Compact mode
I really like Teams. I do. But the current chat layout is not suited for professional chats. It's way to space consuming. It looks like something imported from MSN with smiley's that take half of the screen. I would say that Slack have nailed it because they focused on the ability keeping a tight window with lots of chat text visible. In Teams the window is full and starts scrolling after like 10 sentences.
Thomas Nimstad
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We are working on a design with more density in mind. Until this design is solidified we are putting this item back to Under Review.
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Anonymous
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Here's an idea, finish the software before you put it out, make it fully functional and stop putting out betas and calling them Evolving software. Teams is not functional it's not complete so why push it out and look so bad. In all the forums there are no kind comments about this app, always some basic functionality that's missing. You'd expect that from a beta but not a release version
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Lee
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Not sure if this is part of this or separate but my biggest issue with the UI is how you'll click Teams, pick a Channel, click Files tab, navigate through folders, open an Excel, and then someone sends you a message which shows as a notification, but to reply you have to CLOSE the Excel! If you click the stupid notification it takes you to their chat and there's no back button or any way to go back to the Excel without navigating it again. It's so stupid that my users have literally had to create their own process of "always remember to press open in browser when opening a file in Teams" or for most of them they have just given up (myself included) and just go to SharePoint on the web and call it a day.
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Murad Khan
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Waste of space. Need to be able to compact Contact Groups and have it persist. Just like Skype
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Will
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I don't think this is an issue. I mean it's an issue, but not because teams needs to be more compact, but because teams needs to better explain itself. It took me a while, but I now understand that in a channel, you're not meant to keep starting new conversations, you're essentially meant to thread everything. The REAL issue is that teams doesn't do a good job of explaining this.
That said, yeah you can only have like 5-6 conversations visible at a time, maybe a tiled cards style would work better and solve both problems.
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No Bots Please
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I want to like Teams but the lack of density makes it so difficult.
My company has a ton of different teams and they are not going away. We have teams for technologies (i.e., Data Center, Cloud, Storage, etc., etc.), we have teams for various internal groups, we have teams for individual customers, we have teams for specific projects, etc.
Teams collapses everything almost immediately so I have to click on every **** thing to see anything. It drives me crazy.
Notifications suck. I can’t tell whether or not a channel under a team has been updated without clicking on every **** thing again. I have to constantly unhide channels in order to see them.
Slack does this reasonably well--certainly better than Teams does. In Slack I can click on All Unreads and, well, see everything that is unread. Activity *could* do that, but it doesn’t actually and I can’t figure out why.
Microsoft has never been shy about copying from other companies before--why haven’t you done this with Teams yet?
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Anonymous
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Please rush a compact version of the Teams screen view! I work off a small laptop and Teams is hogging the screen. Nearly half the area! Our company is replacing the Skype for Biz IM with Teams. Teams appears to offer more functions, but you have missed the boat on the IM / chat function. The real worth is in simplicity. Teams seems to be bloated.
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Nikki
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I have several chats to persons pinned, because I need those every day and I'd like to be able to group them and get more overview (like: My Teammembers, Customer, Others..)
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Ross
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Literally don't understand why it's so difficult to just rip off the Slack chatroom UI and call it "compact mode". That's all anyone wants.
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Anonymous
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Moving from Skype to TEAMS, this issue is one of my biggest pet peeves. I just turn it off and follow my people through Outlook Calendars - just like its 1996 all over again. If someone chats me on TEAMS, I answer them through Outlook email - if they want old school, then lets go all in.
TEAMS forces their whole warehouse of crap on a user instead of letting the user streamline it to their best advantage. Mostly at my office, it has become the "worker nanny online spy" to make sure everyone has fingers to the keyboard. We are losing top performers over the micro-managing. Skype was ok, non intrusive and adjustable.
TEAMS is the difference between stopping by the 7-11 for milk and bread, and finding out we can only purchase warehouse sizing - so like leaving the 7-11, we just turn it off before hauling home a 55 gallon drum of milk, and a case of bread. Too bad. It has potential if you just let the end user to scale it.
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Anonymous
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12. December 2016 to 9. December 2020 - any progress in this short time? Layout still sucks and it is not possible to make simple look & feel changes that are standard on the 20 year old SharePoint platform it partly replaces.
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Anonymous
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Looks like this has been a gripe for a LONG LONG TIME. We are transitioning (large company) and the real estate issue is huge (having been using skype for business for years).
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Ulf
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Any progress on this? (For example please make the Teams window fullscreen on a slightly larger monitor than 1k and you'll be amazed how much unused space there is.)
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Wade
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I like how teams works but hate how it looks and takes up to much screen space. If it work like teams and looked like Skype for business it be better for me. When not using all I want to see in=s my contact list. If I need to see a particular saved chat I can open it. I can scroll to get a contacts list but it is very tiny to read and the window stay HUGE?
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Anonymous
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Yeah this is a huge productivity drain for anyone in a role that requires monitoring conversations while trying to get work done (a LOT of roles!)
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Erik Mace
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Attempting to switch a team from Mattermost (Slack-like) to Teams. I really need an option to allow a more flat discussion without the bubbles, but an opportunity to click any reply and have a popup appear to see the full thread? Team is unhappy, so we'll be switching back to Mattermost until we get some sort of option to change the layout.
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Anonymous
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This is basically unusable in the current state. Too much real estate taken up. Unable to see a list of current chat sessions in one screen. Shall I go on...
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Chris
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Please allow us to resize or the school semester will be miserable for all of us using Surface Pros to take notes. You would think Microsoft would want to maximize their 2 in 1 market but this absolutely ridiculous lack of feature is bad. Literally making me regret buying surface pro
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[Deleted User]
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It's been 6 months, any update to just remove some spaces ?
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Anonymous
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Almost unusable - surely cost v benefit makes this a no brainer.
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Anonymous
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Teams - making it impossible to get any real work done, due to the massive amount of wasted screen space.