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.
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.