The most overused shortcut is /giphy to the point we have banned gifs on some channels
We ask Slackbot to remind us of our company wide meetings on a Friday.
A lot of people integrate with Outlook to display their status of in a meeting but it’s a little basic.
For development, the integration with BitBucket is great. Being able to nudge reviewers on pull requests is ideal.
We also have some alerts built into our product platform our customers use, so we have database, production, and pre-production alerts to catch issues before they are reported by customers.
There are automatic messages when regression tests pass or fail.
For internal calls, it’s our calling / meeting platform of choice, but customers use Zoom with us.
Finally, we have a few external channels, either for board members to connect to the team or for some customers with their own channel.
Totally agree. Although we run on o365 for the most part, that will change soon. We have only one meeting a fortnight internally that uses it (preference of organiser) but some customers also love it… we always offer to switch to Zoom and most take it up.
Work: ArmorText for Confidential (Bulk Electric System Cyber System Information, BCSI) and Zoom for conference calls. We used to use Microsoft Teams, but it’s just not as good or reliable.
Personal: Signal for everything I can, always verifying the “safety number” (crypto fingerprint). Family uses Skype for regular extended family video calls (looks great on the TV with an Xbox connected and Kinect camera). Google’s Meetings for informal hobby club meetings during 'Rona.
Zoom is EXCELLENT. We only use it when an outside vendor or consultant uses it, but boy, do I actually enjoy Zoom based meetings lol. It’s just such a superior platform (minus the unfortunate security issues with Zoom bombing lol). Holding meetings on Microsoft Teams feels like the 2020 version of the year 2000 chat programs. Aggravating for no reason. The best thing about the Teams program is the use of artificial backgrounds for participants.
Teams isn’t well enough thought out. I take a lot of screenshots during these calls and activating a screenshot always causes the call controls to be shown which cover the presenters screen or multiple people if a few are shown, and you can’t move said call controls. Annoying!
Thankfully my new job doesn’t require me to be on so many calls but it is still a pain.
Zoom has been great for family holiday gatherings! I wasn’t able to go back to see my family this Christmas so I ate my Christmas dinner at the same time as them over zoom haha
But yeah for work purposes, I think I’m with you @jase - fewer tech issues to worry about and more focus on actually speaking to someone haha