Teams pretends it’s an app that can do a lot of things at once but for literally all of the things it pretends to be good at it is the worst possible choice.
At my office, it works flawlessly for what we use it for, which is video conferences and chat. We don’t mess with the workspaces and stuff.
The only thing I truly hate about it is that you can’t export a log of a chat. As a government worker, I’m waiting for the lawsuit over Open Records over the lack of that feature.
I use teams all the time at work and it seems to do what it needs to do well.
Calls/meetings work wel, chatting works well. It’s not perfect, but more than good enough.
Sounds like it’s working great for you- I wish it would for me too! I’m not OP but some of my main gripes are:
Most calls have, for at least one caller, a wierd lag time where the call doesn’t start for 10 seconds or so
Quite frequently (I’d guess 5 calls a month) a call will be disrupted by teams failing completely for someone on the call (camera not working, not being able to join etc)
It uses a lot of RAM even when idling
It has hundreds of features, like “together mode” that bloat the software without adding to its core functionality
The UI is a confused mess, and the conceptual split between teams, channels and chats is messyat best.
On top of that, I don’t find teams makes me more productive, if feels like a constant distraction that modern corporate culture requires me to have, even though its a net drop in productivity. This last point is more on instant messengers as a whole, but it doesn’t place me in a very charitable or forgiving mindset for interpretting Team’ multitude of flaws.
We indeed never encounter the technical issues. A couple of years ago teams had issues with images in chats, but that’s the only technical issue i encountered.
And yeah, it’s got the usual bloat, but it’s not hard to ignore all the useless features. But indeed, if you have issues with calls, that sounds annoying.
What’s so bad about it?
I only use it in the browser to join meetings because an external client uses it. But in my experience it’s buggy whereas Slack and Zoom just work.
Teams pretends it’s an app that can do a lot of things at once but for literally all of the things it pretends to be good at it is the worst possible choice.
At my office, it works flawlessly for what we use it for, which is video conferences and chat. We don’t mess with the workspaces and stuff.
The only thing I truly hate about it is that you can’t export a log of a chat. As a government worker, I’m waiting for the lawsuit over Open Records over the lack of that feature.
and let me not start with the android client or the non existing support for linux users
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I use teams all the time at work and it seems to do what it needs to do well. Calls/meetings work wel, chatting works well. It’s not perfect, but more than good enough.
Sounds like it’s working great for you- I wish it would for me too! I’m not OP but some of my main gripes are:
Most calls have, for at least one caller, a wierd lag time where the call doesn’t start for 10 seconds or so
Quite frequently (I’d guess 5 calls a month) a call will be disrupted by teams failing completely for someone on the call (camera not working, not being able to join etc)
It uses a lot of RAM even when idling
It has hundreds of features, like “together mode” that bloat the software without adding to its core functionality
The UI is a confused mess, and the conceptual split between teams, channels and chats is messyat best.
On top of that, I don’t find teams makes me more productive, if feels like a constant distraction that modern corporate culture requires me to have, even though its a net drop in productivity. This last point is more on instant messengers as a whole, but it doesn’t place me in a very charitable or forgiving mindset for interpretting Team’ multitude of flaws.
We don’t get that lag but we do frequently get it when the camera doesn’t work for somebody.
I really can’t understand the separation between teams, channels and chats. We almost never use anything other than group chats.
We indeed never encounter the technical issues. A couple of years ago teams had issues with images in chats, but that’s the only technical issue i encountered.
And yeah, it’s got the usual bloat, but it’s not hard to ignore all the useless features. But indeed, if you have issues with calls, that sounds annoying.