This is gonna sound like a troll post but i assure you it is not.
I don’t have a coding background but I’ve used Teams in a lot of workplaces and really only encountered like 2 issues entirely.
Either I got seriously lucky or it was before enshittification.
Why do you yourself dislike it? Is it UI? Performance?
I should also say I use Teams for basic purposes like messaging and uploading files, I literally don’t touch anything else and performance hadn’t been an issue. (Likely because I’ve been given thicc-ass workstations in the past)
At least in my work instance, by default it sends me an alert any time someone posts a reaction emoji in one of the dozen chat channels.
So you into your settings and turn that off. Yes the default is annoying, but it’s literally a 30 second fix to never have it happen again.
I did. My point is that this productivity tool hurts your productivity until you tinker with it to make it less annoying.
It only annoys some users, a lot of people like knowing someone has acknowledged their message.
It should be off by default.
Then people who do like it wouldn’t even know it exists. It’s usually better in an environment that lacks standard training for every user to enable by default, and then have the users disable if they don’t want it.
Your car has ABS, but you don’t have to turn it on to use it, it’s on by default and users can (usually) turn it off when they don’t want it.
Cool, cool. Spamming the hell out of users is definitly necessary to let them know it exists islnstead of asking them if they want notifications the first time they start it up.
They should just know there is a setting to turn it iff then, right?
I can’t set my mic to be automatically muted when I join a meeting. I have to choose every time.
I can’t adjust the brightness of my camera exceot for whatever ‘Enhance’ does.
Guess I’ll just keep looking for settings when basic ones don’t exist.
There are settings for notifications in every single app these users have ever encountered in both their professional personal lives. The basic understand for apps by users it that notification settings exist. They may not know that there is a specific option to turn one specific type of notification on, but they should know they can turn shit off.
I’ve never noticed an issue with the muting thing, It’s a fraction of a second when joining to pick what settings I want for that meeting which does vary so it’s helpful to have.
Brightness settings for Camera… holy shit… Light yourself properly. Ring lights are $30 on amazon, get one and look actually professional when attending your meetings.
Beyond the basic point that other video apps have had brightness settings for decades, saying to spend more money to fix the feature is asinine.
There is plenty of light for zoom, Teams is dark. When I go to a conference I’m not going to lug a fucking ring light around for a random video call in a quiet corner. Instead, they could just put a brightness slider in like a competent company.
It is impressive how hard you are shilling for Teams by excusing a lack of basic functionality.
No there isn’t, if you have to adjust the brightness digitally the camera itself is not getting enough light based on what it was designed for.
Teams does have a brightness setting, it’s just a toggle rather than a slider. If that still isn’t enough, then you are sitting in a pitch black room. I just tested this, with every light in my room off, including the overhead and the direct facial lighting, the teams toggle is enough to make me reasonably visible in the light from my screen alone.
I don’t need the toggle on at all with an overhead light on, and the annoying shadows from the overhead room light go away with my facial lighting on.
Here’s a $21 clip on USB powered laptop ring light, https://www.amazon.com/Meyin-Brightness-Conference-Broadcasting-Streaming/dp/B0D1DTF7H6
Yup, there is zero gap between the sunlit oark that Teams needs to have a decent picture and a pitch black room. Clearly zoom is doing some magic by having a brighter picture even with the default settings, it can’t just be Teams that is the problem.