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The problem is that it's also the chat system a lot of my friends and hobbies use, so it really messes with my work/life balance. If I do ever use Discord for work again, I'm going to have to make a separate account.
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.
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
The only thing I prefer on Windows is that it uses native notifications. Other than that, it's the same laggy, broken piece of crap on all platforms.
When I was still using a Mac, teams there seemed similar to Linux.
The 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 fr…
What kind of computer are you running this on? In my case, I have a Zen 3 laptop and Teams can't keep up with my typing. It's the only app where this happens. And I only type with basically 2.5 fingers per hand, I'm not some kind of typing Olympics title-holder.
It also somehow manages to be the only program where I often type my letters out of order.
If god forbid I want to scroll back up in the chat to see what was said a few days ago, it's an absolutely horrible experience. The chat jumps all over the place, loading messages is laggy, and occasionally, it downright doesn't work (the bubbles stay blank). I need to go to a different chat, come back, and try to go back up the history again.
Don't even get me started on search, which, if it works, won't give you any context.
I think the reason people complain is that we're in 2022, running ridiculously powerful computers, and this crap still manages to be an all-round inferior experience than MS's own MSN messenger 20 years ago.
Yeah, I know it's "more than a chat app", but as you put it, it does it terribly.
So if the chat part sucks, the "more than chat part" sucks, what's left to not complain about?
We use Google because a VP has a hardon for Google. It’s not good. Threading is garbage, there are limited text formatting options, and some of them don’t work right all the time (code blocks don’t work if you’re copy/pasting text that has a format applied, like bold or colored text, for instance). I like the Google video calls for the simple interface, but I dislike that the chat doesn’t save.
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.
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
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.
Right now, the only approved chat solution is Skype for Business (with only plaintext messaging - rich text, files and images have been disabled for security reasons).
Other chat and social media sites are blocked at a firewall level (including Slack, Discord, Facebook, etc.).
I’ve heard bad things about Teams, but it’s surely better than the current solution we use with its lack of persistence and plain text limitation.
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.
I’m eagerly anticipating our company moving to Teams. Right now, the only approved chat solution is Skype for Business (with only plaintext messaging - rich text, files and images have been disabled for security reasons). Other chat and social media sites are blocked at a firewall level (including Slack, Discord, Facebook, etc.). I’ve heard bad things about Teams, but it’s surely better than the current solution we u…
Zulip has a brilliant threading model (ability to move messages between threads after the fact) but the UI is not something you could recommend to a non-technical user.. yet. I really hope they improve it.
> the UI is not something you could recommend to a non-technical user.. +1 This is Zulip biggest downfall. I’ve participated over the past 2 years in chat.zulip.org activately advocating for better UI design, even multiple times mocking up what an improved UI would look like and there’s so much stubborness to change it frustrating. I’ve come to the conclusion that nothing more than small tweaks will every change rega…
https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues?q=label%3Aredesign+sor...
https://chat.zulip.org/#narrow/stream/101-design
At the second link, you can click on `more topics` under #design and filter for `ui redesign` to see some of the topics about that.
No IRC?! At my last production plant, we used internal IRC server for the factory floor (export controlled) to cut/paste between test stations, cant use most cloud chat for export controlled data. Also another internal IRC for the NOC and systems admins, mostly since its been up for a decade+. But mostly teams.