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Comment by ashton314 | Hacker News Reader

Teams is like the most developer-hostile piece of burning rubbish that I have ever had the misfortune to have to use. Sending little code snippets is such an important part of development. If a company has mandated Teams for all communications, you know they cannot be “developer friendly”—some management level is making decisions about what the engineers need.

While we’re bashing Teams—why are their notifications some awful custom window that doesn’t respect your OS notification settings?!??!

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I love it when the teams "you have a meeting now" notification pops up in front of the meeting lobby window you already have open and blocks you clicking the join meeting button.

Or when you're trying to leave a large meeting and everyone is typing "goodbye!" and "thanks!" messages in the chat, blocking your hangup button

Teams at least is slightly better than Skype For Business, which would hijack copy paste to put the sender's name and for some reason insert zero-width characters between every space.

Copying in Teams is messed up similarily where selecting message content also copies the timestamp and sender name even thought the selection shows otherwise.

It is worse than this, sometimes it does, sometimes it does not.

Today when I started typing, my cursor remained in the leftmost position and all of the characters appeared one by one to the right, effectively reversing all the text. I can't make this up.

This has happened to me in Gmail before. May be a chrome issue?

This is the behavior of the Unicode Right-to-Left Override character U+202E. Meant to embed Hebrew or Arabic text, it is most used by hackers to change their exploittxt.exe attachment to read exploitexe.txt

Negative Ghost Rider, this was teams being teams. I saw that post too. Not applicable here.

You were able to copy in teams?? Tell me the secret!

It almost never works for me.

"Skype for Business" is summed up by the fact that, AFAIK, it's just the old Lync codebase. Which was such a terrible product that they thought they'd be better off getting rid of its own branding and rubbing Skype on it.

It was so bad, even Microsoft couldn't make it work properly for themselves!

It also stomps on the .mimeapps.list file every time it starts (in Linux) up even if its already in the list. Annoying for me because mine is a symlink into the read only nix store in NixOS.

Not sure when, but on Windows at least, they finally integrated into Windows native alerts. You have to go find and enable the setting which is of by default...

The native windows alerts are pretty terrible also ..

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