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Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays

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Re: Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays

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Post by wharvle »

stagger87 wrote: post #11
a_vanderbilt wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No one noticing it is down because it usually isn't working anyways.

It's always interesting to hear others experiences. I've used Teams for 4+ years now with zero issues until this morning. I'm only mad in that I tried troubleshooting my PC and network connection for far too long before seeing this thread.

I haven’t really had problems with it not working. Not more than other chat programs.

My main gripe is the “teams” chats having aggressively terrible UI in ways that make my work-life worse. Most of my complaints would go away if they let me make a teams chat that was a normal chat room.

Re: Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays

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Post by jurynulifcation »

FridgeSeal wrote: post #43
robertlagrant wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People seem much harsher on Slack, for some reason. Sometimes being the better product just means people notice when it's broken.

Is there a term for how people just kind of acclimatise to a broken, buggy tool, and don’t realise when it’s extra broken? A sort of software Stockholm syndrome?

Microsoft Syndrome

Re: Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays

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Post by manmal »

technick wrote: post #50

I got my first taste of teams about a month ago. I had to install it on my personal laptop for a job interview. After installation, my laptop started displaying notifications encouraging me to renew my monthly subscriptions to Microsoft Office and Xbox Game Pass, things I haven't had a subscription for in over a year. It automatically set itself to start up with the computer which isn't unexpected. However I disabled…

> I don't know why people waste their time using teams

Because its use is mandated by workplaces, schools, and lots of other entities & communities. I rather hate Teams, but suddenly I’m finding myself spending half my days with it.

Re: Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays

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Post by easton »

manmal wrote: post #53
technick wrote: post #50

I got my first taste of teams about a month ago. I had to install it on my personal laptop for a job interview. After installation, my laptop started displaying notifications encouraging me to renew my monthly subscriptions to Microsoft Office and Xbox Game Pass, things I haven't had a subscription for in over a year. It automatically set itself to start up with the computer which isn't unexpected. However I disabled…

> I don't know why people waste their time using teams Because its use is mandated by workplaces, schools, and lots of other entities & communities. I rather hate Teams, but suddenly I’m finding myself spending half my days with it.

And those places use it because it’s free. You’re already paying for Exchange or Office, so Teams comes free. Nobody believes it’s the best product, but it’s 70% as good as Slack for free.

Re: Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays

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Post by juujian »

robertlagrant wrote: post #32
nerdjon wrote: post #7

What I find most interesting about this is how long it took to see reporting on this issue, unlike what I remember the reporting on Slack being down 5 or 6 years ago that I could fairly reliably find somewhere that said it was down. Has how we used these tools just changed? They are so janky in the first place that them being "down" is questionably different? Just seems weird.

People seem much harsher on Slack, for some reason. Sometimes being the better product just means people notice when it's broken.

When I see the Microsoft logo, I always lower my expectations accordingly.

Re: Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays

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Post by 120bits »

technick wrote: post #50

I got my first taste of teams about a month ago. I had to install it on my personal laptop for a job interview. After installation, my laptop started displaying notifications encouraging me to renew my monthly subscriptions to Microsoft Office and Xbox Game Pass, things I haven't had a subscription for in over a year. It automatically set itself to start up with the computer which isn't unexpected. However I disabled…

I switched companies and I had to use teams. From my experience coming Slack, teams feels heavy app. The bootup is slow and overall it felt like its bloated app. I'm using M1Pro Mac.

What I don't like the most of the teams app is, the freaking code editor. If I paste code in teams, it feels hard to read, in Slack it looks much better. Also, I hate it when on teams having some serious chat about prod issue and some in the group post a random message and whole thing just goes side ways. Lack of threads is bad experience for me. I can go on..

Re: Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays

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Post by thecosas »

robertlagrant wrote: post #32
nerdjon wrote: post #7

What I find most interesting about this is how long it took to see reporting on this issue, unlike what I remember the reporting on Slack being down 5 or 6 years ago that I could fairly reliably find somewhere that said it was down. Has how we used these tools just changed? They are so janky in the first place that them being "down" is questionably different? Just seems weird.

People seem much harsher on Slack, for some reason. Sometimes being the better product just means people notice when it's broken.

I think (in general) Slack has been more open to automations and integrations, so entire workflows rest on it.

Teams is catching up in this respect, but fewer people rely on it beyond day-to-day communication. Not that it's not important, but maybe just not as critical to things beyond person-to-person comms.

Re: Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays

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Post by rubicks »

nerdjon wrote: post #7

What I find most interesting about this is how long it took to see reporting on this issue, unlike what I remember the reporting on Slack being down 5 or 6 years ago that I could fairly reliably find somewhere that said it was down. Has how we used these tools just changed? They are so janky in the first place that them being "down" is questionably different? Just seems weird.

My employer uses Teams and it is an extremely reliable productivity killer.

Re: Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays

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Post by [deleted] »

bboygravity wrote: post #46
Vigorosotuna96 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spot on analysis. It's a broken product, most of the time, for me.

And yet companies don't mind the extremely obvious loss of productivity this causes. They also don't mind that it makes them look unprofessional. At all. I've seen townhall meetings where 200+ FTE where sitting around waiting for Teams to stop glitching for like 10 minutes. And after they go back to their desk for real work, the glitching continues. "innovation"

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Re: Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays

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Post by bastardoperator »

robertlagrant wrote: post #32
nerdjon wrote: post #7

What I find most interesting about this is how long it took to see reporting on this issue, unlike what I remember the reporting on Slack being down 5 or 6 years ago that I could fairly reliably find somewhere that said it was down. Has how we used these tools just changed? They are so janky in the first place that them being "down" is questionably different? Just seems weird.

People seem much harsher on Slack, for some reason. Sometimes being the better product just means people notice when it's broken.

Teams is typically a free product with an MSFT EA.
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