Welcome to Teams 2.0

> killed all online camaraderie that existed in the enterprise to save some bucks.

It's really true that Slack cultivates an online work community in a way that Teams just doesn't, and it's hard to explain to upper management who is much easier persuaded by the argument of "we're a Microsoft shop, so we'll use all the Microsoft stuff we get bundled in our 365 bundle."

The issue is that channels in Teams is so clunky and awkward compared to Slack's. It's not like a chat, it's more like a message board where you start new threads and people reply to them. They're also not easily discoverable nor easy to link people to. And maybe it's an org setting but at least at my work you can't make your own channels, so there won't be, for example, a small channel for people who like bubble tea so they can recommend restaurants or plan an outing to go get some at lunch one day.

The channels are also in a completely separate tab of the app from your chats where you spend most of your time, so people aren't aware when new conversations are happening in channels of interest to them. Unless of course you tag the channel, which gives a noisy ping to everyone in the channel, discouraging people from doing it. This is as opposed to Slack where chats and channels are all along your sidebar, so if someone is looking for help in the general dev chat or something, people in their own chats will silently see that the channel is bold, indicating there's new discussion happening there, and they might curiously click into there and see if they have anything to say.

Also while I won't argue the lack of custom emojis is some kind of productivity hindrance, they're a ton of fun and a great way to have in-jokes, either company-wide or in a small circle that help build camaraderie. At least they added most of the emojis to react a few months ago, as opposed for the 5 or so they had before.

on my system firefox loads almost instantly, certainly under .5 secs. Teams on the other hand requires a few hundred chants of "om mani padme hum" because otherwise i would probably resort to throwing my computer

Coincidentally, recently Teams started crashing when opening on my iPhone. I can't even open the bloddy thing, so even being able to open it is a step up.

They forgot the screenshots and they are still messing with the titlebar.

> From the admin perspective Teams is a million times better than Slack or WebEx to set up and get going with

"Search for Teams in company's approve SW instalation list, no hit. Asked a coleague: How do i install Teams. Answer: Just download it from the Internet, that's what IT told me. "

So i am not able to install any non aproved SW but i shall download Teams from the internet and run it ?

So long with security.