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We recently switched from Slack to Teams. IMO, it's the worst software that MS produced particularly when there is a baseline such as Slack that they can get inspired from.

- All the channels are named General for every Team I am part of and it shows several "General" channels in my pinned list. Unless someone mentions me, I simply miss those conversations in other channels.

- Search is pretty bad and it never works. Slack is pretty powerful and conversations in Slack are like KB.

- If a screenshot is shared, sometimes it takes forever to show when I click it.

- Every time I have to click 'New conversation' to post in a channel.

- I use a 34" monitor, when I expand Teams app - it hardly uses 50% of the real estate. Content is centered and lot of whitespace (or blackspace in dark mode :p)

I can go on and on.

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Zoom in Linux. Holy smoldering dumpster fire. It's like schizophrenia manifest as software. Why can't it just stay out on a single virtual desktop?

And basically anything coming out of Atlassian. How do you actually make software that's so indelible, while still being overly complex and sloooow?

We all have software we hate, I'm sure. We must, right? Everyone uses slack

> And basically anything coming out of Atlassian. How do you actually make software that's so indelible, while still being overly complex and sloooow?

Simple: you make it super customizable with options, configuration, and plugins so managers and administrators can implement and mandate any sort of workflow they can dream up, no matter how nonsensical, counterproductive, or downright user-hostile it may be. Then you do the same for reporting and dashboards on whatever misleading metrics they want.

After that, the PTBs will cling to the illusion of control it gives them to their dying breath.

Work in tech, never used slack or teams

I preferred Teams over Slack. Teams has a much better Giphy integration. Since distributing memes is the most productive thing you can do with such a chat platform, Giphy is a must.

Ironically my layout complaint is the polar opposite of yours, which is that I have smaller monitors and the minimum window size is really large, and for what? I would like to pop out a couple channels and have them always on-screen but they take up too much room.

The current minimum width is 2x my smartphone which is kinda weird considering the app runs fine on the phone itself.

I don't think you are disagreeing, necessarily. You can't make Teams windows small, but they also don't make good use of whatever space you give them.

Discord does the `general` thing too, and it's annoying AF.

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