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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by maxerickson on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @11:06PM (#32934381)
SharePoint gives you versioned file storage that searches inside of files. It's a big step up from a network drive or whatever.

(and that's just the really basic out of the box usage)

Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by oneplane on Thursday September 22, 2022 @08:00AM (#32937658)
So in essence, a bad wiki but with WebDAV ;-) But I was mostly talking about the "everything is different, from the rest of the MS ecosystem" and "everything you really want you have to bolt on".

When you use M365 you even get multiple sharepoint-esque instances where there is the subscription one that you get in your general web interface, there is "your own" instance which is the same but more primitive, and then there is a pseudo-instance which is used by all apps (even the web apps) to sort-of aggregate them with infinite loops as a result (some of the interfaces allow you to browse between the instances so you can to into a virtual directory, then go into the same directory but in the other instance, and from there to into yet the same directory again but in the other instance, and so forth).

Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by prepend on Thursday September 22, 2022 @09:13AM (#32938337)
I find Shareapoint versioning pretty terrible in that it versions every change and doesn’t let me do tags or releases. So with office auto save I’ll have 700 versions of a file as people changed one sentence a minute for a few hours.

I actually prefer a network drive over SharePoint because there are fewer lock and sync issues.

Especially compared to Dropbox or Google Drive (or even OneDrive) it’s so hard to use for file sharing.

I literally would prefer mediawiki from the 2000s in terms of ui and support ability.

Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by maxerickson on Thursday September 22, 2022 @05:23PM (#32944806)
If you turn on minor versions there is a publish function, which is close enough to a release.