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’re currently working on defining a compact mode experience. I will post more details when we have more to share.
~Alex
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Leighton
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Please bump up the urgency of a better GUI. Don't worry about defining the experience for the user (compact mode or otherwise)...just open it up to customization. Very surprised that MS would put out such basic/clunky-looking software with very few user options for improvement. As silly as it might seem, the look and feel of the UI can have a direct impact on adoption rates within an organization when executive staff isn't yet 100% sold.
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Lionel
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Please work faster :) We have just converted from SFB to Teams and the way some of us worked was to have the SFB contacts docked to one side of the screen - it was thin and showed who was available. With Teams, it takes a fair amount of the screen which is precious real estate, especially when it is only used for team awareness.
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Jason
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I opened a ticket in our O365 tenant for this, now that we've reached incident status with us being forced off of Skype for Business Online with no legit replacement for it, from a client IM experience. I am asking them to keep that open until this is resolved. The Level 3 support engineer who has responded has no update on this, either.
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Luis Garcia
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I can't believe we're about to go into 2020 and we are still waiting for this. Unreal.
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Emmanuel Preveraud
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Periodic repost of the CSS workaround https://userstyles.org/users/727497
(I didn't make any improvement on the CSS since last time, in particular the new emoji reactions that replace the thumb-up break some assumptions. Considering that MS didn't make any update either, I don't see why I should work more.)
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Anonymous
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Pleas use same Autoscaling mechanism as in slack. Big Screens and teams is a nightmare. Even if you post long code in a chatwinow.....
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petr
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It even puts unnecessary line breaks in the message to make it longer :-(
The (left - right) alignment is also very impractical on wide monitor. I have to turn my head to read conversation.You have nice UI for hipsters, now please make one for people who want to send text massages to each other, where we can see 50 lines of text instead of 3 smile faces.
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Wilco van Esch
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Considering the value (currently the 4th most popular UserVoice idea) and effort (appears to an outsider as less complex than the items that are currently on the roadmap for Nov/Dec 2019), I think this would be a great time to post another update.
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Anonymous
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Hurry up
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Jason
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A little over 1 yr. and 8 months from now, and they want to pull the plug from us on Skype for Business Online - but have nothing equal to it to which we can move. Even if they released a new comparable compact mode for Teams today - we're getting down to the wire for larger orgs. to properly plan deployment of that, and migration to Teams from SfB Online in time. Everyone open a ticket in your O365 tenant for this, and make sure they keep the tickets open until this issue is resolved. It is, after all, now an issue with them forcing us off of a platform that works for us, and onto one that does not.
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Paul S
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Alex, do we have an ETA for this? I literally added a third monitor in portrait mode just for teams and it's so wasteful. How is this not priority for the Microsoft UI team? It seems to be the same across all new Microsoft Apps - relocate the head of UI/UX at Microsoft to the mail room.
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Joe Hendricks
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This needs to be completed soon - this may be the biggest complaint at our organization. Users hate having Teams take up an entire monitor, rightfully so.
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Yashwanth
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Hurry up please.. if Microsoft want to be competitive and teams to be used by more companies, you got to hurry up and get the compact view.
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Anonymous
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Hurry up
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Joe Clarke
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Planned in July 2019. GA July 2023.
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David
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The initial request is almost 3 years old, can we possibly get something done on this soon?
The non-compact display compared to Slack is really slowing down adoption of Teams in our organization.
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Anonymous
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Please...hurry. Please.
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John Richardson
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Strongly agree that Teams needs options to make conversations more manageable to review and read.
Suggestion: Create a view that tabulates only the subject line (or if no subject, the first line of text) to aid in quickly sorting through which conversations the user wants to expand.
I anticipate such a feature to be especially helpful for new members to a team to get caught up and to management who want to quickly review what is happening within a team.
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Sean Ellis
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Way back before we moved to Slack because of the terrible UI in Teams, it seems I set an anniversary in my calendar. So, I am back here to check on progress with you all.
Today is 1000 days since the original announcement on February 8, 2017 that Microsoft had acknowledged the need for a compact mode and were "Working on it".
One thousand days.
In that time, we've seen them claim that they have done user feedback assessments, prototyping, usability tests, incremental changes that improved the compactness of the default view (by a tiny amount), that it was "partially done", and then a series of staged backoffs admitting that no work had actually been done, to no work being planned, backtracking all the way to the design stage.
One thousand days.
Meanwhile, multiple users prototyped example layouts using CSS in the web client, and in one case even got a completely working version compactified. This took a couple of days.
One thousand days.
Meanwhile, for the actual developers, two and a half years have slipped by, and Teams is apparently no closer to a compact mode than it was back in February 2017. It's still one of the top user requests, and we're still being promised that it's coming soon.
One thousand days.
Think about that level of commitment to users' concerns. It's ridiculous.
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Jason
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I don't know how a feature that Microsoft was going to enable this month (allow user self-service purchases of Power Platform products) got like 39% fewer votes than this, but was "heard" by Microsoft - and their approach changed. Why hasn't this one been "heard" by Microsoft?