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I'm a .NET developer and I'm very pleased with the direction the tech stack is heading, but man. Microsoft Teams is so much worse than Slack.

The UI is so much less intuitive, but worse, they haven't figured out scrolling. I can't scroll quickly through chat history -- it's always loading -- meaning it's much harder to get the information I want. On the other hand, maybe Slack takes up so much memory because it pre-loads everything.

But even more damningly, there are fewer emojis. Sometimes there is no emoji for what I am feeling.

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Huh, I didn't even realize Teams had a custom emoji picker. I've been mostly using the Windows emoji keyboard in teams, which gives you the full Unicode emoji set, and now kaomoji, at the press of Win+. or Win+; (whichever is more convenient on your keyboard layout)

LOL, coolest thing I've learned today... didn't know windows even had an emoji picker built in.

This is pretty cool. How was it supposed to ever be discovered though?

Random semi-related comments on HN? ;)

(I learned about it from Insider blogs as they were adding the hardware keyboard shortcuts/experience to Windows builds. [It's been on the soft keyboards for tablet/mobile UX for much longer.])

Is it just me or it became more difficult to search words in a chat?

When I try to find something in a chat I would give up if it was written more than a week ago, as you mention scroll is really bad/slow and searching doesn’t help, so I end up asking the person if he/she remembers the thing I’m looking for.

and teams search will bring you to the exact word you searched, but not show the context/conversation AROUND that message.

Man!! biggest problem of 2019 developer in communication :emoji:. Try using gifs, there always seems exact one for the mood, or maybe words.

At my last workplace it was fun choosing oddly specific reaction emojis for comments.

Like I loaded a gif of a dumpster fire and used it as emoji. I uploaded a picture of my face to use as an emoji. I uploaded the "It's free real estate!" guy.

Yes, I'm 33, my coworkers were younger but I have the meme knowledge of someone 2/3rds my age due to endless reddit scrolling, thank you. I can keep up with the kids.

That's great, that's fun. What's the business value of using gifs in business discussion though? I thought they were almost exclusively used for emotional expression only.

Emotional expression is an important component of high bandwidth business communication.

I find myself using the :poop: emoji a lot...

I am both bemused and somewhat concerned that you seems to hold the belief that "business discussions" are conducted outside of the realm of "emotional expression".

I'm 44... and most of this isn't really all that new... sure, now we have unicode characters instead of :-) but this stuff started all the way back in the 80's.

Eternal September.

Perhaps you're unaware of the panoply of extremely postmodern memes that come out every week in the darkest crevices of the internet?

Also translations are horrible for such a big project. “Like” for me (danish) is translated to something like “send a heart” but even more gibberish.

Notifications are also wonky.

The gif search is so bad too, for whatever reason.

Stop having feelings. Your communication effectiveness will improve.

EDIT: I thought about saying - and nobody cares. But I thought that was cruel. But, it's also true, so I'm making this edit to add that back in...

asdfman123 is referencing The Simpsons.

Oh. That's unfortunate. I am culturally inept. I was intending to be mildly jocular (in a dry way) and got swooshed. Welcome to Friday, I guess.

(There was no onion-on-the-belt reference, so at that point - I was lost!)

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