Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype

[hiro8811@lemmy.world]

Who? Never heard of him

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

https://lemmy.world/comment/15367515 - yes ; so I think the idea of an IM that could replace it with the functionality normal for it belongs not to the tech realm (all parts solved separately), but to social studies and market studies realm. Somehow there is a technology that has defeated all competition thrown at it, it's called bittorrent.

[jadensmith@sh.itjust.works]

I remember when Skype first came out, when I was a teenager. I called a random guy in Japan; he was learning English, I wanted to learn Japanese (as is tradition for teenage anime fans). It was a very kind series of calls, and we talked a bit about Japanese culture too. He taught me, rather patiently, how to pronounce certain basic words properly.
It's a shame the service was treated like it has been. There was great potential in connecting people.

Wherever you are, random Japanese dude I forgot the name of, konbanwa!!

[thisphuckinguy@lemmy.world]

They killed it as soon as they acquired it.

[tankovayadiviziya@lemmy.world]

I totally forgot it exists, meaning I thought it was already dead.

[satans_methpipe@lemmy.world]

That's fine I'll just use Lync.

[squizzy@lemmy.world]

I find 365 to be a terrible mess if applications, outlook and teams have a calendar separate to the calendar app. Teams sucks

[monkdervierte@lemmy.ml]

Skype? Wasn't this the buggy voice chat?

[baguette@lemm.ee]

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...

[alphabethunter@lemmy.world]

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.

[pm_your_nudes_please@lemmy.world]

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.

[ugjka@lemmy.world]

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

[werefreeatlast@lemmy.world]

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.

[douchebagmcswag@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

It because a bloated pile of garbage after they bought it. Remember how horrible the app became with battery usage??

[douchebagmcswag@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

God it's like Gavin Fucking Belson at Hooli is running things

[douchebagmcswag@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Everything is centralized and able to be tracked. That is not intentional

[corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca]

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.

[corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca]

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.

[corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca]

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.

[gloria@sh.itjust.works]

Well, bad news for your skype-faucet. Water will stop running in Mai.