Re:GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
by lmm on Monday February 13, 2023 @07:45PM
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> It's also damning that the list of things I hate about it hasn't changed in the three years I've been using it heavily
Honestly, I'll take a program with a bunch of consistent downsides over one that has fewer downsides but comes up with new ones in each version.
Re:GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
by antifa on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @12:45AM
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Teams is so bad in weird inconsistent ways it feels they A/B downsides and bugs instead of features.
Re:GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
by X-Istence on Monday February 13, 2023 @07:57PM
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> Have they changed the thing where you only see a circle with people's initials during meetings and you have to click on them to see their actual names?
Nope.
Re:GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
by heleninboodler on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @01:48AM
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This one is inexplicable. I don't know my coworkers by their initials, I know them by their names. I know it sounds like a simple mental mapping, but first off, it apparently isn't because I see initials and then I have to go mentally step through names to figure out who it could match, and second, I have multiple team members whose initials are JS, you fucking idiots. Is this like a fun puzzle to some people? I don't get it at all. There is room for the names. Just display the names.
In fact, if you really want to beat zoom, show me a nice compact list of people in the meeting, with their names, with a sound meter, with their mute status, sorted by who spoke most recently. Make this something I can see in my main meeting window, for a fairly large number of people (let's say at least 25) without paging through them. Let it go to multiple columns if necessary and I give it space. Do NOT do the zoom thing and make them all get really big so I can still only see 8.
Have they changed the thing where you only see a circle with people's initials during meetings and you have to click on them to see their actual names?
Edit: note that zoom has some equally-baffling and irritating design choices, but at least it performs well and doesn't try to do nearly as much, so the list of things I hate about it stays small. It's also damning that the list of things I hate about it hasn't changed in the three years I've been using it heavily, but at this point I'm grudgingly comfortable with its "quirks."