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gotbeans | 5 months ago

You didn't really say much of what does it do wrong or right, you seem to just try to convey a for-granted idea.

I've been an msft employee for a couple of years and teams... Was ok. I prefer slack, but meetings, video, messaging, formatting, etc. was just fine in teams.

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pohuing|5 months ago

There's a bunch of annoyances in teams. The text editor is awful if you try to paste/send code for one. The screen sharing is shit by default and only lets one person share at a time for no good reason. It's fairly slow. And it doesn't have a global fucking hot key for push to talk/muting. Despite being integrated with the damn task bar(which is broken if you're on hold in one call and active in another, then it's too stupid to figure out that the mute button is intended to mute my active call, not the one that's on hold...). Also the teams feature gets out of your way, which is an issue if you're trying to use it like you would channels in discord or slack. Would be nice to at least have a notification pip there.

wkat4242|5 months ago

> And it doesn't have a global fucking hot key for push to talk/muting.

It's control-space. It is global on Windows as far as I know. Unfortunately you can't change it because I would love to have a single key I don't normally use assigned to it. I use a Mac keyboard with 19 function keys so there's plenty that I would never touch.

I agree with all the other criticism by the way, it's a messy slow clusterf*k.

apple4ever|5 months ago

Messaging is not fine. There are 15 million group DMs and zero way to organize them outside of a giant list and a favorites. That's where Slack shines.

const_cast|5 months ago

The text editor is hilariously broken. Copy/paste eats formatting for breakfast... Unless it's Word, but only sometimes. But who the fuck is pasting a WORD document into teams?? Don't do that!

Seriously, it's outlook levels of broken. Markdown doesn't work, I don't know what markdown engine they use but it's certainly not compliant to any sort of standard. Copying whitespace is just unbelievably fucked, your code becomes unreadable.

Which would be fine... If we could bulk indent. But do you know what highlight + tab does? Not indent, no, it selects the send button.

Teams, fuck you.

spogbiper|5 months ago

i agree. teams is "ok", for my purposes at least. don't really understand the hate it gets in certain forums