MS-teams

Short-commings

• No URL change when navigating in chats/channel posts.
• No breadcrumb on each chat/channel
  • Cannot view which is the Channel on telcos/presentations!!
• Left sidebar is unstable (tree changes when in telco, even in new merged-UX)
• Cannot save/retrieve bookmarks.
• Cannot open more app windows.
• Cannot hold 2 or more chats/channels viewable side by side
• mobile app: cannot scroll to the last posts with a button from mobile (hindering long posts, since clicking the link of past replies gets you at the top)
• Cannot search all past chats/channels en mass

Short-commings vs Slack, Zulip

• Only the author can edit OP
• not FOSS
• API hard to use (for bots/automations)
• ECAS blocks all integrations with other EC IT-systems

Channel-vs-topics per feature saga

Channels

• listed in left-sidebar:
  • easy to retrieve old stuff when deciding where to post
  • possible to pin & hide, thus 3 levels of visibility
• notifications:
  • by default turned-off, so new topics do not bother us all
• Cannot explicitly hide/archive old discussions
• analytics are channel-only:
  • may function as calendar/time-tracking about features

Topic

• old discussions are implicitly "archived" (pushed back)
• can emulate TOCs with pinned posts and the (i) right-sidebar