Ask HN: Why is MS Teams so slow, do devs test Teams on less powerful machines?

Re:Ask HN: Why is MS Teams so slow, do devs test Teams on le... by tehbeard on Thursday February 17, 2022 @05:49PM (#30379772)

... Ok I have to know what else is running on your PC because aside from needing to kick it once or twice when there was a major outage to get back in, it's been smooth.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is MS Teams so slow, do devs test Teams on le... by brimble on Thursday February 17, 2022 @06:04PM (#30379930)

Not just me, all ~8 of us using it. Mac and Windows both. Every single session (2-3 hours, usually) at least one person's client simply crashes. [EDIT] more typically, it's like one crash every 30-45 minutes, but I don't think we've ever made it through without at least one crash.

[EDIT AGAIN] I'd guesstimate its person-hour-of-use crash rate at at least 20x that of Slack, from what I've seen. Maybe quite a bit higher.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is MS Teams so slow, do devs test Teams on le... by throw10920 on Friday February 25, 2022 @05:20PM (#30473053)

Not everyone has a Core i7 made two years ago. Discord takes 10 seconds to start up on my unloaded Core i5-6200u and a full 30 seconds when I'm playing a video game. Mumble, which is not written in Electron, starts up in 2-4 seconds while playing a game.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is MS Teams so slow, do devs test Teams on le... by smaudet on Thursday February 17, 2022 @11:56PM (#30382280)

Chat needs like 100mb tops to function...discord comes in im the half gig range that serious AAA games used to fall into 10 years ago, nevermind the abominable snowman Teams...

Once you run more than one chat in Discord even on recent PCs you see the suck.

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