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Teams pretends it's an app that can do a lot of things at once but for literally all of the things it pretends to be good at it is the worst possible choice.
Such as?
I use teams all the time at work and it seems to do what it needs to do well. Calls/meetings work wel, chatting works well. It's not perfect, but more than good enough.
Sounds like it's working great for you- I wish it would for me too! I'm not OP but some of my main gripes are:
Most calls have, for at least one caller, a wierd lag time where the call doesn't start for 10 seconds or so
Quite frequently (I'd guess 5 calls a month) a call will be disrupted by teams failing completely for someone on the call (camera not working, not being able to join etc)
It uses a lot of RAM even when idling
It has hundreds of features, like "together mode" that bloat the software without adding to its core functionality
The UI is a confused mess, and the conceptual split between teams, channels and chats is messyat best.
On top of that, I don't find teams makes me more productive, if feels like a constant distraction that modern corporate culture requires me to have, even though its a net drop in productivity. This last point is more on instant messengers as a whole, but it doesn't place me in a very charitable or forgiving mindset for interpretting Team' multitude of flaws.
We don’t get that lag but we do frequently get it when the camera doesn’t work for somebody.
I really can’t understand the separation between teams, channels and chats. We almost never use anything other than group chats.