[salmonlogs]

Microsoft Teams is one of the worst desktop apps I've used - on Windows and Mac.

You can see how it's built on layers and layers of badly designed compatibility layers and bad engineering decisions.

Massive CPU hog, unacceptable side effects (disconnecting Bluetooth devices), super laggy UI and overall poor UX are the headlines.

I decided to invest in an alternative VC platform for my business because it was that bad.

[tibbydudeza]

No surprise it came about from an internal hackathon at Microsoft.

Just take some Sharepoint and Exchange sprinkle over some Electron dust and you have a new platform.

Yes it is a pile of dung like Lotus Notes but fortunately for them Covid came out at the same time and customers needed a WFH solution that would not cost $$$.

[keneda7]

I run into so many issues when trying to do video calls and screen share. Random disconnects, random program crashes, extreme latency, distorted video, ect. It is really frustrating when your company uses it for an internal chat/meeting solution.

[salmonlogs]

I think the chat function is probably even worse than the video calling.

It just feels brittle and flaky and awkward. Even small things like trying to insert an image often won't work because the format is unsupported so you have to screenshot the image first.

In 2022 there is no excuse to not support all the common image formats, it's not hard

[akira2501]

My teams also likes to go to "sleep" on my machine and just ignore incoming messages. I am embarrassed to get the email from exchange that I've missed a message in teams.

This is on a machine that is dedicated to teams and has nothing else running on it. It's got it's own monitor, is always in the foreground, and is something I can always see from my desk.

That, and my calendar no longer shows the time bar. So, I can see all my meetings, but I have to guess based on distance where in the day it's actually scheduled.

It's most definitely anti-productive to be using this.

[nikau]

I personally like how you go to make a call to someone, and it appears to connect and after 10 second of silence it throws an error and you have to call again.

Sure is a step forward from the 90s with digital desk phones where you just pressed a speed dial and connected instantly.

[ndespres]

Mine goes to "sleep" too. I've got the latest client version running on MacOS. If I receive any messages while my computer is idle, even for a minute, they don't refresh on screen or alert in any way. They wont' appear until I jiggle the cursor a bit.

[salmonlogs]

I've had the same. When I was using Teams for many meetings I would restart the desktop app every few hours to try and prevent these kind of issues. Not unusual for me to restart it after every meeting.

[tiffanyh]

I've been on both Intel and M1 MacBook Pro's for years - I've never experienced those kind of problems. I'm a heavy user of Teams with (unfortunately) 5 hours of video calls daily.

[mushufasa]

> VC platform

I've always associated VC with venture capital... VC as videoconferencing threw me for a loop real quick

[salmonlogs]

I was working for a Venture Capital firm at the time, and it was during COVID when everything was remote so it was a VC platform for our VC to do VCing!

[worble]

I think VC is discord lingo for "Voice Channel"