NPM Is Joining GitHub

Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by Summershard on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @01:07PM (#22607175)

> Microsoft Teams (Microsofts's surprisingly better clone of Slack)

Personal experience, but I have not found a single person who likes MS Teams. Usually people around me say that Slack is ok-ish, while MS Teams is crap.

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by atraac on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @01:45PM (#22607728)

Agree, Teams is an absolute shitshow of a communicator. Everything's wrong about it, from unintuitive UX, incredibly slow UI, up to terrible API design where even making a simple bot is laughably hard(try working with 'chats' instead of 'teams' or 'channels' and you'll see). Recent days also proved how bad infrastructure they have, they're not capable at handling bigger traffic at all. I've used Slack equally long before that and it was amazingly good in comparison(still not perfect though).

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by kuraudoOishii on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @02:22PM (#22608259)

I'll tell you one thing it does better: audio/video conferencing. We went full WFH and the usual suspects couldn't support us, but we discovered that teams is a thing we pay for and operates like a champ, haha.

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by gtyras2mrs on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @02:57PM (#22608753)

While Teams isn't as good as Slack IMO, it is better than the experience of using Skype (Lync) For Business by a country mile.

I've the misfortune of being forced to use Skype and I would kill to have it replaced with Teams at my workplace.

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by Galanwe on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @12:05AM (#22613513)

Skype for Business is not Skype. It's just a rebranding of Lync that happened after Skype acquisition.

There is a half-baked link between Skype and Lync to make it seem like it's the same product. This link is all shitty mainly because Lync and Skype work completely differently, and even simple things like call signaling have to deal with years of legacy Microsoft SIP extensions that were punched into Lync.

I remember the first time we received access to the Lync code repository. That stuff was a multi-GB (!!!) repository that contained files, promo videos, PDFs, code, etc. That tells you much about the development practices behind Lync.

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by shifto on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @05:51AM (#22615006)

I still run a Lync Server 2010 at home to chat with my wife using a MSN looking messenger. We used to chat a lot using MSN messenger and this is a way to hold onto it. I don't mind Lync at all!

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by graphememes on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @01:18PM (#22607328)

I actually enjoy it, more than slack.

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by cocoa19 on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @12:10AM (#22613542)

You haven't suffered worse tools. Have you ever heard of Lotus Notes / Lotus Sametime?

It's not great, but in the corporate space, Teams does an OK job, and MS is a reputable company for B2B.

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by legooolas on Monday March 23, 2020 @08:13AM (#22663243)

"Better than Lotus Notes" is not a high bar.

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