“You said you needed it compatible with Teams.”
Okay, hear me out: what if you click on a contact in your contact list and start typing a message, but instead of writing in the message field, it instead focused a random contact in your contract list whose name starts with the last letter you typed. Anyone? People love this feature, right?
I’m not too convinced FLOSS devs are mentally flexible enough to implement all of the glory of MS Teams.
I love the feature where I paste something into an email, and then it stops me typing by popping up a useless menu.
My second favourite is the one where you’re typing, and suddenly it starts treating all your keypresses as shortcuts and deleting things. I love that.
And don’t even get me started on Outlook search. I can no longer find any emails, even by typing in the things that were on them.
But hey, at least an admin can fuck it all up from one place!
The problem with windows and by extension microslop software is that the UI was made when computers were 1,000,000 times slower than they are today.
What? Teams updates its UI so often it feels like with every update they move buttons around just to fuck with the user. Even outlook has been updated to a somehow even shittier UI. If I had a choice I’d choose the UI from the 1000000 times slower era because at least it was functional.
I was mostly referring to the semantics of the windowing, not application layout.
As a senior software person, I can tell you that that is absolutely not the problem.
It’s never refactoring, pushing useless crap and vibe coding. On the top of my head.
What about freezing and locking the whole system ~45 minutes in a meeting every time? Or hear me out, lets display the content of the window in the centered rectangle that takes 15-20% of window and it can be resized down but not up?
For me: When using the teams app on my work laptop, something prevents the clock multiplier in my processor from working correctly - it’s locked to 600-800MHz (according to the performance tab in the Taskmanager) and everything is very sluggish. As soon as I exit the meeting, it will jump back up to several GHz as it should…
meh, as I understand the alt is an open source project so it maybe terrible but it’s a terrible that can be pressured to fix
More likely an amalgamation of several open source projects glued together with a bunch of proprietary stuff for Cisco hardware, desk phones, some weird PBX system and so on…
So they’re replicating Teams even more closely than we suspected?
We are and I’m hating every minute of it.
Hey kids, try this neat trick:
during a Teams meeting, mention a very esoteric product 2-3X .
Within a week, someone will email you an offer to buy that product.
Unfortunately, LinkedIn patched that infinite money glitch in the latest Business Douchecanoe firmware update.
Which project is it?
I believe the correct term is “shite”, to be spoken with a thick accent lol
The Commission introduced Element Pro
Ufff. Matrix/Element is rough. I tried moving my friends there and everyone bailed on me.
Self-host Fluxer instead, EU!
Rough in which way?
fluxer
I mean there is ‘rough’ and there is stutters while scrolling the main page like it stutters on the site that you linked.
Doesn’t sound like a technical issue, but a social one
Yeah Matrix is cursed. They have python main server and a graveyard of alrernate implementations. XMPP is rock solid
Synapse server is not bad for Matrix, the stack for voice, video, and auth is simple. How does XMPP work?
There are two main implementations. I use someone else’s server, but really like responsiveness. Matrix is lagging (heh) in this regard.
Does the protocol use a single server application and single client application? Is it Federated and I can use my home sever account on all instances?
XMPP is federated, you can join public chatrooms: https://search.jabber.network/channels/1
Honestly surprised they didn’t go with NextCloud Talk.
That reminds me - how are XMPP servers going? They seem to be a much more lightweight alternative, and with the right XEPs enabled they should match the overall functionality of Teams, right?
Yeah, Movim even runs on the browser so you don’t need to install a client app
