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by sickmartian
1175 days ago
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My company made us move to this from Slack, killed all online camaraderie that existed in the enterprise to save some bucks. Hope at least now it's usable, would love to be able to enumerate things, use code blocks, etc... it's a bit of a nightmare for day to day work as it was, so I'm glad at least there is some movement, as we are basically captive audience. |
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It's really true that Slack cultivates an online work community in a way that Teams just doesn't, and it's hard to explain to upper management who is much easier persuaded by the argument of "we're a Microsoft shop, so we'll use all the Microsoft stuff we get bundled in our 365 bundle."
The issue is that channels in Teams is so clunky and awkward compared to Slack's. It's not like a chat, it's more like a message board where you start new threads and people reply to them. They're also not easily discoverable nor easy to link people to. And maybe it's an org setting but at least at my work you can't make your own channels, so there won't be, for example, a small channel for people who like bubble tea so they can recommend restaurants or plan an outing to go get some at lunch one day.
The channels are also in a completely separate tab of the app from your chats where you spend most of your time, so people aren't aware when new conversations are happening in channels of interest to them. Unless of course you tag the channel, which gives a noisy ping to everyone in the channel, discouraging people from doing it. This is as opposed to Slack where chats and channels are all along your sidebar, so if someone is looking for help in the general dev chat or something, people in their own chats will silently see that the channel is bold, indicating there's new discussion happening there, and they might curiously click into there and see if they have anything to say.
Also while I won't argue the lack of custom emojis is some kind of productivity hindrance, they're a ton of fun and a great way to have in-jokes, either company-wide or in a small circle that help build camaraderie. At least they added most of the emojis to react a few months ago, as opposed for the 5 or so they had before.