Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype
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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!
