Somehow, we’ve entered a universe where every single chat client sucks flabby, unwashed ass. I can’t think of a single one that works as well as AIM and pidgin did back in 2001, and that’s absolutely pathetic.
God how I miss interoperability. I went to college right as all the disparate chat systems started coalescing into everyone just using Facebook, and it was super useful being able to chat across all the platforms (including FB) from one program
I find teams won’t mark messages as read. Like I’ll be focused on the chat and it’ll stay unread. I have to click out and back into it.
When there’s one of those horrible “teams” things with threads, clicking on a new message on the sidebar shows me just that message. No context. I have to click on the channel and find it.
The core problem is they have “chats” and then some other horrible thing that looks like channels but sucks. Maybe they wanted that to be like a message board? I hate it.
Most of my work uses “chats” instead, but that’s horrible. No discoverability. A thousand permutations of people in chats. One for every meeting. (Was that important message in the standup chat? The planning chat? The side chat with the three competent guys?). And no threads.
I had to do online lessons during pandemic using Teams. And I forgot to document attendance of the students, and searching through chat was tedious. That’s when I figured that Teams API is also shit af, that instead of attendees returns list of people who were invited to call.
That sucked so hard. Taught highschool age kids. We ended up doing attendance manually. As in: join the day’s meeting, turn on your camera and show me that you’re out of bed, clothed, and ready to learn.
Doesn’t matter, we need to get rid of all these platforms. Pinging large groups of people shouldn’t be this easy. Maybe get rid of internal email as well.
Want to contact somebody? write a note and have it delivered. I’d bet it’d be more efficient, when you need to limit your messages.
Just imagine how much calmer your day would be, if you wouldn’t have to deal with “who ate my lunch?” or “there’s a car with the headlights on at a carpark on the other side of campus” with the same urgency as actual directed communication.
I have my mic right beside my mechanical keyboard. Nobody hears a thing if I type during a meeting in Zoom and Slack. In Teams, if I type as light and quietly as possible, people complain immediately. That is my experience with Teams.
I do sometimes, but generally I can mute myself and be fine. It’s a mild annoyance. But the main point is that Teams appears to make no attempt at noise cancellation. What if there was loud vehicles or sirens? Barking dog? Kids screaming, people talking in public? I guess everyone just hears everything in Teams. Seems like a really basic feature that’s missing.
Unpopular opinion: slack is worse than teams.
Somehow, we’ve entered a universe where every single chat client sucks flabby, unwashed ass. I can’t think of a single one that works as well as AIM and pidgin did back in 2001, and that’s absolutely pathetic.
God how I miss interoperability. I went to college right as all the disparate chat systems started coalescing into everyone just using Facebook, and it was super useful being able to chat across all the platforms (including FB) from one program
Ew. That is certainly unpopular. Teams can’t even do read/unread notifications
I never kissed a message with Teams. I never get alerts with Slack. I find out 20 minutes later when I notice that the unread category is in bold.
I find teams won’t mark messages as read. Like I’ll be focused on the chat and it’ll stay unread. I have to click out and back into it.
When there’s one of those horrible “teams” things with threads, clicking on a new message on the sidebar shows me just that message. No context. I have to click on the channel and find it.
The core problem is they have “chats” and then some other horrible thing that looks like channels but sucks. Maybe they wanted that to be like a message board? I hate it.
Most of my work uses “chats” instead, but that’s horrible. No discoverability. A thousand permutations of people in chats. One for every meeting. (Was that important message in the standup chat? The planning chat? The side chat with the three competent guys?). And no threads.
Just give me channels with threads.
I had to do online lessons during pandemic using Teams. And I forgot to document attendance of the students, and searching through chat was tedious. That’s when I figured that Teams API is also shit af, that instead of attendees returns list of people who were invited to call.
That sucked so hard. Taught highschool age kids. We ended up doing attendance manually. As in: join the day’s meeting, turn on your camera and show me that you’re out of bed, clothed, and ready to learn.
I think there’s no reliable way to discover all people that participated in a Teams meeting.
Looking manually, it will leave people out too.
Doesn’t matter, we need to get rid of all these platforms. Pinging large groups of people shouldn’t be this easy. Maybe get rid of internal email as well.
Want to contact somebody? write a note and have it delivered. I’d bet it’d be more efficient, when you need to limit your messages.
Just imagine how much calmer your day would be, if you wouldn’t have to deal with “who ate my lunch?” or “there’s a car with the headlights on at a carpark on the other side of campus” with the same urgency as actual directed communication.
I have my mic right beside my mechanical keyboard. Nobody hears a thing if I type during a meeting in Zoom and Slack. In Teams, if I type as light and quietly as possible, people complain immediately. That is my experience with Teams.
You do know you can mute your mic, right? Unless you type and talk simultaneously
I do sometimes, but generally I can mute myself and be fine. It’s a mild annoyance. But the main point is that Teams appears to make no attempt at noise cancellation. What if there was loud vehicles or sirens? Barking dog? Kids screaming, people talking in public? I guess everyone just hears everything in Teams. Seems like a really basic feature that’s missing.
I was in an online meeting years ago when a formation of F-16s flew over my house at 500 feet. Ain’t no cancelling that noise. That was a good day.