Am I the only one on Lemmy who uses Teams every day and basically has no issues? It’s not perfect, but I much prefer it over SfB, Lync, G2M, WebEx, Zoom & RingCentral.
I feel like people who hate Teams never had to suffer through Skype for Business, which truly was one of the worst pieces of software I’ve ever used in my life. It used the layout engine from WORD to render chat windows. It had an unsynchronized mobile client that 9/10 never received messages unless it was open while the person sent it. It was hell.
Most of Teams’ problems stem from it being an Electron app that aggressively caches everything, which new Teams actually solves so I’m pretty happy with it. I also have to support users of it for our org too, so I don’t just use it constantly I also have to fix it if it breaks, so it’s not just lack of awareness of common issues.
It is lack of awareness, the users don't report most problems to you. If they did, you wouldn't have time to do anything but read the problems. I don't report to IT every bug that annoys me in teams, because they can't do shit about it and it would take hours for me to list them
Yeah that would make sense if I also didn’t have to use it all day every day.
Also just because you don’t report issues, doesn’t mean others don’t. I never said it was perfect, far from it. But it’s as good or better than many alternatives.
Sometimes it messes up my status and says I'm idle when I'm working on a second screen and also sometimes doesn't notify me about messages but I still think it's alright
Yeah, I've found it funky but usable. Unfortunately they resolved a bug where you always show online if you're on a laptop in balanced power mode and it's plugged in lol. That was a great feature
Teams is an abomination beyond desolation. I was really enjoying the Slack experience with my team and collaboration with other teams in the company, before we were made to switch to Teams. On Slack, everything was quickly searchable and more importantly, findable. When I scrolled up I didn't have to wait on shit to slowly load. We had full sets of custom emojis and voting systems that made standups and communication a breeze and saved so much typing/emails - on Teams basically the only one anyone uses is the thumbs up and you never know if they mean it or are being sarcastic, and the polls/forms plugins are more hassle than they're worth. You could pin more than one message at a time and bots were super helpful and easy to use for things like CI/CD integration, pages when something failed, etc. We tried to replicate that in Teams with Microsoft's connectors, but they're so uncustomizable on a non-admin level that they throttle and we almost never get the notifications when we actually need them.
It's fine for features. The UI design reminds me of phone apps; you have to guess what the symbol means rather than using actual text, but for the most part it does it's job of facilitating office communications. Files are a bitch, but i don't have to use those in teams too often.
My hate stems from its godawful search, and the fact that it struggles to load goddamn text. I swear to god i can count the seconds for each scroll upwards and i hate it.
Why does Teams break my wireless headset (which I'm required to use for my job) half the time and half the time it's fine? That's one of my biggest gripes with it tbh. Our IT department couldn't figure it out. I'll open teams and suddenly my headset stops working and it fixes itself when I close Teams. The browser client version of the app doesn't seem to do this though thankfully.