this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2024
1447 points (96.3% liked)

Technology

59347 readers
5349 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

That’s all.

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

I love how they rolled out the new upgraded Teams and it's still awful!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 minutes ago (1 children)

You put more effort into this post than M$ did to their product

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 minutes ago

Thanks, your bill is in the mail.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 52 minutes ago* (last edited 52 minutes ago) (1 children)

It's the worst and has been running like total crap for years. Even Skype for business worked better. Luckily it is better than Cisco Jabber or Webex.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 48 minutes ago (1 children)

My boss puts it best. WebEx for Calling, Zoom for Meetings and Teams for Collaboration (the actual Teams function).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 40 minutes ago

I used Webex at my last job, it was pretty decent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 59 minutes ago (2 children)

Yeah I'm going to go ahead and record this meeting. Please speak up if you object. Because we've provided so much psychological safety that there will surely be no judgement or fear of reprisal for those with any hesitation to swim in line with the corporate current. We're also going to share files in this chat that you'll have to catalogue and remember - so when someone refers to a nondescript file shared 3 weeks ago you'll be forced to know exactly which chat and file you're referring to. Also, put yourself on video. We appreciate face to face communication.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes ago

That's not really Teams fault though. Sounds more like a team issue than a Teams issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 24 minutes ago

The work of the devil

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

As if there's a single lead developer behind MS Teams. There's probably like 100+ devs working on it in a dozen teams or more.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Do you think the Microsoft Teams team uses Microsoft Teams in their teams to develop Microsoft Teams?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 minutes ago

I heard even the dev team behind MS SourceSafe didn't use SourceSafe. I don't blame them.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I dont know.. SharePoint has pissed me the hell off too, its a close one

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Fun fact, teams backend is sharepoint. It's just a fancy wrapper on top 🤡

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Well now I just feel bad for the team behind teams 🤣

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Since I have not seen anyone mention this problem yet: Teams doesn't let you mute other people in a call for yourself. Obviously also no volume control per person. Imagine sitting next to your coworker in a teams meeting and having to deal with hearing them twice with like 20 ms delay. Awful.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago (5 children)

Out of curiosity are any similar products actually good? My company uses Webex and frankly I'd rather use teams.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

We used to use Slack + Zoom and had a much better experience than Teams.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 51 minutes ago

I prefer Zulip but because we have Teams we use teams.

https://zulip.com/features/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Slack is better than Teams IMO, but I don't know if I'd call it "good."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Zulip is better than slack

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Zoom and Google Meets have both worked better for me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

My company switched from WebEx to Teams and while Teams is not great it's way better than WebEx.

Within my actual team we just use Slack Huddles unless we have to record. For my personal stuff I prefer Jitsi.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

I no longer work with corporations, but an online ornithology classI did used teams. It worked, mostly, for a while. Then one day it decided that video would no longer work on my machine. Of course there's no obvious log or anything.

I even booted windows to see if it would fix it, but no.

That was on a very exotic yoga 7 pro laptop.

It's the only piece of software that's ever behaved that way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I use it daily and think it's excellent. Skype, on tnge other hand, is diabolical.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

🌈You’re insane💫

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

I can’t believe we still can’t moderate chat in a public webinar…. « Hey the guy who wrote ‘FUCK’ 20 times? Yeah you can kick him out, but make sure to keep these messages visible for all posterity »

Can’t send private messages to outsiders also. Who could EVER need this in a public event anyway?

And make sure you can’t let people join the breakout room of their choice. Take the time to individually assign them one by one before the meeting! Fun!!

Hey at least we can play Backgammon in a meeting, so there’s that right?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

No, no! Dogshit sometimes fertilizes and promotes growth. Microsoft teams is poison.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I still don't want it on my desk though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

For the budding gardeners who might see this, do not use dogshit as fertilizer for the plants you eat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Hey, poison has it's uses too, unlike Teams.

load more comments
view more: next ›