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What is the secret sauce for such a horrible company to stay incredibly profitable so long?
Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users
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Re: Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users
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> Slack said controlling screens was too difficult ....wait, what?? Teams, Webex, Zoom... Every other teleconference app can do it, so isn't this like admitting they're either not smart or lazy? I would be totally fine with them removing video altogether and just keeping Huddles, but doing video without the remote control (and their video calls take an eternity to load, wtf?) is real weird
I have never seen controlling desktop on teams ever work. It’s alway 10 minutes of messing around followed by the person giving up.
Wait, you're right, I remember now, it didn't work for me either. I had to send the user commands to type in a console. "....No no, that's actually one run-on line, not two lines."
Re: Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users
#73It's hard to understand why Teams is so bad. They have all these engineers, and it's not like it's difficult to make a chat program. Teleconferencing, sure, that's difficult. But most of the problems I hear about is "Teams crashed" or "Wouldn't connect" or "Makes my machine run unbearably slow". How do you end up with such a crap app? And why is the interface so terrible? Can't they afford UX people? And why are ther…
Counterpoint... I don't get all the hate for Teams. I work fully-remote on a medium sized team. We use Teams for one-one calls, team calls, presentations, screen-sharing, calls to external numbers and I've never had any problems. I run it on a Windows desktop and an Android phone. I've never had performance problems or crashes on either. Some of the file-sharing/explorer stuff is a bit janky in terms of UI but I don'…
I regularly lose the ability to unmute or turn off my camera during Teams calls. In that case I have to hang up and rejoin to speak. It also regularly doesn't deliver notifications. At this point I just can't rely on it's primary functions.
Re: Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users
#74"Thousands of users" is a under estimation by a factor of thousands.
Re: Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users
#75It's hard to understand why Teams is so bad. They have all these engineers, and it's not like it's difficult to make a chat program. Teleconferencing, sure, that's difficult. But most of the problems I hear about is "Teams crashed" or "Wouldn't connect" or "Makes my machine run unbearably slow". How do you end up with such a crap app? And why is the interface so terrible? Can't they afford UX people? And why are ther…
I’ve read an estimate that teams pulls in five to seven billion yearly revenue. And they still can’t fix it
Re: Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users
#76It's hard to understand why Teams is so bad. They have all these engineers, and it's not like it's difficult to make a chat program. Teleconferencing, sure, that's difficult. But most of the problems I hear about is "Teams crashed" or "Wouldn't connect" or "Makes my machine run unbearably slow". How do you end up with such a crap app? And why is the interface so terrible? Can't they afford UX people? And why are ther…
It's truly horrible software, it somehow manages to make even simple tasks like using my Bluetooth headphones in a call difficult (the Android app won't see them unless I disable and then re enable bt after I connect to the call) Once during a company meeting the mute function stopped working so a few dozen people could hear me making an emergency call to the doctor. That was fun. Support never gave me an explanation…
Dear god that's horrible. If the people on calls knew what I was saying while muted...
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#77While we're here. Does anyone else notice that on a mac it doesn't support the completely basic concept of a red notification dot in the application bar? People literally wait hours when they msg me because - I don't get notified when the app is just sitting there running.
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Re: Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users
#79It's hard to understand why Teams is so bad. They have all these engineers, and it's not like it's difficult to make a chat program. Teleconferencing, sure, that's difficult. But most of the problems I hear about is "Teams crashed" or "Wouldn't connect" or "Makes my machine run unbearably slow". How do you end up with such a crap app? And why is the interface so terrible? Can't they afford UX people? And why are ther…
> How do you end up with such a crap app? Developers valuing their own experience over literally everything else, combined with them not understanding what they're doing and using way too many abstraction layers.
The other day I read a comment here on HN that said "prefer developer experience over performance of the app".
So yes, we are in it for bad.
Re: Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Slack said controlling screens was too difficult ....wait, what?? Teams, Webex, Zoom... Every other teleconference app can do it, so isn't this like admitting they're either not smart or lazy? I would be totally fine with them removing video altogether and just keeping Huddles, but doing video without the remote control (and their video calls take an eternity to load, wtf?) is real weird
I have never seen controlling desktop on teams ever work. It’s alway 10 minutes of messing around followed by the person giving up.
Never seen it not work