Coders everywhere suddenly become more productive...
I don't think many programmers are working at this hour (23:39 here on the East Coast).
Yeah, who cares about the rest of the world...
Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users
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Re: Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users
#22It'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…
> Linux client kinda works
I had to use it when working for a certain customer. It was chrome/chromium configured for accessing Teams, packed in a single archive/executable, if memory serves. They still managed to fuck it up in a way that after a single app crash, the bundled chromium was unable to connect to Microsoft services anymore (made no outgoing connections iirc). Fresh copy worked after spinning up a live system.
I don't know how they do it but Microsoft is great at fucking simple things up.
Re: Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users
#23And nothing of value was lost.
Re: Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users
#24Official announces https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status/with_replies https://status.office.com/
> https://status.office.com/
On one hand, I am pleasantly surprised to see that this page looks like basic HTML. It reminds me of the way the Internet looked like twenty years ago, which I am nostalgic for (no cookies, no trackers, no Javascr*pt, just basic text and images). On the other hand, I expected the status page of such a ubiquitous software suite as Office to look fancier, with colorful indicators everywhere, or like this: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/e7/e1/27/e7e1270a1f7504199614ffc32...
I wish more websites and apps looked like something out of Star Trek.
Re: Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users
#25Official announces https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status/with_replies https://status.office.com/
> https://status.office.com/ On one hand, I am pleasantly surprised to see that this page looks like basic HTML. It reminds me of the way the Internet looked like twenty years ago, which I am nostalgic for (no cookies, no trackers, no Javascr*pt, just basic text and images). On the other hand, I expected the status page of such a ubiquitous software suite as Office to look fancier, with colorful indicators everywhere…
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Re: Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users
#26It'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…
> 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".
The answer is hidden in your question already. "not difficult" + "all these engineers" = overengineering.
Re: Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users
#27weirdly I had teams running fine today, but yesterday I couldn't log in at all.
Re: Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users
#28It keeps amazing me that teams and vs code are made at the same company.
I bet the difference is teams has to play ball deeply with Microsofts famously hideous login systems whereas code is a standalone product (Visual Studio is also good, everywhere except the bit where you have to log in to license it).