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Suggestions for improvements (or why I hate using Teams)
There's a number of issues that makes using MS Teams daily such a pain
- I can't just copy paste a whole message because Teams adds in additional text like the timestamp and original poster. There's never been a single instance where this feature was useful, and I've had many times where I forgot to surgically select the portions of text/code that I want to paste correctly, instead of just double click --> ctrl-c. This feature should be disabled by default. 
- Scrolling up in anther chat platform (ie. Discord) is nearly instantaneous. Scrolling up in Teams is frustratingly slow and previous messages gets loaded chunks at a time. It's especially frustrating that Teams uses 3x as much ram as Discord. What good is all that memory if you're not even using it to cache recent messages? 
- There's a bug where Teams wouldn't let me scroll up anymore in a chat past a certain point. I hit a 'ceiling' that I can't scroll up past, and I have to scroll down to scroll back up. 
- There's a bug where arrow keys randomly stop working in the chat box
- If I search for a really old message and click 'go to message' it shows the message on its own without any context. I can't see what was before or after that message, ONLY the message itself. Is this a bug? This feature works perfectly on Slack Discord, and Mattermost. This one is especially frustrating since often times I'm searching for a message in order to get to the code snippets before or after it 
- If I disable notifications for Teams on one computer, it also disables the notifications the other instance of teams running on another computer. Why? I'm running two different instances for a reason! Notification settings should not be synced across devices.
- What happened to the ok emoji?
I've petitioned the company head to make the transition to Slack instead.
2 Replies
- AngryBadgerCopper ContributorJust make it work as it supposed to work. I need prescription meds after a day of usage, One moment it behaves as expected and several hours later it behaves is a totally different way. I need to get my job done and a reliable tool is a must. 😡😡😡
- AnqB0VVRJMzsO6zVIron ContributorI have been through all you put here 
 and all you said it's either bug or defect, which means won't better soon
 as a chat&call tool, I will never use it
 as a platform, I have to ask is there any better choice?
 I'm frustrated but I didn't find the way out