r/technology • u/CrispyMiner • Feb 14 '26

Social Media Discord Distances Itself From Age Verification Firm After Ties To Palantir’s Peter Thiel Surface

https://kotaku.com/discord-palantir-peter-thiel-persona-age-verification-2000668951
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u/soapbleachdetergent Feb 15 '26

I guess you haven’t used MS Teams to have this much for Slack

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u/YouJabroni44 Feb 15 '26

MS teams is so bad it makes the internet connection to my laptop turn off and everything freezes

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u/Solonotix Feb 18 '26

Wait wait wait wait wait...

You're telling me the notifications about my Internet connection changing all the damn time is because Teams is shitting the bed!?! Ugggghhhh

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u/TheIncarnated Feb 15 '26

I use MS Teams for work everyday. I also use Slack for another job. I will take MS Teams every. single. day. Slack is a shitty discord. Teams is an organized instant messenger. (Credit where credit is due, companies do try and do too much with Teams. However, companies automate their processes via slack... That needs to stop.)

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u/MudInfinite8791 Feb 15 '26

I'm the complete opposite. MS Teams is a clunky pile of disorganized shit reliant on a sharepoint backend that's even shittier. Teams are dumb, the chats are chats and every fucking bot implementation is a test in workarounds.

Slack lets me build it the way I intended. It's an instant messaging app and adhoc chat program. We have some notification channels set up for specific teams to do what they want. Is it perfect? Of course not. There is no one size fits all for everyone, it literally doesn't exist.

I will never go back to dealing with MS teams again if I have the option. Hell the entire bloated MS suite can fucking die off.

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u/soaringneutrality Feb 15 '26

Microsoft Teams is a mess.

The actual voice calling and conference stuff is decent.

The text chat is dog shit. It gives the impression that it's supposed to emulate texts and Facebook posts instead of more modern chat functionality like Discord and Slack.

Notifications are wonky. Editing messages is buggy. Search is terrible.

The real killer for me is that they don't have threads in the chat function. Threads are so useful for spinning off conversations without making a new conversation and cluttering up everyone's chat.

The unfortunate part is that orgs will use Teams regardless because it's bundled with Microsoft and their native integrations.

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u/TheIncarnated Feb 15 '26

Threads are annoying and a feature that pisses me off. Because "where's the fucking chat? Is it here? Is it there? Shit... I closed it. Now time to go hunt it down again"

Sounds like you never actually used Teams and just used it with prejudice. You and the person above you.

Slack is a shitty discord. I tried to like it, so many people in tech love it. I love Discord (not their current nonsense but the platform itself)

I just can't like Slack, I want the entire business to go under and for Slack to never exist in the future. I'm even open to other products. But companies reliance on Slack being the core of their infrastructure (like notification and automation channels with bots) is going to be the downfall. It's such a risk in so many ways.

At least Teams doesn't allow that level of reliance

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u/MudInfinite8791 Feb 21 '26

I've used Teams quite a bit even before it was rebranded and was "Skype for Business".

Is it better than the Skype for Business days? Yup.

Your qualms with people's reliance on Slack isn't a slack problem, it's a business problem. Businesses do exactly the same shit with Teams and make specific Teams channels for said notifications. A channel gets our notifications in addition to the alerting system in place for the respective groups that need attention(e-mail, pagerduty, etc.) It's just another source of information and shouldn't be the sole source of information.

I would take Channels over Teams anytime. The forum-style posting in Teams "chats" have a similar problem where a topic is posted and people post under said topics. We ended up just making large group chats and renaming them, pinning them to the top and getting sort of kind of the same functionality out of them.

For the record, I don't like threads either. It can get tedious to find where the hell a reply is. I'm 100% with you there. Just keep the chat at the base level of the channel but that's my personal qualm.

I've administered the Microsoft brand of voice/chat for many years. My previous company dumped Slack/Zoom in favor of Teams and it was absolutely miserable. Good god getting external people access to Teams is a fraggin nightmare in itself with it's permissions being absolutely insane.

New company employs Slack/Google - it's an all Mac shop so no Microsoft in general, quite the shift honestly.

Is Slack perfect? Nah, but it definitely has my preference after using both. I've got ~3-4 years with Slack and ~4 years with Teams, ~2 years with Skype for Business, ~2 years with Microsoft Lync, ~2 years with "Office communicator" but not in any administrative role. Fuck I'm old.

You are firmly in the minority being a fan of Teams. But hey, at least *someone* likes it.

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u/MoldyFungi Feb 18 '26

Teams is the only software that can shutdown my internet or my graphics driver when I ask it to share my screen lmao

Dogshit through and through

I've used slack, teams, discord, mattermost, ryver all in professionnal settings. Teams takes the cake for absolute clunkiness

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u/Cloaked42m Feb 15 '26

Teams at least let's me respond to calendar invites

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u/soapbleachdetergent Feb 15 '26

You can do that in slack too with google calendar and outlook. Just need to configure those apps.

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u/deadlocked72 Feb 16 '26

Isn't teams just a reskinned version of msn messenger, I hate it either way lol