> Your users live in Teams.

No, I assure you, we do not. Nobody wants to live in hell. Even at my current company, we are mandated solely to use Teams for meetings. But nobody uses it for chat.

Thankfully we have Slack to save us from that hell. Even if giphy is disabled because it might have R rated content whatever the hell that means.

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m348e912 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>> Your users live in Teams.

> No, I assure you, we do not

This absolutism is tiring. I can assure you there are plenty of companies who use teams as their sole messaging platform. My company uses slack, teams, and zoom. Which one you use the most depends on the person or the team they are on. (Although zoom is being phased out to the chagrin of some folks).

Teams isn't without it's issues, it's annoyingly slow, and startup takes so long I have missed a meeting or two because of it. But, the conferencing experience is pretty decent, and I think you're just being contrarian for the sake of it.

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psnehanshu 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Slack is a different kind of hell now with their sales-force

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userbinator 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Fortunately, there are companies which still use IRC and other entirely-open standards such as SIP for collaborative communication.

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fuzzzerd 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sounds nice. I've seen places that have essentially given up email in favor of teams for all communication.

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leosanchez 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

IMO Only thing good about Teams is Emojis

	▲	crote 2 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Except for the fact where their emoji :shortcodes: are different from everyone elses, so if you're not careful you end up looking like a lunatic.
	▲	dgan 39 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Cant wait to look like an idiot after sending a heart to my boss while trying to select the hostname
	▲	Jedd 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Do you mean the way that Microsoft hijacked open-parenthesis, and you can't choose a different character to trigger an emoji call?
	▲	biglyburrito 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		And yet Slack still does it better

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SV_BubbleTime 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I know it’s NerdCool to hate on Teams, but I really don’t get it.

I’m in Linux with portal for teams (electron app)… and it’s fine. Like, we moved to it from slack and I just don’t see much of a difference. I type stuff, and people see it. I set up a call and people join, we talk.

What is it that is so broken, or is it just cool to hate?

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minetest2048 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I type stuff, and people see it

I wish... I'm on Windows 11 Enterprise with corporate Teams, definitely 100% Microsoft approved combination and:

- on one channel my message never got sent, while on another channel it does work

- sometimes when I scrolled up the old messages doesn't show up, with a 'message removed by organization retention policy' text.. but those are messages from yesterday and sometimes when I restarted Teams it shows up again.. sometime it doesn't but when I opened web Teams it does show up

- sometime I can't connect to Teams for no reason, restarting Teams and computer doesn't help either, went to the IT helpdesk and they spent several minutes redoing what I did until they just googled it and delete the cookies or something

I also used slack and from my perspective its 100% reliable at delivering text messages

	▲	noufalibrahim 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I use Linux and try to use Teams in Chrome for some client communications. It's been a frustrating experience to get myself logged in. There's a lot of confusion about my live account, microsoft account and several others that i'm not familiar with. I usually just run it without logging in now and just type my name. Slack is definitely better but I have had issues with message delivery and things especially across the "native" desktop application and the mobile app.
	▲	skirmish 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Flaky Wifi connection? Maybe Slack just retries more, and Teams gives up easily?

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theshrike79 6 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Try being a consultant who needs to have access to 2+ Teams accounts simultaneously.

On Slack I can just press command - <number> and I'm switching between client Slack accounts.

On Teams? Nope. Nope. Nope.

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userbinator an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I suspect those who honestly think Teams is fine have never used anything better.