Teams message feed is sorting new messages from top to bottom.

Anonymous
2023-04-13T13:44:03+00:00

Why can't I just turn off this feature instead of spending time looking for how to turn it off every time the app is updated. I can't turn it off on my phone and this is annoying. The only reason I still use it is because of work. this 2.0 feature is frustrating me. please help to turn it off and never turn on back again by itself.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-05-19T19:30:46+00:00

    This change just happened to me today and was very frustrating to learn. I agree with your sentiment Joe. Exceptionally poor choice of design. Please be consistent in how messages are displayed or at least give us the ability to choose in the settings.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-05-19T00:51:02+00:00

    Plus I am using it a bit more and many of the conversations are not in order (reverse order I should say) I am seeing many that are old mixed in with new ones at the top.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-05-19T00:49:46+00:00

    There should be a way to sort it so it is on the original format. Many many many people at my company do not like this new format (it is fine if you can change it back) but it is not a good feature to force people to use. You MUST give a way to change it back if that is the users preference.

    I understand adding the feature, but to make a major change like this and force everyone to use it with no way to change the settings back to how it has been since we started using teams is not a good way to do it. I am sure if the designers programmed it properly there would be a super easy way to have a setting change in the app as it seems simple enough of a setting to add to allow users to customize it how they want.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-05-10T10:42:09+00:00

    There something odd about the UX here.

    I see this as moving to a more facebook style Posts+Replies for team channels, with a more prominent reply box.

    However - currently I find our teams use quite a lot of channels like chatrooms, not like facebook - they don't see posts and reply in thread; they just add another message to the main channel like a chat conversation. They're going to be very annoyed when things happen "backwards".

    While this move towards posts+replies isn't bad in itself, it means we are effectively losing the team chatroom for each team.

    Having a flag at channel level to say whether it's a chat or a posting channel would be good.

    Ultimately all I've ever wanted was a groupable list of "stuff" going on that I can keep my eye on or get alerted to - and get involved where needed.

    My ideal is for the app not to be split by feature at the top, instead being grouped by team (and arbitrary groups I define). I want to see tasks, calendars, chats, post-channels, calls, activity, folders, collaborative files, emails, apps, etc relevant to that group ... under the group. I wouldn't mind nested subgroups too, but can live without ;)

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-05-08T17:14:48+00:00

    Agreed. Sorting the posts in Channels to be "Newest-at-top" while Chats (in the same app) are "Newest-at-bottom" is awful design.

    Please give us a choice to sort the posts in the order we want. Forcing us to use this mismatched design is cruel to people who are forced to use this tool.

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