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Microsoft's Teams app services were down for thousands of users on Friday, according to the outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

Work chat gone quiet? Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users - National | Globalnews.ca::Microsoft’s Teams app services were down for thousands of users on Friday, according to the outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

      • GingeyBook@lemm.eeEnglish
        101·
        9 months ago

        Bro my fiancees workplace actively uses Gchat, Teams, Zoom, and WebEx for communication

        Drives me absolutely insane

        • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          9 months ago

          So you’re having to monitor four different sources of communication?

          Just gouge your eyes out with a mellon baller at that point.

          • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
            41·
            9 months ago

            Why? if it works for them, why does it matter?

            The whole point of IT is to support the other departments, not hamstring them to make our jobs easier. If they want to use that stuff, so be it.

      • thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.caEnglish
        6·
        9 months ago

        I dislike slack more than anyone I know. Awful tool that’s nearly impossible to use well at any scale.

        But if you’re seeing gendered pronoun slack bot text (ex. one about avoiding using “guys”) those were added by someone at your org.

        I was at such an org.

        I was at another where slackbot and the ability for anyone to modify it was completely disabled.

        Didn’t make slack any better though.

      • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Imagine leadership that gives a shit about what their employees choose to use and support them in that.

    • AlecSadler@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      I have or have had jobs that use Slack, Teams, WebEx, Discord, RingCentral, and GChat…of all of them, Slack is superior in my opinion.

      To me:

      RingCental: Just…no.

      WebEx: Garbage on all fronts.

      Teams: Meetings sometimes bug out audio-wise for random participants and have to be restarted. I’ve periodically been disconnected or left a meeting and yet still get audio from it. Keyboard shortcuts are crappy. There is no Mark all as read. I can’t change orgs without using a mouse.

      GChat: Down there with WebEx except even shittier keyboard support and no Mark all as read. Just had a UI update and they made it worse. I hate this platform for professional use with every fiber of my being, more than Teams, about the same as WebEx. I’d rather use Lync or Skype, that’s how bad it is.

      Discord: Don’t know why in hell any professional organization uses this, but they do. It sucks for similar reasons mentioned above in some cases. Multi-org support sucks. Alt + F4 in windows terminates it instead of doing the same thing clicking the X does and minimizing it to the tray. Notifications have issues all the time.

      Slack: Multi-org support, great. Keyboard shortcuts tick ~95%, I rarely ever have to use a mouse. Huddles were pretty rough at first but at least lately I don’t seem to be having any issues. Notifications periodically (maybe 2-3 incidents a year?) have issues, but are typically pretty solid.