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Re: MS Teams is down

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well lotus notes would already completely crash if someone would send me the wrong animated gif on sametime. Dragging all my unfinished emails down with it too. Teams is not quite as bad in terms of stability. The UX and performance are terrible though.

> Teams is not quite as bad in terms of stability. Yet.

A way to go yet. Lotus Notes/Sametime in 2008 is still the worst software I’ve ever used.

Re: MS Teams is down

#35

Right now it's just "Operation failed with unexpected error." and emails with invitations seem to be broken (either not sent or miss some important parts).

MS is so bad with error messages these days. "Oops something went wrong" and a "funny" picture of a dropped ice cream cone. Just tell me what is actually happening.

One thing that keeps surprising me, even though it shouldn't by now, is how reluctant people are to learn from experience.

Rust's community got huge benefits out of work to improve the error messages from its compiler and tooling, but we didn't see a lot of real effort to mimic that even in other programming languages, let alone the wider tool ecosystem. A few people, here and there, put in some effort, but nothing at scale.

For Rust this work was imperative because their slogan is "A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software" not "A language with terrible error messages that only nerds can handle" so I'm not surprised other people weren't doing this before Rust showed how much difference it makes, but I was surprised they didn't learn from that.

Re: MS Teams is down

#36
post #15

Right now it's just "Operation failed with unexpected error." and emails with invitations seem to be broken (either not sent or miss some important parts).

"Operation failed with unexpected error" is a fantastic military mission codename.

I wonder if - when the staffer wrote up a proposed mission and named it "Failed with unexpected error" as the placeholder codename - that would make politicians reconsider or they'd just rename it "Triumphant Awesomeness" or whatever instad of "Failed with unexpected error" and carry on anyway.

Re: MS Teams is down

#37
OT: Firefox just asked me if login.microsoftonline.com should be allowed to use it's cookies on teams.microsoft.com. I've never seen a prompt like that before. I like it. Is it a new feature?

Re: MS Teams is down

#38
post #32

In related news – worldwide productivity is up

It’s not just flippant to say that either. One company I know “officially” uses Teams.

There’s an effectively-secret deployment of Mattermost Cloud for the “teams without whom the company cannot exist”.

Re: MS Teams is down

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post #19
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am in central europe, and it doesn't work at all, so perhaps it's just pure luck (or pure bad luck?) when it works for you.

Germany: Joining a meeting with invite URL worked for some colleagues, others could only join after the the group chat called them directly.

US East. I’m not joking when I say that’s the result about half the time even with no noted service issues.
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