It is fine if it crashes, almost better even, otherwise I have to deal with trying to format my messages
Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
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Re: Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
#162Pop is good: https://pop.com
The IntelliJ Code With Me feature is worth trying: https://www.jetbrains.com/code-with-me/
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#163My company is transitioning to Teams and I find it frustrating. So much so that I collect my complaints in a confluence page. I could be wrong on some of these, so happy to be corrected! No links You can’t link to conversations. This means if you want to add context to a Jira ticket or in a code comment, you can’t easily do so. Inconsistent UI The UI between a Teams channel and a chat with multiple people is not cons…
Those are just missing features, though! My favorite Teams bug is when the arrow keys stop working for text navigation. They had to go out of the way to break something like that.
There’s also a bug where it will suddenly reverse text direction from left right to right left. It’s very strange.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
#164Like Dick Jones says in the Robocop movie about the failed ED209: “I had a guaranteed military sale with ED209! Renovation program! Spare parts for 25 years! Who cares if it worked or not!”
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#165This is all I should need to say: "full screen".
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#166Long ago Microsoft had MSN Messenger, which was one of the leading messaging apps. It worked well, and many 'normal' users were using it. Then Microsoft dissolved the team behind it and screwed up the product so bad with bloatware and ads that everyone moved to WhatsApp (except in the US where people went back to texting). Then Microsoft came out with Communicator, renamed it to Lync, which was a corporate messenger/…
It's kind of crazy to look back and see just how much worse we are today than some years ago with regards to this stuff. I remember an old social media named Orkut, had pretty much everything facebook had and more, also had a huge userbase in brazil and india(?) iirc, but just goot overtaken by facebook. Original skype would probably work better than zoom does today with a few tweaks(I assume, could be wrong there wh…
It's interesting to understand why facebook got so much wind.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
#167Sample size of "me", but I couldn't even tell you the last time Teams crashed for me. I frequently change cameras and microphones in the middle of a call (I change the microphone because I have a USB microphone that is shared to multiple PC's with a USB switcher which means it is essentially being unplugged and plugged. This causes Teams to switch to a different microphone.)
Re: Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
#168It’s good enough.
...for the business strategy: 1. Neutralize the threat from Slack (AKA Salesforce) 2. Give Enterprise sales teams a checklist item 3. Don't spend a dime more than necessary on software development 4. Integrate with the rest of the MS enterprise product line On top of those goals, the internal sponsors of Teams have to survive the savage internal politics at Microsoft, so the product is designed to threaten no importa…
Remember that Microsoft has had a UC/chat app forever. Teams in comparison to Skype for Business is an improvement.
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#169msft is going away from electron and will now use react native
Re: Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
#170I think you have not used Webex, Bluejeans and others.