Congratulations to everyone whose company bought European and isn’t (directly) affected by the current Microsoft service problems 🎉
There’s an outage?
I don’t use any Microsoft stuff, so I didn’t notice. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
There’s a catch. Companies that have made a switch are still in the minority. We can enjoy the working systems and yet there will be no communication with quite many organisations.
The most annoying part is, that we get looked at, as if we’re nuts.
Using OpenTalk, mailbox.org, BigBlueButton, … so many good alternatives, but to co-workes, they don’t feel right, so they must be cheap and useless. I had so many discussions, which alle came down to " but everyone uses it".
Thanks for highlighting this. I also hear similar arguments. Something like “if nobody is using these alternatives, then why make a switch from the secure and blah bleh blah big tech giant?”. It’s annyoing for sure. Also, some could migrate to Proton, some to mailbox etc. The diversity would be potentially beneficial.
Yea. The standard and compatibility should lay in common formats and protocols, not in choosing the same provider.
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We should also send our best wishes to anyone that was not yet freed from Microsoft, or from US service providers.
Today could be a good opportunity to make the switch to some EU-based service provider.
Or at least a good time to raise the issue (again)
That would be our current work studio and our future record/alt store!! :3
We’re currently working on building a pc from recycled tech and running off of Cachy + (we’re debating gnome or KDE atm) and our current WIP server is an old laptop :P
Hopefully we can slowly upgrade things once we have income to but outright and keep tech and stock from the EU.
I SO wish there was a good alternative for Teams. Element Pro is… decent, but only if you’re using it for nothing but talking in a group.
I sometimes have to restart Teams because messages stop being delivered to me… It’s not reliable even for the most basic thing, which is really an achievement for a multi-billion dollar company.
Man, even smoke signals are a better alternative to Teams. One of our clients uses it and I need to open it once a week for a meeting. Every time I end up wrestling with it for 5 minutes to join,
The most hilarious thing is that when you open it in your browser and your login session has expired, it doesn’t let you do anything for a minute before it shows you the tiny “you need to log in again” banner. When you click it, there’s a 50% chance of it actually redirecting to login or doing nothing.
“My people” love to store files in teams.
Primarily you have to download the App and access files, which are hidden behind 6000 tabs. I managed to sync the folder to my PC, but boy… am I pissed with this work"flow" to simply access shared files.
Editor for those files often only opens a webview…
I feel your pain. And a lot of people think this is amazing and use it as an example why Teams is so amazing.
I’ve never used it myself, but what about mattermost? It’s supposed to be the selfhostable open source Slack / MS Teams alternative
Get ready for the screeching about 90 products that need integration and still don’t actually work as well together😂
What have you tried? What worked, what didn’t?
Is it due to other people’s rejecting the solution?
Honestly, I work as a consultant, and I’m stuck with whatever the people paying for my time use. Which is something like 80% Microsoft, and 20% google/zoom/slack.
Personally, I use and like Element because all I need is “Look at more than two people and talk to them online”. There are quite a few companies I work with that really rely on co-working on documents in Teams, which just isn’t in Element.
I feel you.
There are plenty of better choices but honestly: if I would start a new business (had a missed opportunity) I would go with matrix, jitsi/OpenTalk and owncloud/nextcloud and nudge contractors to comply, wherever possible 😈 I would expect them to revolt, as I ignore “business standards”… This would be my part to tell them, that standards aren’t a given.
I think the only thing worse than teams is Google chat… and that’s only because I’m using Google chat at my current job. Else it would be teams in a landslide.
God, yes. Working with Google chat has me silently thinking I never should have taken Teams for granted.
Proton Meet is nice. It’s like Teams, but less complicated. Also, more private.
