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Everything looks good compared to MS Teams. Some of my lowlights:

1. Attrocious linux support. I use linux at work and its just a pure shitshow. Teams is only offered as PWA with horrible performance. Its far snappier on windows. There is even a community version called teams-for-linux which at least shows notifications in the tray icon and dock icon on ubuntu unlike the official one.

2. Groups are trash. You just wanna call 3 people? Well we made a group for you. Everytime you call a bunch of people it creates a group and that group is now a contact in your chat window. By now I have a group for every constillation of the team I work in. Its beyond annoying.

3. The text input tries to be too smart. Wanna insert code? You get a popup with your cursor in the „title“ part so if you press the code button and paste it ends up in the title. Great, gotta click in the textbox first.

4. Video calls arent much better. You sit next to a colleague and just wanna mute him cause you can hear him outside of teams? Yeah nope, not possible. Same goes for the missing feature of changing the volume of individual participants.

Discord does all of the things and is free for users. How in gods name is multi billion M$ not able to create a decent communication platform.

Desktop version is also atrocious on Windows.

Its slow. It's a resource hog. And it seems someone added onClick=sleep(500ms) on every part of the interface.

There is this thing that the message box keeps flashing and either takes a while to load or doesn't load if you search or scroll up too much.

There is this supper annoying thing when sometimes you try to copy text and it brings up the whole message including metadata instead. Who the hell asked for that?

Windows? The Mac version is even worse. First is the bug where all of the Teams windows disappear, never to be seen again. The only way to get the main window back is to restart Teams. And this one is always fun in the middle of a meeting: buttons suddenly need a double-click to send the click message. Oh, wait, just a single-...no, fuck, now it's back to double-click. "Yes, I'm trying to unmute."

Just those two bugs alone infuriate me on a daily basis (and of course I have list of others as long as my arm). It's not just one Mac, it's the iMac and work MBP. It's not just Intel or Apple Silicon, I have both. It's just plain broke, and I'm continually amazed that it got shipped that way.

> 2. Groups are trash. You just wanna call 3 people? Well we made a group for you. Everytime you call a bunch of people it creates a group and that group is now a contact in your chat window. By now I have a group for every constillation of the team I work in. Its beyond annoying.

Funnily enough, one man's trash is another's treasure. For me groups is a killer feature. just being able to create ad hoc groups for different threads of conversations is what makes teams tick for me. Without the groups, I would have to use channels which for me pretty much useless.

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