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Counterpoint... I don't get all the hate for Teams. I work fully-remote on a medium sized team. We use Teams for one-one calls, team calls, presentations, scre

Counterpoint... I don't get all the hate for Teams. I work fully-remote on a medium sized team. We use Teams for one-one calls, team calls, presentations, screen-sharing, calls to external numbers and I've never had any problems. I run it on a Windows desktop and an Android phone. I've never had performance problems or crashes on either. Some of the file-sharing/explorer stuff is a bit janky in terms of UI but I don't really use that. TBH it's all fairly seamless IMO.

nhinck2 4y ago
About once every two to three days if I resize a teams window that has ongoing video call, it'll crash so hard that I have undock and redock my laptop to get my monitors to unfreeze.
Foobar8568 4y ago
In one company, I had strictly no problems with Teams, was working correctly, quality was great, with another, it was plagued with bugs. I suspect that it's highly configurable and highly dependent of windows policies that are set +network. At client, windows itself was unusable and people were blaming Microsoft... No it's the package team who did a shit job.
1shooner 4y ago
I regularly lose the ability to unmute or turn off my camera during Teams calls. In that case I have to hang up and rejoin to speak. It also regularly doesn't deliver notifications. At this point I just can't rely on it's primary functions.
bparsons 4y ago
Never had an issue with Teams myself. It seems most problems stem from people using a crummy wifi connection to videoconference on their laptop.
ajoseps 4y ago
Have you tried copy/pasting from teams to another application, or especially code snippets? If you're lucky you can copy what you highlight, otherwise you copy the entire text of the current message with timestamp and all. Code snippets are a pain to get right. The tilde key is the shortcut to get monospace fonts or code blocks, and it feels like I roll the die everytime I try to convert text to a code block. Teleconferencing is also a major pain, where devices are not remembered for some reason. It's mostly ok, but every now and then it forgets my mic. This might have been fixed recently since it doesn't happen as often but it still happens. Not to mention the hangs that comes up when switching between conversations.
- tatersolid 4y ago
  > The tilde key is the shortcut to get monospace fonts or code blocks, and it feels like I roll the die everytime I try to convert text to a code block. Backticks are used for formatting code in Teams, not tildes. Surround in-line text in single backticks, or place three backticks on a new line to start a code block.
- zedadex 4y ago
  > Have you tried copy/pasting from teams to another application, or especially code snippets? Pasting in teams is hilarious. I think when I last tried they were using contenteditable, as formatting that should not have carried over did so, along with the indentation going haywire on paste.
bloqs 4y ago
The teams Android app is better made than every other platform including Windows. It's the only one where you can seamlessly switch accounts too

nhinck2 4y ago

About once every two to three days if I resize a teams window that has ongoing video call, it'll crash so hard that I have undock and redock my laptop to get my monitors to unfreeze.

Foobar8568 4y ago

In one company, I had strictly no problems with Teams, was working correctly, quality was great, with another, it was plagued with bugs. I suspect that it's highly configurable and highly dependent of windows policies that are set +network. At client, windows itself was unusable and people were blaming Microsoft... No it's the package team who did a shit job.

1shooner 4y ago

I regularly lose the ability to unmute or turn off my camera during Teams calls. In that case I have to hang up and rejoin to speak. It also regularly doesn't deliver notifications. At this point I just can't rely on it's primary functions.

bparsons 4y ago

Never had an issue with Teams myself. It seems most problems stem from people using a crummy wifi connection to videoconference on their laptop.

ajoseps 4y ago

Have you tried copy/pasting from teams to another application, or especially code snippets? If you're lucky you can copy what you highlight, otherwise you copy the entire text of the current message with timestamp and all. Code snippets are a pain to get right. The tilde key is the shortcut to get monospace fonts or code blocks, and it feels like I roll the die everytime I try to convert text to a code block. Teleconferencing is also a major pain, where devices are not remembered for some reason. It's mostly ok, but every now and then it forgets my mic. This might have been fixed recently since it doesn't happen as often but it still happens. Not to mention the hangs that comes up when switching between conversations.

tatersolid 4y ago
> The tilde key is the shortcut to get monospace fonts or code blocks, and it feels like I roll the die everytime I try to convert text to a code block. Backticks are used for formatting code in Teams, not tildes. Surround in-line text in single backticks, or place three backticks on a new line to start a code block.
zedadex 4y ago
> Have you tried copy/pasting from teams to another application, or especially code snippets? Pasting in teams is hilarious. I think when I last tried they were using contenteditable, as formatting that should not have carried over did so, along with the indentation going haywire on paste.

bloqs 4y ago

The teams Android app is better made than every other platform including Windows. It's the only one where you can seamlessly switch accounts too