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Yup. Immediately a negative impression from me. Doesn't mean it won't sell, congrats to OP, but god I hate everything about Teams. Right now it's showing me
by duxup 2y ago
Yup. Immediately a negative impression from me.
Doesn't mean it won't sell, congrats to OP, but god I hate everything about Teams.
Right now it's showing me calendar items with times that are wrong, they'll switch to the right time in a few minutes... probably. I didn't change time zones, I didn't do anything, it's just something wonky about their new calendar setup. If the time updates I'll click to open the calendar item, and it won't show me the join link to join the meeting ... well eventually it will pop in there, maybe.
It's not just annoyingly designed and slow, it's constantly buggy with new and exciting bugs every few months.
- ValentinPearce 2y agoLast week there were so many apps added to my teams that I couldn't see the chats anymore.
- szundi 2y ago[dead]
- yieldcrv 2y agoShould have repented, because now you’re in hell
- Bombthecat 2y agoTeams is the old new SharePoint, and it will be the same unmanageable mess
- multjoy 2y agoLotus Notes enters the chat
- MrJohz 2y agoAh, that's probably related to the bug I'm seeing where I've got my Teams calendar synced to my phone, but about half of the events show up an hour later or earlier. Isn't getting this right, like, _the_ purpose of a calendar?
- malfist 2y agoMicrosoft recently claimed 30% of their code was AI written. Maybe this is what you get when your systems are non-deterministic
- liquidpele 2y agoHaving interviewed many people from there, I can only assume they hire anyone with a pulse and give them major features to write in a language they don’t know.
- duxup 2y agoMight be time for me to apply ...
- neilv 2y agoIf they don't dogfood it (or dogpoop it, in this case), that would be one away to avoid working at a company where you have to use Microsoft Teams.
- cjbgkagh 2y agoI try to explain to people how consistent under-market salaries and a combative work environment has thoroughly brain drained Microsoft. It's really hard to turn that around.
- andai 2y agoFrom using their products it seems they just don't value excellence. I think everything else is downstream of that (e.g. if they did, they'd pay more, optimize the work environment, etc.).
- cjbgkagh 2y agoExcellence is threatening to those who have prioritized politicking above all else so they'll actively work against it.
- osigurdson 2y agoThis seems to be a very common response. I definitely believe it but Teams seems ok to me - can make video calls and do text chats. That is all I need it to do, really. Maybe I just haven't used Zoom enough to know what I am missing.
- phatskat 2y agoI think it’s less that you’re missing something Zoom does better, it’s mostly that Teams is a poor replacement for any calendar, messaging app, or video call service. It does those things “fine”, but I wouldn’t say it does any of them _well_.
- duxup 2y agoI actually don't like zoom either ;) Video conferencing for me Teams isn't the issue as much as it is a compromise when it comes to everything else.
- Aeolun 2y agoHaving used better solutions for those things in the past, being forced to use Teams feels like a significant step back.
- 9dev 2y agoI miss slack so much. Their attention to detail makes for a much more enjoyable product, paying for something we get for free with 365… still. I don’t know if Microsoft should be content with a product that’s so awful people literally only use it because of network effects.
- mulderc 2y agoI always found slack to be sort of awful and hated it. Then I used teams and understood that slack was actually a decent version of such apps.
- throwaway7783 2y ago
- SoftTalker 2y agoI was once 5 hours late to a fairly important meeting because the Teams calendar was showing the time in UTC instead of my zone. Never determined why.
- phatskat 2y agoWhenever I schedule a meeting, Teams warns me that some attendees are in a different time zone. Except they aren’t. I’ve confirmed with coworkers and checking our settings. And then there’s the “helpful” way teams resets the calendar view: let’s say I’m going back through calls from last week to see how long they took. In Teams, I go back a week, click the calendar item, record the time in my app, then go back to the calendar view and…I’m on this week. Neat. Intuitive.
- phkahler 2y ago>> Whenever I schedule a meeting, Teams warns me that some attendees are in a different time zone. Are they on a VPN to another time zone?
- phatskat 2y agoFunny enough, we’re all on the same VPN in the same state.
- 43920 2y agoI used to have a problem very similar to this, where the "working hours" Teams showed on my profile were in the wrong time zone. It turned out the solution was to go deep into some submenu of the Microsoft account settings website (_not_ anywhere in the actual Teams app) and edit the account time zone preferences, so perhaps look into that and make sure those match the local settings in the Teams app.
- phatskat 2y agoI appreciate it but at this point I’ve given up on it. It doesn’t cause any issues, or hasn’t thus far, outside of the annoying nag. That said, if I ever get to digging in again I’ll check in to those settings - thanks!
- olav 2y agoFor thirty years now, the world knows that the last company to trust calendars and mail is Microsoft and yet they are all over the place. I have lost all hope for humanity‘s future.
- 43920 2y agoMy personal favorite UX-failure-of-the-moment in Teams: If I open the teams tab > Browse, it shows a big list of company-wide channels that I could join. There's a search box, but unlike any normal search box, it only does a prefix search, so if your channel is named "some test channel", and you search for "test", it doesn't find it! Several times I've given up at guessing the right channel name and had to ask coworkers to tell me the exact name in order to join.
- ethbr1 2y agoThe number of new and novel ways companies (Microsoft and Apple specifically) have found to screw up search is mind boggling. And we're not talking edge cases, just "It's been solved since the 60s" meat and potato use cases.
- chii 2y ago> to screw up search is mind boggling. it's because they hired "frontend" developers to develop these features, likely someone with little actual compsci experience, and have little to no room to make the feature and under a tight deadline.
- bythreads 2y agoAh the good old us vs them thing popping up again. Manners
- b112 2y agoDon't expect sprinters to care about marathon issues.
- the_sleaze_ 2y agoThe article is about a product written in Express(Node) and React. Tell me more about "frontend" developers please.
- esperent 2y ago