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How to STOP Teams from auto-deciding for me what I should see and not see
I don't know about others but for me its very annoying when TEAMS decides for me what I need to see and don't need to see vs letting me make that decision myself. YES I can SHOW a channel that has been hidden but if I don't know it was hidden then I don't know it needs to be shown. I was looking for information that I knew would be in a file somewhere but I didn't know the file name and b/c TEMAS auto hid the channel it was in for me I couldn't locate it via manual search. I had to go ask someone else who had worked with the info and when they ds showed me the file I went back to my desk and of course I still couldn't locate it b/c I didn't realize it was in a hidden channel. I could search by the file name but I didn't make note of the file name b/c I thought that knowing in what Channel it was that I could then manually find it myself.
Time was wasted all b/c MS Teams made choices for me without asking or checking with me first. Is there a way to shut this down so in the future TEAMS does not hide something soi that only I can hide it if I want to hide it?
If any MS Engineer is reading this,. PLEASE stop making choices for us users! Its great that we can if we so choose, hide or show something but stop deciding for us what we should see and not see! It was annoying when you started this hide & seek game with the functions in the MS Applications and it's no more fun now that your doing it in TEAMS. Some users like to decide for themselves vs letting software choose for them.
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I couldn't agree more. I have many dozens, if not hundreds, of channels that I should be monitoring on a regular basis. It has been an absolute disaster for me. I've basically given up on Teams at this point since it's no longer a productivity tool that can be relied upon. I've pretty much given up on using any software tools to maintain productivity because they keep changing. As soon as you figure out how to use the thing and get your team to rely on it, it completely changes. This topic doesn't even get into all the other changes they've been making that have broekn productivity norms.
These companies think they can use some sort of algorithm to do the thinking for us but it more often robs us of predicability and productivity. I spend more time searching for things when we should be able to simply know were things are to find them.
Instead of walking into a room, opening the A-D filing cabinet and then the 'Brooks, Mel - Drawings' folder, I have to figure out what floor the filing room is on, then walk into it and ask to give me the Brooks drawings and hope it knows which Brooks I mean and which drawings I need. It takes SO. MUCH. LONGER.
Actually, this is the exact same issue I'm having on the new MacOS update. They got rid of the LaunchPad app which allowed you to organize app icons in a manner that made sense to your workflow and replaced it with a less efficient search command.
They're all trying to hide the software and do this thinking for us and it's making it harder to use computers - because they're trying to move in a direction where the computer no longer exists and an ether-intelligence does all the thinking for us. See: Microsoft Copilot / office.com
