I used to think “Teams can’t be that bad” and then I had to use it for work. It’s astonishingly bad. I’m not sure if it’s just how they use it at this place, but it’s bad.
Everything is a chat. There’s no channels. So nothing is discoverable, and if you sort of remember a conversation you have to see if it was in the standup chat, in the planning chat, in a ad hoc chat…
There’s no threads. So if you have a chat for say release-123, and someone says “Feature 1 has a bug” and someone else says “Feature-2 has a bug”, you can’t isolate them in separate threads. It’s all flat so they smash into each other.
It’s a good example of why no one ever tried to build an ‘everything’ app. It just doesn’t work, and there are so many terrible design decisions, like having multiple places you have to go to manage settings, where most apps have only one.
Install Linux, Problem Solved.
This is the Year of the Linux Desktop.
This is almost certainly a work-related thing. Most people, even on Windows, hate Teams and don’t use it unless they have to for their job.
I used to think “Teams can’t be that bad” and then I had to use it for work. It’s astonishingly bad. I’m not sure if it’s just how they use it at this place, but it’s bad.
Everything is a chat. There’s no channels. So nothing is discoverable, and if you sort of remember a conversation you have to see if it was in the standup chat, in the planning chat, in a ad hoc chat…
There’s no threads. So if you have a chat for say release-123, and someone says “Feature 1 has a bug” and someone else says “Feature-2 has a bug”, you can’t isolate them in separate threads. It’s all flat so they smash into each other.
It’s a good example of why no one ever tried to build an ‘everything’ app. It just doesn’t work, and there are so many terrible design decisions, like having multiple places you have to go to manage settings, where most apps have only one.
Every time I have to start a new chat it takes me 15 minutes to figure out how to do it. The Teams UI is positively hostile.