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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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Open Teams in a mobile browser and Microsoft says your browser is unsupported and to download the app, but if you request the desktop site it works (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 day ago by tombruzzo@lemm.ee to c/assholedesign@lemmy.world

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Of course it looks like shit though. It doesn't size to your screen, it looks like normal teams but really small.

Outlook works in the browser fine, and maybe I don't want to have teams on my personal phone but occasionally want to check things

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[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is pretty normal for sites that are not set up to look/run well on mobile, tbh.

[–] tombruzzo@lemm.ee 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't mention this in the main post but teams used to scale down and work fine on mobile previously.

And is there any reason a company as big as m$ couldn't support a mobile version of teams?

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago

There's no good reason, no, other than the laziness/cheapness previously mentioned.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, but it could have an option to choose desktop version on phone screen or download app.

They could even design a mobile friendly website.

If they are lying to you and you need to circumvent their demands, then that is asshole design in my view,.too.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Who is lying? Sure, you can argue lazy/cheap by not designing for mobile, but as someone who does some web design and does design for mobile responsiveness, it's honestly annoying and I don't blame them.

[–] wischi@programming.dev 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm pretty sure the mobile teams UI is also just web stack with a webview wrapper. They want you to use the app so you have to install intune and to get deeper into your system.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Unsupported, with a screen not showing what it should means doesn't work, for a non tech user. It's deliberate misrepresentation. This is also called lying.

You can lie by omission. You can lie blatantly and you can lie by inference.

Sure, mobile responsive design can be frustrating. However, they are a giant company with billions in resources. They are not doing it to help users, they are doing it to force app downloads and data harvesting.

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

When I tried this, second half of 2024, I had to spoof my user-agent and use private mode to not get ID'd as the mobile browser who just tried to load the site.

I mean it's fine to tell people that your site doesn't work as intended, it's fine that you have to request the desktop site. And I'm not complaining about the user experience. FFS I used to surf with the Opera browser MIDlet, on my Samsung d500, 20 years ago. Having an interface that matches your screen is a luxury most people take for granted these days.

But I feel like I had to jump through multiple hoops to bypass microsoft's wish that I install their client and have it be connected in the background.