That’s all.

EDIT: Thank you all for detailing your experience with, and hatred for, this miserable product. Your display of solidarity is inspiring. Now, say it with me:

Fuck Microsoft

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Yeah, I have a similar experience, but it certainly lacks in features compared to other messengers. For example:

    • chat - formatting is terrible, Slack is way better here
    • groups - haven’t bothered figuring them out, in Slack making a channel or group message is super natural
    • resources - Teams eats RAM like crazy, Slack seems to be a bit more respectful
    • recent chats/messages - I can never find what I’m looking for, with Slack it’s simple

    I like the integration w/ Outlook because we’re basically forced to use it at work, but Slack is way better for almost everything that doesn’t interact directly w/ Outlook. So if it’s not a scheduled meeting, I and my team much prefer Slack.

    • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Gotta say, formatting of text isn’t a high priority for me… I’m pinging someone about a thing, I’m not writing a presentation. Adding emojis is about as much as I need 🤔

      And - to me - adding people to an adhoc group call / chat is straight forwards - and finding those conversations later is too

      But, I believe that there’s a few Corp IT settings that can be adjusted (we’ve recently lost the ability to add gifs for example), so maybe that’s what’s going wrong.

      But we’re a long way from AOL IM 😉

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        1 month ago

        I send code snippets, quote sections of linked documents, and provide in-line links pretty often, kind of like here on Lemmy. Slack isn’t as nice as Markdown, but it’s good enough, whereas Teams is a complete pain in in the butt and it completely butchers code blocks. That said, I’m a team lead, so I fairly frequently post about recent releases, security issues, or give cliff notes of recent meetings, so formatting for me matters quite a bit.

        And for calls, we have multiple logical groups of people, such as:

        • development teams
        • team leads (for all teams)
        • groups by location
        • groups by role (developers, QA, etc)
        • release groups - may be part of a team, multiple teams, or parts of multiple teams
        • automated alerts when prod has an issue

        And we have ad-hoc group chats where just a handful of people need to be involved, but they don’t fit cleanly into one of the established groups above (e.g. project manager wants to know a rough estimate for an upcoming project).

        Teams works fine, but I find it annoying to use.