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[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 97 points 3 days ago (2 children)

They had Skype! It was the verb for video calling for god's sake! How do you LOSE so BADLY so CONSISTENTLY and STILL have investors.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Business, government, and military contracts. Doesn't matter how crappy you are, as long as you promise to be the fall-guy when a insert large entity has a insert large tech problem, they'll keep shoveling money at you.

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hey wait, I can do that! Where do I apply?

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well there used to be an island where the majority of folks involved in these kind of deals went to, but the owner landed in some legal trouble and decided to hang somewhere else instead

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

So you're saying that position is open, too?

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Sometimes I miss Microsoft Lync, but not often.

~~I made this comment as a joke but I actually do miss that chats could be in separate windows. s far as I know most major corporate (and non corporate, looking at you Discord) chat platforms don't let you pop out windows.~~

Edit: Okay, it's just Discord that's the problem then. It sort of supports it in that it will open the chat in your web browser, but then it does weird things like play the notification sound twice.

[–] ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can pop out threads with a command click in Slack, but I don't know if you can change that to the default behaviour.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Just threads? Not a chat room or DM?

Edit: Just tried this on DMs and chat rooms and it works. Thanks so much for the tip! Another successful usage of Poe's Law, the best way to find an answer on the Internet is to post incorrect information and wait for someone to correct you!

[–] joenforcer@midwest.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's quite literally the first option on the three-dot menu of any Teams chat: "Open in new window"

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh nice, fortunately/unfortunately we don't use Teams for chats at my current company.

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Lucky, one company I work for had Teams, the other one - small-ish 20 people - self hosts Rocket Chat.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That sounds neato. My main gripe with Teams (and I'm hoping someone will correct me again) is that you can't enter raw text into the editor (think like writing Markdown). It's just a WYSIWYG/rich editor. I really cannot fucking stand those things.

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 1 points 7 hours ago

I've got countless gripes, I don't think there is a feature that I like or that they made 100% working and easy to use.