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Re: Welcome to Teams 2.0

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Post by dzhiurgis » Tue, Mar 28, 2023, 7:34 AM UTC

jonathantf2 wrote: post #15

From the admin perspective Teams is a million times better than Slack or WebEx to set up and get going with because it's all built in, works really well. From a user perspective it sucks mainly due to the bloated nature of the app, I've used other Electron apps that feel snappy but Teams just takes forever to do anything. Hopefully this refresh on WebView2 will make it so it doesn't take multiple seconds to display t…

> Bloated

As much as I hate teams - it's not that bad regarding bloat.

Slack web app right now is using 1gb (safari), 230 mb (brave) and 150 mb (brave).

Teams web app is using 600mb (brave).

Overall UX is horrible - can't easily insert image or code snippet, there are multiple people under same name in search that you can't reach for some reason. I was impressed by some features like meeting transcription - seemed to work flawlessly.

Re: Welcome to Teams 2.0

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Post by milkytron » Wed, Mar 29, 2023, 5:51 AM UTC

sdfghswe wrote: post #13

I like how they brag about launch time _in comparison to the old teams_ (9s vs 20s), but in my eyes they're just highlighting how fucking slow teams was and still is. Teams is garbage.

It also takes mine about 10 seconds to close when I close it.

Re: Welcome to Teams 2.0

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Post by soundnote » Wed, Mar 29, 2023, 11:05 PM UTC

antifa wrote: post #27

> We have been listening to your feedback which has culminated in a reimagining of Teams from the ground up. The new app is built on a foundation of speed, performance, flexibility, and intelligence I desperately hope there is any truth to this. > game-changing new AI-powered Lines like this have me worried that none of the popular and well complained about bugs that effect me at work every day are actually going to…

It uses hundreds of MB less RAM at least.

Re: Welcome to Teams 2.0

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Post by soundnote » Wed, Mar 29, 2023, 11:10 PM UTC

JohnFen wrote: post #19

jonathantf2 wrote: post #15

From the admin perspective Teams is a million times better than Slack or WebEx to set up and get going with because it's all built in, works really well. From a user perspective it sucks mainly due to the bloated nature of the app, I've used other Electron apps that feel snappy but Teams just takes forever to do anything. Hopefully this refresh on WebView2 will make it so it doesn't take multiple seconds to display t…

> From a user perspective it sucks mainly due to the bloated nature of the app I'd be fine with the bloated nature of the app if it otherwise worked well. But it doesn't. The UI is a real mess. It's very confusing, easy to get stuff wrong, and is generally a real pain in the ass to use. Since they're trumpeting "AI integration" in this version, I'm not very hopeful that 2.0 will have fixed the real issues with Teams.

They actually fixed the channels' threaded UI so it defaults to an expanded, start a topic type posting interface and made the thread list not look like Skype anymore, so people should actually start using it correctly.

Re: Welcome to Teams 2.0

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Post by soundnote » Wed, Mar 29, 2023, 11:13 PM UTC

JohnFen wrote: post #12

Here's hoping that with 2.0, they can at least make Teams stop completely sucking.

They actually fixed the channels' threaded UI so it defaults to an expanded, start a topic type posting interface and made the thread list not look like Skype anymore, so people should actually start using it correctly.

The new app also uses hundreds of MB less RAM.