Comment by dijit
17 hours ago
Not a fan of slack.
Teams is unjustifiably worse than slack.
The only way you can hold this opinion is if you haven't been forced to use Teams.
17 hours ago
Not a fan of slack.
Teams is unjustifiably worse than slack.
The only way you can hold this opinion is if you haven't been forced to use Teams.
At work for some reason we use both Slack and Teams because part of the company likes one and another part of the company likes the other, so i actually get to have simultaneous experience with both.
I use both on Linux via Firefox (their tabs are pinned side by side). I prefer Teams because:
a) Slack constantly forgets my credentials and i need to go through a whole dance of logging in, proving i'm human by clicking bicycles, having it email some code. Pretty much every day.
b) Slack, for some reason i cannot fathom, randomly switches me to "do not disturb" mode (or something like that) even though i'm right there. Not even away: it switches to a mode where i do not receive notifications when someone messages me. Fortunately it still does the beepy sound and i do keep the tabs visible on my screen all the time so i actually do notice messages, but i had at least a couple of questions from others why i am in that mode.
c) Slack does not support audio calls. Not sure why, but it doesn't work in Firefox. Teams does work just fine. Fortunately all work meetings are done via Teams and all people on Stack are also on Teams so if someone wants an audio call we use Teams, but still, a negative for Slack.
The only issue i had with Teams is that its text input can get confused when typing `backticks` and it seems to dislike using emojis at any place except the end of the text. Also Slack has some (old) meme emojis, though if that is a good thing or not depends on your taste :-P.
Oh interesting, I could say all of these same points for Teams.
Being signed out on Teams leads to a really slim banner at the top (of the already messy UI) that tells me to sign in again, the strip is even grey... the only reason I notice I am signed out at all is because I have notifications on my phone that aren't reflected in the Teams UI. This is a consequence of my IT department having short sessions, but the fact that this is how Teams displays it- is a fragrantly terrible UX.
The more annoying one is when my phone is signed out I just stop getting push notifications. There's no indication that I need to sign in again or anything. I think Slack would have the same issue with short session times to be honest, unless they send you a push notification every time your credentials expire which is also frustrating.
Teams working in Firefox is relatively recent, afaik it still doesn't work in Safari. I think I specifically had to install Chrome a few times to join job interviews that were conducted on Teams as Firefox definitely was not supported a year ago.
> c) Slack does not support audio calls. Not sure why, but it doesn't work in Firefox. Teams does work just fine. Fortunately all work meetings are done via Teams and all people on Stack are also on Teams so if someone wants an audio call we use Teams, but still, a negative for Slack.
My slack experience is old so I don't remember but on msteams there aren't audio calls at all. All calls all video calls, the only difference the audio/video call buttons do is wether your webcam will be activated or not from the beginning but you can still disable it before joining on a video call and you can always activating your camera even if you pressed the telephone looking button to start the call.