Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype
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Skype? Wasn't this the buggy voice chat?
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I was going to say it couldn't have been a decade but then I realized the last time I used Skype was about 2015 2016...
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Around my region, South America, everybody used MSN as well. We went through a phase of using Skype, but it was too resource heavy in comparison with MSN. Later on, people who needed voice chat for games played around with several different apps, until we finally settled with Discord back in 2016. Say all you want about Discord, but I've been using it for almost a decade at this point, and if your need is to have voice and text chat and easy screen sharing for gaming, it's basically the golden standard. The problem started when people started using it as a replacement for forums.
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Where I live, everyone used AOL Instant Messenger, or AIM for short. It was popular with teens because it offered chat rooms, but that meant it was also a popular hunting ground for predators. Nearly every terminally online teen from the early 2000’s has a story about getting groomed on AIM, by someone they initially thought was their own age.
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When COVID started there already where shitload of apps that could do voice. They killed it long time ago by simply making it hard to use, the interface was a complete mess. In the meantime for example there was already Whatsapp dominant with easy to use interface and controls
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You mean teams... No! You mean new teams! No! You mean teams for home use and teams for work! No! You mean new experience teams! Maybe you mean blue teams for use on a moving vehicle between 25 and 60mph on a Wednesday with the windows open while talking to exactly 2 or your close friends who are wearing blue blazers and jeans while drinking coffee but not from Starbucks at their house but not the bedroom and having their living rooms painted magenta in water color teams? Is it that teams? I'm a little confused as to what teams I'm using. I only use it at work because fuck no, I will never use it at home.
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It because a bloated pile of garbage after they bought it. Remember how horrible the app became with battery usage??
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God it's like Gavin Fucking Belson at Hooli is running things
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Everything is centralized and able to be tracked. That is not intentional
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Yeah, for about a week. It's been awesome for the 20 years since. I've used it on some really shitty internet on a weekly-to-daily basis and I've only been amazed at its reliability.
So it stands to reason in 2025 America that we need to destroy something just because it works and works well.
You shoulda tried it. Too bad. It dynamically switched codecs based on congestion, it punched through nats like none before it; it just worked.
None of this "Skype in name" Lync mess.
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I used it only the other day. Worked flawlessly.
In related news, when I turned on the tap in my kitchen, water still came out. And it's been installed for yeeears.
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Teams is skype4biz, which was Lync, which was MSCommunicator...which was a shitty netMeeting.
The Skype you seen in Teans[sic] is not the same animal.
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Well, bad news for your skype-faucet. Water will stop running in Mai.
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Yes, I still have it showing up in Windows/Android, and phone numbers show their cost per minute.
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Oh that's neat, hope you can use them up soon or get a reimbursement of some sort. They just announced formally that they're shutting the service down.
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yeah i'm not going to put in the effort of creating a torrent for some local file i made on my system and then teach people how to use traditional method of download outside of an app store (this assuming they even have a PC since most people only have phones nowadays and then you can forget torrents), install and setup a bittorrent client (after explaining what a client is and does) only so i can drag and drop a torrent file into the chat for them to download LIKE WE USED TO BE ABLE TO DO WITH ALL FILES back in the day. the point is; software technology has literally and artificially been REGRESSED to 56k era limitations.
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I'm talking about technology, not UX.
And bittorrent is an example of something that was done technically and socially right so it's still alive and isn't going anywhere.
So - how does one make a p2p FOSS messenger that people will use. Skype is proprietary, but the closest thing to success in recent history (not counting IRC with XDCC, amateur radio, light signals and pigeons).
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10 years ago it was very mainstream.
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One of my clients is a small company that has been running with seven staff working from home, scattered around the globe, mostly rural. Since 1999. Everything has been held together by skype: chat, video, audio.
Should be interesting finding the right new workflow!
