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Now in public preview: Automatic lowering of a user's Raised Hand after speaking
With all due respect to your program manager skills, releasing such annoying feature without ability to turn it off was clearly a bad decision - as a user, your stakeholder, I insist on that. I work at a team of 7 engineers, hate this feature and we're unable to turn it off while our employer insists on using Teams. Please, introduce ability to turn it off in the next update. Takova picovina...
- why do you want to turn it off?
a. because it doesn't work right
b. because everything should be configurable
c. because hand raising might be used for purposes other than the next sentence you speak
d. because the "keep it raised" popup doesn't appear when you think, only stays for half a second, and is generally not sufficient to workaround these issues
Given that this is literally the only feedback people have, how are you surprised still.
a. works fine for our users (no "complaints" here)
b. yeah that would be a honored wish, but as we see everywhere in all tools or also in operating systems like Windows, it is not always the case (taskbar adjustments, Explorer navigationbar, etc.)
c. to be honest, that doesn't count. It is the purpose of the feature. Just cause some people use a drill to put nails into a wall, it doesn't mean it has to work well ;) - There are mostly other apps inside Teams for your adapted purpose, like polls or Q&A
d. no issues yet so far
Surely it would be nice to have it configurable, but we didn't experience any major issues with it yet.
- We raise hands to then take turns talking during standups. If I reply to someone's question on their turn and don't notice the popup my hand is lowered and I have to rejoin at the back of the queue.
MatthiasRodler because sometimes you just say a short sentence to add to the conversation but you want to keep your position in the queue for a more extensive contribution for which you raised your hand.
