It’s the worst at everything it tries to do
So much corporate misery channeled into a single app
It’s funny, we use it lightly for it’s intended purpose. I work in person on the ground and so do most people in the company. We’re spread wide geographically. I like what teams has done for us. We use it sparingly.
Teams is such a confusing app. To start off, what is it meant to be? A frontend for onedrive? A chat app? A videocall app? It’s like microsoft’s attemp to make their own everything app. What was wrong with Skype? Actually, Teams shows up as “skypeforlinux” (complete with a Skype icon) in Pavucontrol, so is the videocalling part of teams just a re-packaged skype? Why does the web version of teams have its own integrated Excel which is slightly different from standard web excel? It feels like the UI was specifically designed to mislead. There is a list of icons on the left that allow you to switch between different contexts in the app. The visual design makes it look like a set of radiobuttons, except clicking on some of them twice does a different action… There is a home screen, and then also a second SUPER HOME screen!? I can’t even get angry it at for being a slow bloated jumble of spyware like the rest of microsoft’s garbage (which it is), I just feel a sense of morbid fascination every time I’m forced to use it. It feels like an AI-generated app from a future where AI is much more capable but still utterly fails at understanding humans. It’s the uncanny valley of user experience.
One thing I miss about Lync (maybe the only thing lol) was that each chat was a separate window. …you couldn’t combine them unfortunately but I often find myself wishing I could pop a chat out of Slack, Discord, etc.
Slack allows pop out recently
TELL ME PLEASEEEE I BEG OF YOU
You can pop out chats in Teams. Been a feature for a while now…
I swear they intentionally make their app buggy as shit on Linux to punish us for not using Windows.
I mean, I’m sure you’re right but it’s buggy as shit on Windows too.
If you only use it to do video (optional) calls with a handful of people and share screens it is passable. I kind of like it for that, just a phone replacement with optional video and screen sharing.
Anything beyond that though, bleah.
It gets used as the in-house chat client at my place of employment. I work in a rural area in an old building so cell service is spotty at best, so it’s handy to be able to shoot a chat to anyone instead of an email or walking over to their office.
I’m kinda glad I lost my job at the beginning of COVID, we were preparing to move to Teams.
Teams is horrible and i love it. ive managed to do so much less work because teams wont work. People dont even question it if i say oh teams never notified me of that im so sorry! When i was really just taking a nap.
I had this years ago when I was in IT and had the on-call pager. We rotated it around the team so in had it every 6 weeks or so but it sucked hearing it go off in the middle of the night for some random server issue.
the slack notification sound is close second
“Hummus”
I have to use it, and i hate it, just like every microsoft things
I keep getting asked at work if I use teams. I tell them I never learned how to use it and I have no intention of learning. I have email when I need something documented. I have a phone when I’m away from my desk, which is most of the time. I can also discuss things face to face, because I’m not afraid of walking across site, since I’m doing that most of the day anyway.
As shitty as teams is, it’s so much better for communicating with people than emails.
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There’s one critical issue with Teams that’s about to result in it being banned for government work.
You can’t save logs.
My small city just changed domains and went to 365 Government. As part of the process we had to migrate all our accounts and create new ones, and we lost all of our Teams history because there’s no way to save the logs.
Now if someone asks for chat history as part of an Open Records Request or as discovery in a lawsuit, we can’t provide them. Other government bodies are starting to realize this and everyone’s about to start getting “don’t use Teams” memos from the lawyers.
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Except for the fact that it’s now invasive as hell and trying to monitor/sell everything on your computer after the rewrite. We had to ditch teams after the rework because it wanted to phone home to dozens of IPs with information about our computers and actions.
The high score was blocking 112 outgoing requests with personal data in a single 1 hour call. (We have network connections locked down on our computers using Little Snitch).
Absolute madness and frankly every single person involved in Microsoft Teams should be thrown in jail for espionage and stalking.
Tough competition but OneDrive frequently makes new more sad.
