Even with 49% up sales and a 46% drop in expenses Slack still cant turn a profit

Re:Even with 49% up sales and a 46% drop in expenses Slack s... by ponker on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @04:16PM (#24425426)

Teams is utterly devoid of charm. If your goal is to "send this string to Jim Bob" then Teams works just as well as Slack but if you want an application that's enjoyable to use for multiple hours per day, Teams is not the droid you're looking for.

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Re:Even with 49% up sales and a 46% drop in expenses Slack s... by foepys on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @04:34PM (#24425622)

I don't care about charm in my chat application. It is supposed to deliver text and media to one or more recipients in real-time. I don't need stickers, emojis, reactions gifs, or memes. A chat is not my main application, not even in my top 10.

If it doesn't work as expected, I will try the next. There is literally 0 loyalty involved in my company.

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Re:Even with 49% up sales and a 46% drop in expenses Slack s... by cwsx on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @07:55PM (#24427386)

My core problem with this comes down to UX. I don't think that falls under 'charm' but Teams feels horrible to use in comparison to Slack.

As an example, when switching to Teams to reply to a message why does it focus the search bar instead of the chat window? How often do users search (as their first focussed action) in comparison to using the chat window?

Teams seems to be full of these minor UX annoyances that all add up to make Teams a chore to use. Slack has done a much better job on UX (in my opinion).

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Re:Even with 49% up sales and a 46% drop in expenses Slack s... by kyawzazaw on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @07:52PM (#24427358)

How many employees are in your company? Are they all technically inclined? Switching from one to tool to another frequently is quite a drain, imo.

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Re:Even with 49% up sales and a 46% drop in expenses Slack s... by lawnchair_larry on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @04:54PM (#24425802)

Sounds like a feature to me. Aside from the poor experience on mobile, I’d be happier still using IRC. But I’m probably not most people.

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Re:Even with 49% up sales and a 46% drop in expenses Slack s... by ponker on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @10:01PM (#24428161)

It could be a feature. No question that people with Slack likely send more messages per day than people with Teams. That could be a plus or a minus.

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Re:Even with 49% up sales and a 46% drop in expenses Slack s... by elkos on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @07:03PM (#24426961)

I love using IRC via the Element/matrix solution. It covers my needs and its pretty effective for what I use it for.

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Re:Even with 49% up sales and a 46% drop in expenses Slack s... by magicalhippo on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @06:56PM (#24426878)

We use it as a business tool. Charm is not a consideration.

Teams works for us. Chat works, charming or not. And say suddenly you need to share your desktop while chatting to show some issue, well no problem. Need to invite a couple of folks from support to get some of their input? No problem, just invite them. Poof you got an ad-hoc meeting going and you get an issue solved in 5-10 minutes and customer is happy.

It's not like I want to marry it, but for the most part it works quite well and doesn't get in my way. And so it's a decent enough tool.

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Re:Even with 49% up sales and a 46% drop in expenses Slack s... by Wagmire on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @10:15PM (#24428256)

Teams is functional and user friendly. Bosses approve of functionality over ejoyment and admin probably spends less on an extension to microsoft office.

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