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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 57 points 6 months ago (4 children)

the universal hate teams gets warms my heart.

the ubiquitousness of it dumbfounds me though.

fuck teams.

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago (3 children)

When something is both universally hated and almost always chosen above less hated competitors, that's usually a sign that there's some kind of market failure. Maybe it's anticompetitive conduct by the provider (like Microsoft using its market power on Outlook/Exchange to push other services like Teams over its competition), or a principal-agent problem (like the person paying for Teams not actually having to live with most of the shittiness).

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

They bundle teams with o365. The cost to integrate another messaging client is more than simply adding Teams to your already expensive bundle.

[–] shylosx@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

It's as simple as this really. It's included therefore a subscribing company can just not renew a slack, Zoom, or whatever contract and say "hey we saved money"

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

They actually just decoupled teams from o365 in preparation for this exact situation. As of April 30th you no longer get teams with your tenant skus anymore unless you are grandfathered in to the older skus that bundled it.

[–] havocpants@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago

Maybe it’s anticompetitive conduct by the provider (like Microsoft using its market power on Outlook/Exchange to push other services like Teams over its competition)

That's exactly what it is. They leveraged their dominance/monopoly in one market to gain a stranglehold on another market. It's not exactly a new tactic for Microsoft either.

[–] nixcamic@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And also all of their competition also kinda sucks. So like, Teams is worse enough that if you're using it every day you'll hate it but not worse enough that if you use it once or twice you'll notice.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Slack seems great, I've had no problems with it

[–] StaySquared@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Second this. Slack is glorious.

[–] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Huh, it's funny, my company uses Webex and I'd probably prefer Teams.

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

It’s ubiquitous because it was added for free to Office 365, so companies would use it instead of its competitors

Microsoft changed that for new customers a couple weeks ago and it’s now a separate subscription

The standard make it free until it’s ubiquitous then start charging for it

[–] tacosplease@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Not trying to simp for TEAMS, but what issues are people having? Every now and then I have to go in and change mic and speakers back to laptop, presumably from some update our IT deployed.

Other than that and wanting it to show on MY screen when I'm transmitting sound, I can't think of any improvements. Works better than the conference calls we used to have.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

how resource heavy and slow for what it is, how notifications break a lot of the time, how obtuse and unintuitive it usually is to do some simple stuff like sharing meetings and how everything thats not an absolute core feature will glitch out 8 times out of 10.

i'm sure some of these were fixed while they broke other stuff, they fuck around with it all the time. im thankfully not being forced to use it for a while right now.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 7 points 6 months ago

To add: how I have "2 unread messages", but nothing when filtered for unread. My phone will forever have 2 unread messages.

[–] LinusSexTips@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

We used Teams at the last org I worked at, we rarely had issues. The UI wasn't bad in my eyes, we had integrated our phone system into teams too. Calling someone on the other side of the country via teams was simple.

Admittedly the service did get worse before I left and there were a couple of Microsoft outages which cut all our text based communications for a day (phone system still worked)

I'm using slack right now but would prefer something self-hosted but that's well out of the scope of the current mob I'm with.

[–] arcayne@lemmy.today 2 points 6 months ago

If you ever reach a point where self-hosting does become a possibility, I'd recommend checking out Mattermost.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not sure how long it's been since your last org, but a lot has changed in the Teams universe as of late (and mostly not for the better).

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Eh, it works pretty well in our org. We use it for almost all of our meetings, and we have pretty much no issues. Then again, our entire team is on macOS and we have it integrated at the corporate level (so meeting rooms and whatnot use it), and it's a pretty solid experience.

My main complaints are:

  • chats absolutely suck
  • seems to use a bunch of resources
  • people we interview seem to have issues (I'm guessing the webapp sucks?)

We use Slack for text communication and impromptu video chats, so the chat issues don't bother me all that much.

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

so your main complaints are that its most basic usecase sucks, but it works quite well. which is it?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Chats are not the most basic use case for Teams, meetings are. And meetings work pretty well.

[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

No markdown support, emojis are typed with a parenthesis, search is meh, notifications are buggy, spellcheck is broken

Oh and file sharing basically doesn't work

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 months ago

on android, it is the only app I have found that's not compatible with my keyboard. You read that right. How the hell do you fuck that up?