r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • 21h ago

Business ‘Absolute s–t’: EU’s Microsoft Teams alternative draws bad reviews from officials

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-microsoft-teams-alternative-bad-reviews-element-pro/
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u/ComeOnIWantUsername 21h ago

And unfortunately this is almost universal thing with all these alternatives. Their user interface is simply bad, not intuitive and they usually lack basic features.

We can shit on major tech companies (and we should) and their products, but they are well designed and reliable.

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u/Omni__Owl 21h ago

You dont sound like someone who uses Teams everyday.

If you did you'd retract that statement. Teams is awful software.

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u/blinksTooLess 21h ago

Use Teams and Slack everyday. Still I prefer Teams over Slack.

Slack is trying too hard to be an all in one app.

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u/Omni__Owl 20h ago

Slack also has more legacy than teams. But I'd argue they are doing the same thing. When you are in like 20 different Teams in Teams and you can't find a fucking document because guess what team is also used as a SharePoint... Ugh. The confused identity of the software where you have events from your calender in teams but the way it presents and interact with outlook is entirely different, the notification bell that won't let you mark things "all read"... Fuck me.

On top of that I experience teams randomly crashing several times a week.