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Is it? Discord seems to be way better Teams are good enough

by tester756 2y ago

etchalon 2y ago
No one I know who has been migrated to Teams has been happy about that change.
- wkat4242 2y ago
  +1. The only thing better about teams is that it comes 'free' with Microsoft 365. Though you can now take that without it for about 1.50 per month less. But slack costs a lot more. On paper they can do the same but slack is just so much better in terms of UX. Though i do hate that they dropped the IRC bridge. I have been active in slack communities a lot less as a result. I always have my IRC open but not slack.
  - rhubarbtree 2y ago
    For companies using teams rather than slack: why not use excel rather than a CRM? You'll save lots of money. Use Google hangouts instead of Zoom. Free videocalling, why worry about quality? It's not clear to me that you actually save money by using worse technology, if it takes more time to do stuff (after you've restarted teams three times to try to get share screen to work, for example).
    - wkat4242 2y ago
      Yes but that money you waste doesn't come out of the budget of the guy proudly proclaiming to have saved a lot of money :) And it's very hard to quantify. Internalise the profits, externalise the negatives. It's what companies do but also what departments do within companies.
orphea 2y ago
Discord seems to be way better You can't be serious. The search alone makes it atrocious for anything other than game servers. It's a problem enough people are trying to use Discord where they should have used proper forums.
- tester756 2y ago
  Yet projects like LLVM use it
  - orphea 2y ago
    Large projects and companies are making dumb decisions all the time.
    - tester756 2y ago
      How is this dumb idea when Discord is top1 communicator except maybe for search, but it isnt that terrible
      - orphea 2y ago
        Because Discord is designed around near real-time communication, it simply doesn't work as a knowledge database. Unless, of course, you want to deal with the same questions again, and again, and again. In which case, sure, use whatever you want.
theasisa 2y ago
I won't work for a company where I'm forced to use Teams. It is beyond awful
theasisa 2y ago
I won't work for a company where I'm forced to use Teams. It is beyond awful.

Is it? Discord seems to be way better Teams are good enough

etchalon 2y ago

No one I know who has been migrated to Teams has been happy about that change.

wkat4242 2y ago
+1. The only thing better about teams is that it comes 'free' with Microsoft 365. Though you can now take that without it for about 1.50 per month less. But slack costs a lot more. On paper they can do the same but slack is just so much better in terms of UX. Though i do hate that they dropped the IRC bridge. I have been active in slack communities a lot less as a result. I always have my IRC open but not slack.
- rhubarbtree 2y ago
  For companies using teams rather than slack: why not use excel rather than a CRM? You'll save lots of money. Use Google hangouts instead of Zoom. Free videocalling, why worry about quality? It's not clear to me that you actually save money by using worse technology, if it takes more time to do stuff (after you've restarted teams three times to try to get share screen to work, for example).
  - wkat4242 2y ago
    Yes but that money you waste doesn't come out of the budget of the guy proudly proclaiming to have saved a lot of money :) And it's very hard to quantify. Internalise the profits, externalise the negatives. It's what companies do but also what departments do within companies.

orphea 2y ago

Discord seems to be way better You can't be serious. The search alone makes it atrocious for anything other than game servers. It's a problem enough people are trying to use Discord where they should have used proper forums.

tester756 2y ago
Yet projects like LLVM use it
- orphea 2y ago
  Large projects and companies are making dumb decisions all the time.
  - tester756 2y ago
    How is this dumb idea when Discord is top1 communicator except maybe for search, but it isnt that terrible
    - orphea 2y ago
      Because Discord is designed around near real-time communication, it simply doesn't work as a knowledge database. Unless, of course, you want to deal with the same questions again, and again, and again. In which case, sure, use whatever you want.

theasisa 2y ago

I won't work for a company where I'm forced to use Teams. It is beyond awful

theasisa 2y ago

I won't work for a company where I'm forced to use Teams. It is beyond awful.