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Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

silisili wrote: post #312
daheza wrote: post #159

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Our company is forcing us to drop slack and use teams. It’s going to be terrible. But hey it saves 600k per year. Never mind that our customer experience will become terrible as team communication fails.

I worked at a company that went through this. Honestly, it changed the entire mood of the company and working there. We went from thousands of messages per day to something like 10 (of those channels I was part of, at least). People just hated it, and only used it if they really, really needed to. No more bouncing of ideas around, no more ribbing, just the desperate 'who do I talk to about accomplishing X, anyone kno…

I'm no UX expert but I'm going to claim it's because of the UX that Teams doesn't work for so many people, and I'm left wondering why Teams hasn't had a UX overhaul yet.

The other competitor to Slack is Discord, and if you remove the playful "gamer" elements I think it'd be a lot less jarring to people used to Slack, because they follow a lot of similar UX and design patterns.

At one point Discord tried to rebrand into something a bit more serious but it didn't work, but I think they should try again; create a Discord Pro or something like that, get the certifications, add SSO support, etc.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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Post by libertine »

ivan_gammel wrote: post #387
libertine wrote: post #301

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> They are targeted because there was an effort put in identifying the accomplices and finding the appropriate way to sanction them precisely. I'm not talking about sanctioning individuals, I'm talking about sanctioning Russia - visa bans, economic sanctions, seizing assets of the Russian state. That affects people, not a select group of individuals. There were additional sanctions for particular individuals, as you…

>I can't believe I'm still arguing this in 2025, but here we are, from the dictator himself Politicians often say a lot of provocative things in interviews. What matters is what they actually do and whether they do it consistently. You pick one quote from an the interview and think it is more important than all the legislative framework and all the peace proposals that were written on paper. I disagree and will not c…

> Politicians often say a lot of provocative things in interviews.

Well, it was in the national address when the second invasion kicked off in 2022. So we have the denial of the Ukrainian state and people, while launching an invasion, trying to capture the capital to topple and kill the government - how aren't these actions following the words?

What is more important are the actions - 3 years of bringing death and misery to Ukrainians, all while preaching they're either Russians or they're nothing. There was no peace proposal from Russia that was ever taken seriously by Russia itself.

These are facts.

> As I said, your number of 700k children is wrong by order of magnitude.

The number is between 25.000 and 700.000 - but what's absurd is that you're arguing about thousands of Children. Doesn't matter if it's 100, 1000 or 10.000, it's the genocidal intent behind it to transfer and filter Children from one country to another.

Russia threatened Ukrainians to accept passports or to be ejected from their homes, it's yet another instance of genocide/crimes against humanity[0]

Why were these people, children, women, and the elderly displaced across Russia and not given a safe passage back to their homeland? It's just like when Russia allied with the Nazis to help with the genocide of Poland, by removing people from their land and displacing them far away.

> Russia also hosted a number of pro-Russian Ukrainian refugees

Who are you to say if refugees that have no way to go but to the land of the aggressor are pro-Russian Ukrainians?! What kind of fcked up mentality is that?

You keep trying to wash genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity by arguing about numbers, and hypothetical political, and by trying to change the definitions of the UN - of which Russia is part of. In reality, what defines these horrific crimes is their actions and intent.

> He did not admit genocide. I did watch that televised address,

Well, you need to watch it again.

We're done here.

[0] https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2025/03/26

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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Post by mulderc »

Capricorn2481 wrote: post #366
mulderc wrote: post #350

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Not so much a laundry listening more that it feels wrong as it is clearly an electron app and doesn’t feel like a native app and chooses to have its own conventions over embracing feeling like a native app. I think that causes some of the issues you are mentioning. Now I don’t personally see any communication app like slack that is any better than it. They all sort of suck but I feel like I had a better time with IRC…

I just pin it in my browser now. I don't really get anything out of using the app version.

