Microsoft Teams on Windows 11 gets Discord-like communities and an AI art tool
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My experience will all web based microsoft apps including teams (both desktop and web) is that it's crazy slow - there's a good 1sec flash between changing screens/chats, and even then it still has to load the content. I realize that doesn't sound like a ton of time but it's agony.
It also takes forever to load other people's statuses when changing chats for some reason, and it unloads chat history so quickly in both directions that scrolling through a chat is so painful.
Compared to discord which feels near instantly loads whatever server/chat you click on (at least relative to teams).
except Discord sucks when you try to browse anything while offline. absolutely no caching whatsoever on their Android client which sucks. i try to load up some items to read while on the plane before take off and Discord is one of the worst apps to use while offline. the reddit client i use (Sync), Twitter, Chrome etc. does a good job of caching its contents for immediate use. Discord won't even load channels on the server let alone any messages.
But its already ubiquitous. I dont think even MS can overcome the network effect outside of their niche (like teams based businesses).