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[CHANNELS] Post Order - Use Top Down (Recent -Old)
Request Display post top-down using recent - old (cfr Outlook) Pin to the top (cfr Outlook) Context: Currently the ordering of the posts is bottom up, with the most recent post at the bottom. ...
That's actually the experience of the new "reimagined" channels, which are slowly rolling out across the various deployment rings. You can read more about it here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/enhance-collaboration-with-microsoft-teams-chat-and-channels/ba-p/3644534
I actually do not understand how one could come to the conslusion that having completely different behavior between dirct/group chat and channels could be a good idea. It confuses people and reduces acceptance of the tool. Looking to the bottom bottom in one conversation and then to the top in the next one reduces productivity.
Also having the newest thread in a channel at the top but then the newest post to that thread at the bottom makes it even more unintuitive to ingest new information.
It would not be so bad if people were left with a choice (either channel owner defines it per channel or the user could set his preferred mode in the client), but forcing this new design on all users is really really awful. I already can see our users using more and more group chats instead of Teams channels in the future.
MS Teams Channels are NOT social media, they still are a messaging/chat tool and thus should behave like what people expect.
Also having the newest thread in a channel at the top but then the newest post to that thread at the bottom makes it even more unintuitive to ingest new information.
It would not be so bad if people were left with a choice (either channel owner defines it per channel or the user could set his preferred mode in the client), but forcing this new design on all users is really really awful. I already can see our users using more and more group chats instead of Teams channels in the future.
MS Teams Channels are NOT social media, they still are a messaging/chat tool and thus should behave like what people expect.