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Re: Poll: Which Chat Solution Does Your Company Use

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Post by hnews_account_1 » Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 11:56 AM UTC

vladvasiliu wrote: post #33

hnews_account_1 wrote: post #18

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…

> For [the chat] use case, it is as good as anything else out there and I don’t know why people complain. 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 wher…

I am running this on a fairly powerful machine, yes. I forgot to mention that part. It’s a laptop with i7 10th gen and 32 GB of RAM. And you’re absolutely right in how much Teams hogs memory because my org basically expanded their IT budget by many multiples during the pandemic and upgraded folks from 8 to 16 GB laptops / desktops before they realized that Teams and another software we generally run all day cannot manage with 16 gigs.

Maybe all these troubles go away with more memory but just to be clear, I face almost none of the issues you’re talking about except for the truly crappy search which has only marginally improved this year but is still very, very bad.

Re: Poll: Which Chat Solution Does Your Company Use

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Post by vladvasiliu » Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 12:06 PM UTC

hnews_account_1 wrote: post #51

vladvasiliu wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> For [the chat] use case, it is as good as anything else out there and I don’t know why people complain. 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 wher…

I am running this on a fairly powerful machine, yes. I forgot to mention that part. It’s a laptop with i7 10th gen and 32 GB of RAM. And you’re absolutely right in how much Teams hogs memory because my org basically expanded their IT budget by many multiples during the pandemic and upgraded folks from 8 to 16 GB laptops / desktops before they realized that Teams and another software we generally run all day cannot ma…

In my case, it's either a Zen3 laptop with 32 GB or an older Xeon desktop with 64 GB.

In both cases, it's larger than most regular office workers usually have, so I don't think Teams should expect this kind of machine.

Re: Poll: Which Chat Solution Does Your Company Use

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Post by hnews_account_1 » Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 5:24 PM UTC

vladvasiliu wrote: post #52

hnews_account_1 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am running this on a fairly powerful machine, yes. I forgot to mention that part. It’s a laptop with i7 10th gen and 32 GB of RAM. And you’re absolutely right in how much Teams hogs memory because my org basically expanded their IT budget by many multiples during the pandemic and upgraded folks from 8 to 16 GB laptops / desktops before they realized that Teams and another software we generally run all day cannot ma…

In my case, it's either a Zen3 laptop with 32 GB or an older Xeon desktop with 64 GB. In both cases, it's larger than most regular office workers usually have, so I don't think Teams should expect this kind of machine.

I agree on that front. I’m also a power user of most software so I keep a mental note of nifty tricks that normal people cannot be expected to maintain. Even the IT folks didn’t know Teams had inbuilt functionality to mount individual sharepoints separately in file explorer (which just plugs into OneDrive for sync functionality) and they were trying to connect to it using some crazy network tricks until one of them saw how I mounted it and told me to show him how to do it.

This is far and above what a normal user is expected to have discovered, but I just needed to point out that complaining on it on this forum is a bit hypocritical considering the vast majority of us are certainly top 0.1% on the tech literacy spectrum and most likely have access to very powerful systems that the typical user does not.

Re: Poll: Which Chat Solution Does Your Company Use

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Post by luckman212 » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 2:17 AM UTC

vladvasiliu wrote: post #32

pawelduda wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Oh man, I actually prefer the Linux version to the Windows one. The interface is a bit more usable, in that all the controls are grouped in the same place. On Windows, the bar is split along the top and right sides of the screen, and you can't set the incoming video to take the whole screen. Even "focus on content" still leaves a bunch of stuff hanging around. The only thing I prefer on Windows is that it uses native…

Current versions of Teams have the option to use native notifications (on macOS) and have had this feature for some time now. FYI.

Re: Poll: Which Chat Solution Does Your Company Use

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Post by guptaneil » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 4:57 AM UTC

asdfqwertzxcv wrote: post #29

guptaneil wrote: post #21

We use Guilded at Guilded. Corporate use is not our intended use case and I wouldn’t recommend Guilded for enterprise concerns, but as a startup, I can’t imagine not having this tool. All of our chat, docs, calendars, tasks, meetings, etc are in one place and easily cross-referenceable. More importantly, we have groups which are like mini-servers inside your server. Your whole company can be in one server, while each…

Hard to tell since the site doesn't offer much info and pushes users to download right away, but are the calendar and docs self contained in the app or do they interface with outside services and pull data in?

They are self-contained