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I think Teams is the best “all ‘round” for chat and video and screen sharing.

Slack is best in class for chat though.

Teams chat sucks in a few ways:

* Posts? Why can’t messages be more lightweight.

* No custom emojis like party parrot.

* Total crapshoot whether it converts my three backticks into a code block.

* Please fuck off with trying to offer me apps every time I paste a link.

* Posts? Why can’t messages be more lightweight.

The alternative is group DMs but those come with many issues as well:

* They tend to proliferate every time you need to chat with a slightly different group of people;

* No support for threads whatsoever;

* Why is it in a completely separate place from "teams"?

* No custom emojis like party parrot.

Custom emojis and gif search integration. I know Teams has the latter but it's clunky.

* Total crapshoot whether it converts my three backticks into a code block.

Agree. Formatting a message in Teams is like playing the lottery. You have a chance of winning but really in all likelihood you will lose.

Slack's WYSIWYG editor is pretty bad as well, but: it's much, much better than Teams's; and I can disable it altogether.

In the privacy settings "Optional connected experiences" will turn off the app previews (and web previews).

I was very excited to turn this off, but it turns out it's already off.

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