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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theshrike79 2 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

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minetest2048 2 hours ago | parent | prev | 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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userbinator an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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