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by stagger87 872 days ago
It's always interesting to hear others experiences. I've used Teams for 4+ years now with zero issues until this morning. I'm only mad in that I tried troubleshooting my PC and network connection for far too long before seeing this thread.
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I had a new one this week

every time someone tries screensharing to me the call hangs up and I get "Uh oh, something went wrong!"

yeah something went wrong, someone decided to pay for Teams

pretty sure you're wrong, I think Teams gets bundled, no one actually pays for it ;)
Yeah, it's free. Somehow that's competitive, even though it forced Slack to sell up, but iPhone having a 20% global smartphone market share is anticompetitive.
My employer certainly pays for it. It's bundled with O365, but they pay for O365 and so they also pay for Teams.
Yeah it’s odd how that works, I have a similar experience with the appletv YouTube app people complain about and it led me to wondering how it ends up working out that way.

That being said in regards to teams, it might literally be the worst software I’ve ever used. It’s a major thorn in the productivity not just of myself, but everyone including the entire org of my client who mandates it. Like not a day goes by it doesn’t impact one or more meetings. It’s bizzare how tolerated it is when everyone involved has issues that leads to them disliking it.

I haven’t really had problems with it not working. Not more than other chat programs.

My main gripe is the “teams” chats having aggressively terrible UI in ways that make my work-life worse. Most of my complaints would go away if they let me make a teams chat that was a normal chat room.

Logging into two Teams accounts is always hilarious.
Even more hilarious when your account on one tenant gets added as a third party on another tenant that you actually have a different account on...
Same here, hp switched to Teams a while back and it's been working great until today. Also think we should have gotten an alert earlier. I switched to my phone app, that kept working for a bit but now it's total blackout.
Some sort of banner at the top of Teams indicating there is ongoing issues would be nice.
Yeah the biggest issue I've had with Teams is that I don't like the icon on the 'new' app. I guess we have enough glitches with starting screen shares (it's not frequent or a cause of extended disruptions, but it shouldn't ever happen either).
I've been using it for about as long as it has existed and it's never been anything but trouble. Every step of the way. It's an absolute abomination.