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Comment by jayknight | Hacker News Reader

Teams chat better than slack? Are we using the same Teams? Because it doesn't come close in my opinion, and the opinion of basically everyone I work with.

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I had the same reaction. I believe that it's the first time that I see someone that prefers Teams. There's no comparison for me. I've been using Slack for the last year after using Teams for years and the difference is staggering knowing how big Microsoft is. Using Teams was a daily battle.

Chat? No. But the strength of Teams is that it lets you do everything else you want in an integrated communications app - voice, video calls, calendars, viewing (and editing) documents, etc. At a reasonable price that Microsoft isn't going to crank to the moon.

So instead of doing one thing well, it does a bunch of things poorly?

What are your experienced differences?

Frankly most of these tools have been at feature parity since before Covid.

I used Teams just before Covid (last job I had used it). For one messages didn't arrive in the same order for everyone, so chat histories often didn't make sense, with replies appearing above the messages they were replying to. The other thing I recall was slow loading time. Slack is _snappy_, moving from channel to channel is very fast, as if nothing ever needs to load (it does, it just cleverly preloads everything except images it seems like). The interface was just far less intuitive as well.

At the end of the day, just about every team that I worked with had a WhatsApp group that they actually used to chat in. Having a bad product as your internal chat is how you get shadow IT like WhatsApp where people are discussing your proprietary information on a third party service.

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