Re:I Fucking Hate Jira (2022)
by mschuster91 on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @05:10PM
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> Is Teams as horrible as people say, or do they just hate it because it's what they happen to use for video meetings at work?
So, let's sum up my personal gripes (on a Mac):
1. Teams keeps locking up the dGPU for whatever reason randomly after calls, draining the battery and grilling my legs until I figure out that Teams has gone nuts again.
2. Since the macOS Sonoma update and the switch to the "new" Teams client, every time a call comes in, the ringtone glitches out (and I'm not alone in that)
3. There are three different ways of chatting with other people: Meeting chats and direct/group messages (these are summed up under the "chat" tab) and "teams" with "channels". The latter don't produce instant notifications when someone writes there, I guess because Microsoft doesn't want to deal with "I get an instant notification every time someone posts a kitten photo in the off-topic channel" complaints.
4. There is only one uploaded-files repository which means if you have a "screenshot.jpg" sent to someone, and you try to send a different file with the same name in a different chat, it will say "you already uploaded screenshot.jpg, do you want to replace this?". This is fucking bad UX, likely caused by Teams using OneDrive under the hood to share files.
5. The search is slooooow as molasses and damn useless. You have zero chance of ever finding something again, the larger the org the worse the pain.
6. No window/functionality remembers your context when you switch away. Say you click on a notification from a chat because a colleague needs an urgent answer, while you're scrolling in a team thread... you go back, and your scroll position is lost.
So, let's sum up my personal gripes (on a Mac):
1. Teams keeps locking up the dGPU for whatever reason randomly after calls, draining the battery and grilling my legs until I figure out that Teams has gone nuts again.
2. Since the macOS Sonoma update and the switch to the "new" Teams client, every time a call comes in, the ringtone glitches out (and I'm not alone in that)
3. There are three different ways of chatting with other people: Meeting chats and direct/group messages (these are summed up under the "chat" tab) and "teams" with "channels". The latter don't produce instant notifications when someone writes there, I guess because Microsoft doesn't want to deal with "I get an instant notification every time someone posts a kitten photo in the off-topic channel" complaints.
4. There is only one uploaded-files repository which means if you have a "screenshot.jpg" sent to someone, and you try to send a different file with the same name in a different chat, it will say "you already uploaded screenshot.jpg, do you want to replace this?". This is fucking bad UX, likely caused by Teams using OneDrive under the hood to share files.
5. The search is slooooow as molasses and damn useless. You have zero chance of ever finding something again, the larger the org the worse the pain.
6. No window/functionality remembers your context when you switch away. Say you click on a notification from a chat because a colleague needs an urgent answer, while you're scrolling in a team thread... you go back, and your scroll position is lost.