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Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
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Re: Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
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I personally find that the more I have to use JIRA, and the more magical ephemeral rules that are set up in it to take actions in response to my actions with it, the more terrible it is to use. I've worked on teams where I just threw info into a card, and it was acceptable to use, and I've worked on teams where commits had to have a JIRA tag associated or the commit got rejected, including in instances where bitbucke…
I'm trying to cleanup a Git tree right now where people haven't put JIRA tags in their commit comments, it is impossible to find out why a change was made, it isn't a totally stupid requirement.
Or you just write sensible commit messages. Commits together with the messages should require as little out of band information as possible.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
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upvote for the two different teams, like wtf... also, there is no version that installs in a system directory (bad for deployment), and the deployment version is terrible (it downloads and installs teams every time a user logs in). requires tracking protection to be cut for microsoft websites on linux super buggy and unusable on linux
It's usable on Linux, I use it all day, every day. I just don't know why the Linux client is so far behind the web client despite being an electron app.
> I just don't know why the Linux client is so far behind the web client despite being an electron app
My friend, this Linux user since the 1990s would like a word.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
#574Teams doesn't have to be good to succeed. It just has to exist. It's not even very important how good it is. Given it exists, IT will make everyone use it on Microsoft's behalf regardless of how bad it is. Or another way to look at it is that the real customers for Teams are IT departments. It makes their lives easier because they don't have to do anything and it meets all the compliance requirements they are suppose…
That sounds a lot like Sharepoint’s story as well.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
#575Teams doesn't have to be good to succeed. It just has to exist. It's not even very important how good it is. Given it exists, IT will make everyone use it on Microsoft's behalf regardless of how bad it is. Or another way to look at it is that the real customers for Teams are IT departments. It makes their lives easier because they don't have to do anything and it meets all the compliance requirements they are suppose…
This. Can we use anti-trust laws to break it up?
Are you really suggesting to break up a company simply based solely on your dissatisfaction with the product?
Re: Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
#576Teams doesn't have to be good to succeed. It just has to exist. It's not even very important how good it is. Given it exists, IT will make everyone use it on Microsoft's behalf regardless of how bad it is. Or another way to look at it is that the real customers for Teams are IT departments. It makes their lives easier because they don't have to do anything and it meets all the compliance requirements they are suppose…
Someone should make job board where people can filter out companies that use Teams instead of Slack or Discord.
why on earth would you use Discord in a company setting?
I would rather just go back to IRC.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
#577This provides a neat datapoint when looking for a new job. If they chose Exchange365 as their office toolset, I can immediately ignore them.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
#578I'm convinced Redmond is using Slack on macbooks internally.
We're Microsoft hardware (surface line), Microsoft OS, and Microsoft software.
You'd think things would work with that combo? Sleep is utterly broken, Excel crashes, snip works sometimes, audio levels are all over the place with teams doing its own thing separate from system, BT connections are unstable, teams is dog slow, Onenote search gives up with even smallish amounts of data saved
I'm just not buying that MS is dogfooding this
Re: Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
#579Earlier quoted context omitted.
Someone should make job board where people can filter out companies that use Teams instead of Slack or Discord.
I'd rather have Team that Slack or Discord. After my company switched to Teams, my IT department became much more productive because the amount of needless interaction with other people decreased. And we were not affected by that shit, since we share the same office anyways. Who needs a messenger when you can shout ;)
How did Teams do that that slack or discord couldn't do? 90% of the features are overlapping. And Teams performs by far the worst at that 90%.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
#580No one was ever fired for buying IBM Sun Microsoft