I’ve used Meet, Slack, Zoom and Teams extensively. Teams beats the others by miles in my opinion.

const_cast 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Zoom is pretty good for video meetings and especially for video conferences. I've never tried to use it for chat, but I imagine it's pretty lackluster. The really nice thing about teams is that it does both in one place.

But you know what's super underrated and I think could really take a hold on the business world? Discord! The video calls are so good! And multiple streams at the same time? Zoom can't do that!

The channels, too, just blow everything teams has out of the water. The video quality is better, its way faster, has more features, and they actually work. The audio filtering stuff actually works.

I really think with the right marketing they could take over the world. Honestly can't believe they haven't tried it yet.

	▲	no_wizard 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		They would need to do a lot of alterations to make Discord viable in the business world, but I do agree the bones of the platform are miles ahead of Slack or Teams. It’s a shame they don’t have an enterprise / business tailored product based on it

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giancarlostoro 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Well... Slack feels like they have one person working on it dev wise, I havent used Meet in a while, but if its still a in-browser only thing, yikes, and Zoom... that is some legacy feeling app, I dont know how anyone can love Zoom. They bought out KeyBase and didn't even build a better platform. KeyBase was top tier, I'm still sour that the dev team basically stopped maintaining KeyBase after Zoom bought them out.

Teams took the best bits from Skype and whatever that other service Microsoft had for businesses and their phones and started over basically.

I still have pet peeves about Teams (like why dont the 'Teams' within Teams have proper group chats like Slack would, its ridiculous!) but it could be way worse. After years of screensharing hell I can finally move the stupid top bar out of my way when trying to hit 'Debug' within Visual Studio at least.

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dcow 3 days ago | parent [-]

Keybase works entirely fine to this day. What sucks is everyone stopped using it solely to retaliate against the acquisition with thin justifications in speculation that Zoom would ruin keybase. Well that didn't happen, Keybase’s own users ruined Keybase. And now everyone just uses Discord because I guess the encryption didn't actually matter when it counted. Sad but familiar security story.

	▲	giancarlostoro 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Agree. I stopped using it because its basically frozen, I dont think they've done any updates, the lights are on but nobody's home. If anyone who was an original stakeholder for Keybase is reading this, please bring it back in some way someday. I'm assuming Zoom probably made you guys sign some insane non-compete sadly. In a sea of garbage chat services all built using Electron and other bloatware, Keybase was a breath of fresh air.

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hu3 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I used to hate Teams but they seem to have fixed it for me.

It works decently enough in web, mobile and desktop.

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pjmlp 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

One day we will be able to have threaded conversations....

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pac0 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You are joking right?

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marliechiller 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

is this sarcasm? Teams is by far the worst ive used out of those mentioned

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PapaPalpatine 4 days ago | parent [-]

Yeah, if it’s not sarcasm, it’s a very good indicator that their opinion should be ignored because no one in their right mind would say Teams is better.

	▲	CharlesW 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Teams is objectively better, but it's hard to beat the emotional connection that geeks have to Slack from its pre-Salesforce days.