 3y agoNah, you can schedule meetings (like, coordinate it through Outlook with a scheduler tool and the invite emails auto send and all that) in a chat, but not a Team channel. Chats in Teams are not in a Team (god the terminology gets confusing) but are more ad-hoc, like direct or group messages. You can pin chats but there’s no “THIS is THE ‘general’ chat for project X, this is THE support chat” et c that looks the same for everyone. The chat interface is separate from the Teams and Team channels. You can’t create a meeting from a Team channel (at least, I’ve not seen a way). All they goddamn need is a way to permanently attach Chat rooms to a Team, as a channel, basically. The channels are these weird forced-threaded things that are more like… blogging? With comments? In a chat interface? Or a forum but it’s impossible to follow several threads because of the interface? They’re horrid and have a UI so bizarre that I’d buy it as parody.
- ClimaxGravely 3y agoI had no idea but I haven't used teams since about 2018. I guess it might have changed considerably.
- apple4ever 3y agoOH MY GOSH yes. I first started using Teams and these two things drive me crazy. Just make it like Slack, and Discord, etc. its a solved problem!