I still passed, but just barely. I don’t care about grades anymore, but since it was design-related, it still hurts my ego and ruins my day.
I still passed, but just barely. I don’t care about grades anymore, but since it was design-related, it still hurts my ego and ruins my day.
I also loved that version where too many chat popups could actually obstruct the chat, to the point when you couldn't even respond or see some messages in there, cause half of the chat was behind chat popups that appeared before you opened the chatbox - peek user experience. 👌
The chat wastes sooooooooooo much screen space, unbelievable. You cannot theme it to make this more efficient. The feature request (in fact several) exist for multiple years.
Notifications don't work reliably at all. Often I get the notification a few hours or even days later, sometimes never. To make it really funny those fuckheads decided to also show notifications about new messages even though I've read them already and – buckle yourself – replied to them. No, messages weren't edited, that feature was turned off company-wide up until recently for legal reasons or I don't know. It's praiseworthy, however, sometimes they're instant.
The Linux version hangs behind several months of development in general. Break-out rooms still don't work. You just remain in the original conference. At most four people can be seen at the same time in a call. Backgrounds cannot be changed or blurred (that's why I built my own wooden background for real). All that functionality was added to the Windows and macOS versions in summer or maybe even earlier last year.
In calls esp. with video the CPU gets burned. That's great fun in summer, I tell you that. But hey, in contrast to Skype I can actually share my screen. This is the future!
If you wish to connect from an incognito browser, you still get an extra 2FA verification every time, just to be sure that you don't have it too easy.
In my opinion the lack of theming is also something maintained to please the management, as for some reason they're always against any kind of personalization of anything, to the point where you're not even allowed to have a profile picture in anything Microsoft related and if you try to set one, you'll get an error message telling you to ask management for approval, which they don't give. Thought I've seen a few people who somehow got one, so I guess if you take a high ranking manager to the showers where the camera doesn't shine and the soap be kinda slippery, it can still be "negotiated".
Haha, profile pictures is another thing, that's not supported on Linux. But actually that's quite good. I don't want to have my face there anyways. So even if it was implemented, I wouldn't use it.
Personalization works super great in Teams. I mean you can decide which of the tabs are visible!@1! Only to get the orange alert box in your face that after some random upgrade the system administrator had reset the tabs for you, you're welcome. Fuck you! Nowadays, I don't even bother hiding all the bloody shit anymore. I let it just keep growing. I resigned. If they want me to be unproductive with a crap UI, so be it.
Oh, one other thing I completely forgot in my previous rant. You can pin contacts, so they're always visible. The upper limit of pinnable chats is? What do you think? How many would you need? Yeah, 15 should be enough for these idiots out there! You're a bloody programmer, especially you geek don't want to talk to anybody anyways, do you!? What a stupid joke. Any kindergarden programmer would have gotten this right.
Another observation is that they mess up upgrades regularly. At least once a month the meeting calls won't work. You cannot join the meeting. You're always getting some kind of connection error "sorry, we couldn't connect you to the call". Obviously, the Retry button doesn't work either.