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Re:GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023 by smcleod on Monday February 13, 2023 @03:19PM (#34779765)
What on earth have you used before?! I struggle to think of anything worse than Teams, maybe Amazon chime but pretty much everything I've used over the years is a good step up from Teams.
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Re:GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023 by Quarrelsome on Monday February 13, 2023 @03:42PM (#34780115)
Skype for business? Teams is way better than that.

I mean its not great but I feel like on Windows at least (idk about Mac or Linux) it's just distinctly average.

The only thing about teams that drove me crazy in the years of having to suffer it its search function and how the mobile app puts the logout action into settings (I lost my mind once trying to find it).

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Re:GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023 by mrguyorama on Monday February 13, 2023 @03:54PM (#34780291)
Nah skype for business was the bomb. It worked exactly like 2005 MSN messenger, was simple, efficient, and screen sharing and video calling was hard so people wouldn't start a damn video call or ask me to join a video call for things that should be a damn email.
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Re:GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023 by culopatin on Monday February 13, 2023 @04:51PM (#34781208)
Except that keeping track of chats was as much of a pain as it is in teams. Things that were absolutely not a problem in MSN messenger in 2004
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Re:GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023 by mrguyorama on Monday February 13, 2023 @05:17PM (#34781597)
Every single chat I had in skype for business caused a transcript to be emailed to me.
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Re:GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023 by culopatin on Monday February 13, 2023 @07:57PM (#34783616)
Like I want more emails. Why did Skype start a blank chat every time I talked to someone? Close the chat? Bam, go find that transcript
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Re:GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023 by SV_BubbleTime on Monday February 13, 2023 @03:41PM (#34780104)
We used Webex, LogMeIn, GoToMeeting, and Zoom.

I have yet to have a major complaint about Teams. It works, I have my meeting and I close it. I don't know what some of you want in a video conferencing app.

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Re:GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023 by ElectricalUnion on Monday February 13, 2023 @04:23PM (#34780770)
> It works, I have my meeting and I close it.

I wish that was true. Good for you. Not good for people expected to be "online" in it for longer.

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