That is an even worse experience IMHO.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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Post by foltik »

43920 wrote: post #349
duxup wrote: post #176

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Yup. Immediately a negative impression from me. Doesn't mean it won't sell, congrats to OP, but god I hate everything about Teams. Right now it's showing me calendar items with times that are wrong, they'll switch to the right time in a few minutes... probably. I didn't change time zones, I didn't do anything, it's just something wonky about their new calendar setup. If the time updates I'll click to open the calenda…

My personal favorite UX-failure-of-the-moment in Teams: If I open the teams tab > Browse, it shows a big list of company-wide channels that I could join. There's a search box, but unlike any normal search box, it only does a prefix search, so if your channel is named "some test channel", and you search for "test", it doesn't find it! Several times I've given up at guessing the right channel name and had to ask cowork…

My favorite bug (still unsolved!) is that maximizing the window on a video call only shows the top left quarter of the video feed. I have to manually resize the window to that exact region of my screen just to see someone’s full face or screen share. Nobody can fix it, my teams install is just stuck like this. Another one: when using airpods, everyone’s voices sound super slowed down, like the audio samples are being played back at half speed. Google meet and Slack huddles work fine. Cherry on top: sometimes the entire window just vanishes mid call (no video, audio, or any UI) but I’m still broadcasting. This isn’t just bad, it’s repeated complete failures of basic functionality that happen on the regular. Frankly, it’s the most incompetently written piece of software I’ve ever had the displeasure of using.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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Post by multjoy »

Bombthecat wrote: post #384
ValentinPearce wrote: post #198

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Last week there were so many apps added to my teams that I couldn't see the chats anymore.

Teams is the old new SharePoint, and it will be the same unmanageable mess

Lotus Notes enters the chat

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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Post by bdangubic »

goosejuice wrote: post #334
bdangubic wrote: post #272

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it is like Jira, everyone loves to shit on it :)

Jira is much worse. There's not a single reason to buy Jira. I wouldn't use it if it was free.

exactly my point :)

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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Post by jd3 »

angusb wrote: post #57

Congrats, this is a great story! One small thing: > Every time I check out competitors' sites — those who also build knowledge base or customer support platforms — I notice something odd. Almost all of them use third-party tools like Intercom or Zendesk to support their own customers. That surprises me. If your product is so great — why don’t you use it yourself? For me, that’s a golden rule: your product should be s…

When working for my former employer, we rolled our own help center, but after awhile, it was deemed easier and cheaper to just cut it and transfer everything to zendesk.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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Post by GuinansEyebrows »

Aeolun wrote: post #311
osigurdson wrote: post #250

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This seems to be a very common response. I definitely believe it but Teams seems ok to me - can make video calls and do text chats. That is all I need it to do, really. Maybe I just haven't used Zoom enough to know what I am missing.

Having used better solutions for those things in the past, being forced to use Teams feels like a significant step back.

RIP HipChat; we don't know how good we had it.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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Post by zahlman »

cdelsolar wrote: post #347
zahlman wrote: post #325

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I've been here since August and I haven't seen anything that even remotely resembles > semantic arguments about why it’s ok for ICE to bust down random doors looking for brown people to deport to the death camps If you feel you have, I humbly suggest you go back and re-evaluate whatever it was that you read. Keep in mind that in order to qualify as such, the other party would have to agree with you that ICE's actions…

I’m curious as to why the other party would have to agree on this?

Because otherwise they aren't actually arguing that it's okay for ICE to do the things you say they do; they're arguing that it's okay for ICE to do the things they do, per their own perception of what those things actually are.

If the distinction doesn't make sense to you, it would be better to take a break from all political discussion on the Internet. This kind of outside view is essential to actual productive discussion.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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Post by brookst »

foltik wrote: post #394
43920 wrote: post #349

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My personal favorite UX-failure-of-the-moment in Teams: If I open the teams tab > Browse, it shows a big list of company-wide channels that I could join. There's a search box, but unlike any normal search box, it only does a prefix search, so if your channel is named "some test channel", and you search for "test", it doesn't find it! Several times I've given up at guessing the right channel name and had to ask cowork…

My favorite bug (still unsolved!) is that maximizing the window on a video call only shows the top left quarter of the video feed. I have to manually resize the window to that exact region of my screen just to see someone’s full face or screen share. Nobody can fix it, my teams install is just stuck like this. Another one: when using airpods, everyone’s voices sound super slowed down, like the audio samples are being…

Your video window issue may be related to display scaling and/or video hardware acceleration. If you care enough, try tinkering with those settings in teams, windows, and your display driver (if it has them…).
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