If I ever work at a company that uses Teams again, I will quit that company. How much I hate Teams can in no way be overstated. For a chat program it shouldn't cause so much anger, but its so bad at everything it does.
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#12Google chat, and while it’s ok for 1-1, group chat is a disaster
Even for 1-1, I get too many of those those “Hi Joe” pings without any content.
I have a permanent status “nohello.com” but the UI is such trash, no one even knows it’s there
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#13If I ever work at a company that uses Teams again, I will quit that company. How much I hate Teams can in no way be overstated. For a chat program it shouldn't cause so much anger, but its so bad at everything it does.
Not sure how it works on Mac but on Linux it's a dreadful experience and I don't think any work tool had ever annoyed me more
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#14Slack has become Not Great over the years, but it's still somehow the best of all the major options
How hard is it to not mess up chat
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#15Slack has become Not Great over the years, but it's still somehow the best of all the major options How hard is it to not mess up chat
It's trivially easy to not mess up chat.
Not messing up chat while middle managers continuing promising quarterly growth, that's another story...
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#16Microsoft Teams, but that's more of a chat problem than a chat solution.
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#17The small agency I work with has used keybase in the past but it’s been degrading ever since zoom bought it. It was such a good platform on the way up.
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#18The problem with Teams is it has a ton of badly implemented functionality destroying what it does well on a straightforward basis - simple chat. For that use case, it is as good as anything else out there and I don’t know why people complain.
If you start using things like actual “Teams” it starts getting troublesome. We use it like a Facebook wall. Individual vertical heads will post information or call to action from time to time but it is largely static while we chat with each other all day outside it.
This is bad but what pisses off tech illiterate people even more is they have an entire share point built for the fucking software. Most tech illiterate people cannot understand how to use it and keep switching between that and chat and losing their work. If you need to use a file heavily while chatting, you need to open it on the desktop version or the entire experience will suck donkey nuts. If you need to constantly use that particular share point file system for daily tasks, then you’re an idiot if you can’t figure out or ask IT for the easier solution of just syncing it to your file explorer and never touching the Teams app.
The app sucks major balls but a lot of it is because it caters to a non tech savvy crowd and they’re constantly trying to walk a fine line between being functional graphically and also allowing power users to just get super access and get on with their day.
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#19Slack has become Not Great over the years, but it's still somehow the best of all the major options How hard is it to not mess up chat
It's actually better than it was 5 years ago. I worked at a company 2017-18 that used slack, changed jobs to a company that didn't use slack 2018-21 and now work at another company that uses Slack. I find that the product is much better today at basic things (performance, search etc) than it was in 2017.
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#20The small agency I work with has used keybase in the past but it’s been degrading ever since zoom bought it. It was such a good platform on the way up.
I too miss what KeyBase could have been :(