Congratulations to everyone whose company bought European and isn’t (directly) affected by the current Microsoft service problems 🎉
Congratulations to everyone whose company bought European and isn’t (directly) affected by the current Microsoft service problems 🎉
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.