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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 21 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

No, no! Dogshit sometimes fertilizes and promotes growth. Microsoft teams is poison.

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[–] Tuxman@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 hours ago

I can’t believe we still can’t moderate chat in a public webinar…. « Hey the guy who wrote ‘FUCK’ 20 times? Yeah you can kick him out, but make sure to keep these messages visible for all posterity »

Can’t send private messages to outsiders also. Who could EVER need this in a public event anyway?

And make sure you can’t let people join the breakout room of their choice. Take the time to individually assign them one by one before the meeting! Fun!!

Hey at least we can play Backgammon in a meeting, so there’s that right?

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I use it daily and think it's excellent. Skype, on tnge other hand, is diabolical.

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[–] remon@ani.social 23 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I have a Jabra Headset (now retired) that literally has a MS Teams logo on the side and is market as "Teams compatible". As you might have guessed, Teams is the only VC app were I regularly have to switch betwen inputs to get the headset to work during a call.

[–] castlebravo404@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Every. Fucking. Meeting. Why can't teams just default to my system default.

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[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Genuinely the single worst messaging app I've ever used. Worse than Skype, which is crazy because Microsoft owns that too.

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

and Skype was worse than MSN Messenger. I'm still upset they killed off the better product.

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[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 20 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t care. I’ll take anything that maintains staff meetings from home. Before COVID they were 90% in person.

[–] itsJoelle@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Yup. It’s got a stupid amount of bloat for what it is used for, but it’s aggressively “okay.”

Will take it everyday of the week instead of taking meetings in person.

Yup, it does exactly what I want it to do: link scheduled meetings to my Outlook calendar (corp requirement) and let me join from a notification box. We have Slack for everything else.

It's not great, but it's certainly okay. Call quality is fine, the chat is crappy but gets the job done (supports links, files, and plain text, which is enough), and audio/camera settings are surprisingly decent. It works well for our use-case, which is scheduled meetings. Impromptu (i.e. useful) meetings happen over Slack.

[–] msgraves@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 hours ago

"aggressively okay" is the best description i've ever head of MS teams

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 14 points 9 hours ago

Microsoft spent billions acquiring Skype only for us to be left with Teams

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It's like a graveyard of companies that Microsoft has acquired over the years. Sharing files is one brand name (Sharepoint if i recall), making video calls is another name, planned events is another - every function has a brand name to it, which made me feel like these were the last remaining trace of long-absorbed companies.

But that's just my recollection, i haven't touched Teams since Covid

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[–] thisphuckinguy@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago
[–] Javi_in_4k@lemm.ee 4 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Am I the only one that prefers it to Slack?

[–] expr@programming.dev 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Teams is better for scheduled meetings, but Slack is better for literally everything else.

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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 hours ago

I chalk most of the shit that makes teams horrible, is closely related to electron and their whole web app as a desktop app bullshit.

Buckle up, because they're doing that same enshittification to outlook next. It's already begun. There's a "new" Outlook. FML.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

We user / have used Slack, Zoom, Meet/Gchat and a VERY brief trial of teams.

We have O365 AND Google Workspaces so we get teams and meet for free.

Zoom is the best to host a large meeting with a split presence. It's the best at dealing with variably poor connections. It shines on being able to share any specific app and sound control.

Meet is the best for small, low-friction meetings. However, it is hampered by its inability to share anything but browser tabs with sound, poor camera control, and poor user display.

Slack is a fantastic, too-flexible chat system with organizational issues. When it works, it works pretty well. However, it has intermittent video and mic problems on many systems. It is not good on poor connections and occasionally not good on fast connections.

Teams is bloated, many systems run it poorly, and there is an unacceptable amount of server-imposed downtime/issues.

[–] expr@programming.dev 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I've personally never had an issue with Slack, mic/video included. My connection has always been solid, though. Never tried on a shit connection.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Next you'll tell me the sky is blue.

[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

If we were on Teams right now I may not have received this snarky message.

[–] ad_on_is@lemm.ee 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you! Finally someone has the guts to say this publicly

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Eh, I thought that was already common knowledge. We use it at work because the Outlook integration works correctly 99% of the time and call quality is largely okay. I hate it as a text messenger or impromptu call tool, but we have Slack for that anyway.

[–] ad_on_is@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago

Lol... It is indeed common knowledge... I was just joking.

Using Teams as a freelancer with multiple clients who roll their own user management is a PITA.

I had to sign into multiple browsers in private mode

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 33 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Ah, they're all crap.

Came to Teams from Slack, some upsides, some downsides. It's a corporate communication tool, I don't use it because I think it's beautiful and elegant, I use it because I get paid money to use it.

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[–] dax@feddit.org 35 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

The biggest mistake was to make it a "hub" for all sorts of other uses in my opinion. It shouldn't be browser based, it should be native and just focus on chatting and calls, that's it. It could be so much faster and intuitive.

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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The only thing it does better than Slack: A list of all my chats, most recent at the top, without any disappearing or grouped in some weird way. Slack annoys me.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

I got slack for my college course, I left the group. I have no fucking idea what is going on on that app it was insanity. Seemed like 12 different groups of the same people and sometimes you got notifications sometimes you did not.

It was just a really bad UI and UX.

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