I’ve never understood the hatred for Teams. I don’t particularly like Slack, and Teams (from my limited experience using it) doesn’t seem that much worse.
On a 4k monitor you can still only get about 80 characters of monospaced font per line, because of the “negative space” fetish UX designers have.
Something dead simple like posting a stack trace, and then having someone able to, you know, read it… It’s just not something teams really does well.
I can understand how the tooling probably does a ton of stuff that corporate users want (integrating with calendars, tons of access controls for spaces for important people to talk, etc) but for a dev working primarily with a handful of other devs and qas, there is a feature set mismatch. I can’t begin to tell you how badly I don’t give a shit about 99% of its features.
How long has it been since you used Teams? I’m no apologist, I have plenty of gripes with that piece of crap software, but this seems like a crazy stretch. Teams makes it almost trivial to embed code blocks with syntax highlighting for a wide array of languages, which can be easily copied out of Teams or opened in a separate viewer for easier reading.
Maybe we’re using an old version or something, but code blocks still don’t expand horizontally to fill the available space, so we just get a horizontal slider bar.
or opened in a separate viewer for easier reading.
Yes, that’s my beef. If I need to juggle content to external text editors to read them, then IMO it has failed the categorical imperative of the tool.
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Back to work Monday morning:
Collapse all side bars, you get 89 monospaced characters. Approximately 2/3 of the horizontal screen space is reserved for empty space.
Literally every week I encounter new bugs, it gets worse and worse. Many very basic features (like inline code with back ticks) just stopped working months ago and don’t work anymore. Scrolling in some channels is completely broken, jumping around wildly. Sometimes messages just don’t get sent (both on Android & Web). Sometimes calls work perfectly all day, then the next call just randomly changes audio device settings and I have to find what’s wrong again. Sometimes the video stream of a shared screen just doesn’t work, or stops working when switching to the small pop-up window while looking at chats, so the other person has to re-share. Sometimes the “available” state is just broken and keeps getting set to “away”. The search just doesn’t find many things, even when searching with fairly exact parameters.
It’s a daily source of frustration & literally gets worse by the week. I can’t remember a program that’s made me angry as much as Teams has.
Teams is trash, I have to use it with certain clients, slack for everything else. Literally everything it does is like a wish.com fail version of slack. Like if you ordered slack on temu.
They are now finally putting some work in to improve it. I don’t remember much what I used to hate particularly, it was mostly UI related, bugs or the bad Mac implementation.
The new combined view with chats and teams is much better than the split sections.
It took them until just recently to have a basic code block format like everyone else, instead of this annoying editor-in-editor mess they had before (and still kept for some reason).
It used to be very buggy like you had to hunt down the source of some notification to mark it as read. It still doesn’t 100% sync with Outlook. If an event is cancelled and I click delete in Outlook, I also have to go to Teams and „read“ this update. You can set group events in Teams but they somehow don’t end up in Outlook.
What I really like are the clay-like emojis designs.
I’ve never understood the hatred for Teams. I don’t particularly like Slack, and Teams (from my limited experience using it) doesn’t seem that much worse.
On a 4k monitor you can still only get about 80 characters of monospaced font per line, because of the “negative space” fetish UX designers have.
Something dead simple like posting a stack trace, and then having someone able to, you know, read it… It’s just not something teams really does well.
I can understand how the tooling probably does a ton of stuff that corporate users want (integrating with calendars, tons of access controls for spaces for important people to talk, etc) but for a dev working primarily with a handful of other devs and qas, there is a feature set mismatch. I can’t begin to tell you how badly I don’t give a shit about 99% of its features.
How long has it been since you used Teams? I’m no apologist, I have plenty of gripes with that piece of crap software, but this seems like a crazy stretch. Teams makes it almost trivial to embed code blocks with syntax highlighting for a wide array of languages, which can be easily copied out of Teams or opened in a separate viewer for easier reading.
It’s been about 36 hours?
Maybe we’re using an old version or something, but code blocks still don’t expand horizontally to fill the available space, so we just get a horizontal slider bar.
Yes, that’s my beef. If I need to juggle content to external text editors to read them, then IMO it has failed the categorical imperative of the tool.
Edit:
Back to work Monday morning:
Collapse all side bars, you get 89 monospaced characters. Approximately 2/3 of the horizontal screen space is reserved for empty space.
I prefer the way Slack groups threaded conversations within a channel. Teams channels are clunky enough that we just end up using group chats instead.
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Literally every week I encounter new bugs, it gets worse and worse. Many very basic features (like inline code with back ticks) just stopped working months ago and don’t work anymore. Scrolling in some channels is completely broken, jumping around wildly. Sometimes messages just don’t get sent (both on Android & Web). Sometimes calls work perfectly all day, then the next call just randomly changes audio device settings and I have to find what’s wrong again. Sometimes the video stream of a shared screen just doesn’t work, or stops working when switching to the small pop-up window while looking at chats, so the other person has to re-share. Sometimes the “available” state is just broken and keeps getting set to “away”. The search just doesn’t find many things, even when searching with fairly exact parameters.
It’s a daily source of frustration & literally gets worse by the week. I can’t remember a program that’s made me angry as much as Teams has.
Teams is trash, I have to use it with certain clients, slack for everything else. Literally everything it does is like a wish.com fail version of slack. Like if you ordered slack on temu.
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Definitely not gonna defend Microsoft’s naming, let alone their versioning!
They are now finally putting some work in to improve it. I don’t remember much what I used to hate particularly, it was mostly UI related, bugs or the bad Mac implementation.
The new combined view with chats and teams is much better than the split sections.
It took them until just recently to have a basic code block format like everyone else, instead of this annoying editor-in-editor mess they had before (and still kept for some reason).
It used to be very buggy like you had to hunt down the source of some notification to mark it as read. It still doesn’t 100% sync with Outlook. If an event is cancelled and I click delete in Outlook, I also have to go to Teams and „read“ this update. You can set group events in Teams but they somehow don’t end up in Outlook.
What I really like are the clay-like emojis designs.
Bugs around read-notifications are pretty bad. Slack still has those, but they’re infrequent and transient, and often solvable with a hard-refresh.
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Do you really use Teams? If you do, you should not be able to say that
I used it briefly when it first came out; otherwise no, my employers have used Slack.