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Element Matrix Services Launches Bridging for Microsoft Teams

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Re: Element Matrix Services Launches Bridging for Microsoft Teams

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Post by Jtsummers »

ashton314 wrote: post #27

Recently had to start using MS Teams at work. What a terrible UX: truncated message widths, even for code. No syntax highlighting, markdown-ish syntax only works when you type it in their little editor—when you paste it in it doesn't format, isn't smart enough to auto-start a new message when I start typing, hides bottom of message—even when there's only one line left, etc. Just a bunch of little stupid things that a…

The markdown formatting doesn't even work consistently. Some days things show up bold, some days they don't, some days I get inline code, some days I don't. It's very random and seems to be based on my typing speed at the time. That is, type ` and then wait a moment before typing the next bit and it works more reliably, but if I type like normal (around 100 wpm) it rarely registers properly.

Re: Element Matrix Services Launches Bridging for Microsoft Teams

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Post by danmur »

Jtsummers wrote: post #31
ashton314 wrote: post #27

Recently had to start using MS Teams at work. What a terrible UX: truncated message widths, even for code. No syntax highlighting, markdown-ish syntax only works when you type it in their little editor—when you paste it in it doesn't format, isn't smart enough to auto-start a new message when I start typing, hides bottom of message—even when there's only one line left, etc. Just a bunch of little stupid things that a…

The markdown formatting doesn't even work consistently. Some days things show up bold, some days they don't, some days I get inline code, some days I don't. It's very random and seems to be based on my typing speed at the time. That is, type ` and then wait a moment before typing the next bit and it works more reliably, but if I type like normal (around 100 wpm) it rarely registers properly.

Yes! What is with that inline code thing? The only time single backticks seem to work is when I don't want them to.

Re: Element Matrix Services Launches Bridging for Microsoft Teams

#34

Post by pitterpatter »

ashton314 wrote: post #27

Recently had to start using MS Teams at work. What a terrible UX: truncated message widths, even for code. No syntax highlighting, markdown-ish syntax only works when you type it in their little editor—when you paste it in it doesn't format, isn't smart enough to auto-start a new message when I start typing, hides bottom of message—even when there's only one line left, etc. Just a bunch of little stupid things that a…

I hate search in Teams. It is the worst I've seen in a chat app.

The search result will only show you the single message it matched but not all the other messages around it! The only option is literally scrolling up but the performance just degrades as you go further back.

Like I can tolerate a lot but damn. That always frustrates me to no end.

Re: Element Matrix Services Launches Bridging for Microsoft Teams

#35

Post by ridethebike »

Jtsummers wrote: post #31
ashton314 wrote: post #27

Recently had to start using MS Teams at work. What a terrible UX: truncated message widths, even for code. No syntax highlighting, markdown-ish syntax only works when you type it in their little editor—when you paste it in it doesn't format, isn't smart enough to auto-start a new message when I start typing, hides bottom of message—even when there's only one line left, etc. Just a bunch of little stupid things that a…

The markdown formatting doesn't even work consistently. Some days things show up bold, some days they don't, some days I get inline code, some days I don't. It's very random and seems to be based on my typing speed at the time. That is, type ` and then wait a moment before typing the next bit and it works more reliably, but if I type like normal (around 100 wpm) it rarely registers properly.

Microsoft Teams

Cons: slow, consumes lot of memory plus all of the above

Pros: not as buggy as Skype for Business

Re: Element Matrix Services Launches Bridging for Microsoft Teams

#36

Post by pkulak »

kovek wrote: post #14

There needs to be a nice link to a nice document explaining how to run a client/server and how to add bridges to it. I tried before and it seemed like WIP.

Pretty straight forward:

https://matrix.org/docs/guides/installing-synapse

Took me a couple hours as a a non-infra guy.

Re: Element Matrix Services Launches Bridging for Microsoft Teams

#38

Post by fastball »

encryptluks2 wrote: post #37

I still see absolutely no benefit in using Matrix compared to other open source options. The only thing they have going for them is they sure spend a lot of money on marketing and PR.

What are the other open source options with Matrix's feature-set?

Re: Element Matrix Services Launches Bridging for Microsoft Teams

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Post by felipelemos »

Jtsummers wrote: post #31
ashton314 wrote: post #27

Recently had to start using MS Teams at work. What a terrible UX: truncated message widths, even for code. No syntax highlighting, markdown-ish syntax only works when you type it in their little editor—when you paste it in it doesn't format, isn't smart enough to auto-start a new message when I start typing, hides bottom of message—even when there's only one line left, etc. Just a bunch of little stupid things that a…

The markdown formatting doesn't even work consistently. Some days things show up bold, some days they don't, some days I get inline code, some days I don't. It's very random and seems to be based on my typing speed at the time. That is, type ` and then wait a moment before typing the next bit and it works more reliably, but if I type like normal (around 100 wpm) it rarely registers properly.

And the backstick only works if you start by the left one.

Re: Element Matrix Services Launches Bridging for Microsoft Teams

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Post by felipelemos »

ashton314 wrote: post #27

Recently had to start using MS Teams at work. What a terrible UX: truncated message widths, even for code. No syntax highlighting, markdown-ish syntax only works when you type it in their little editor—when you paste it in it doesn't format, isn't smart enough to auto-start a new message when I start typing, hides bottom of message—even when there's only one line left, etc. Just a bunch of little stupid things that a…

And to add to the list: there is no way to reply to a message, although they have this implemented in the mobile client for ages.
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