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Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash
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This is almost certainly a work-related thing. Most people, even on Windows, hate Teams and don't use it unless they have to for their job.
I used to think "Teams can't be that bad" and then I had to use it for work. It's astonishingly bad. I'm not sure if it's just how they use it at this place, but it's bad.
Everything is a chat. There's no channels. So nothing is discoverable, and if you sort of remember a conversation you have to see if it was in the standup chat, in the planning chat, in a ad hoc chat...
There's no threads. So if you have a chat for say release-123, and someone says "Feature 1 has a bug" and someone else says "Feature-2 has a bug", you can't isolate them in separate threads. It's all flat so they smash into each other.
Actually Teams has both channels and threads, it's just that they are so cumbersome and clunky and unintuitive that no one seems to use them or even realize they are there. Hence the reason there's like a dozen similar group chats all with a different subset of people in them. Oh, and some of these group chats were originally created from some meeting months ago so they are in a completely different list than the other group chats for some reason.
Personally, I find Teams to be a huge productivity killer. It's constantly interrupting my work and demanding my attention because there's some conversation going on in one of the group chats that's completely irrelevant to me, but I can't just put damn thing on mute because while the signal to noise ratio is low, I can't just completely ignore the signal part either. If I could only convince people that disseminating important information only through Teams in some random chat room is just a bad idea, but alas I have seemed to have lost that battle.
Notably, slack doesn't have this problem. Slack pretty consistently behaved exactly as I expected. You have channels organized by topic. You have private messages that are private. You can have group DMs but don't do that. I guess a problem is some people are kind of stupid and don't see why many permutations of non-discoverable chats are a bad idea. My old CEO, who I would not say is a universally smart man, would always create group DMs and I had to tell him if he wants this chat to be canonical put it in the relevant public channel. "We value transparency" he'd say at meetings, and then bork that up.
I have a couple friends who have only ever used Teams and I don't think they realize just how bad it is.
It's kind of infuriating to me that Microsoft can consistently deliver bad products and not die. If a startup released Teams, no one would use it and they would rightfully fail.
It's a good example of why no one ever tried to build an 'everything' app. It just doesn't work, and there are so many terrible design decisions, like having multiple places you have to go to manage settings, where most apps have only one.
It's all centered around meetings it seems like. But my life is thankfully not.
Every time I have to start a new chat it takes me 10 minutes to figure out how to do it. The Teams UI is positively hostile.