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Microsoft rep: “I believe you are referring to Teams.”
While we are at it, what went wrong with Twitter too? Have you guys noticed Twitter kind of sucks lately?
What are you, some kind of communist woke globalist radical?
Skype felt heavy, no matter the spec of the computer it felt bloated and sluggish. I’m not trading thr article, but teams is and discord took Skype outback had their way and threw Skype in a dumpster when they were done.
Original pre-microsoft Skype was not AS bloaty. It ran on my underpowered PC at the time with no issues.
Several patches/versions/whatever after Ms gutted the p2p aspect and centralized the servers, it slowed waaaaaay the hell down.
Make of that anecdotal evidence what you will.
I did use Skype until 2010. It was rough on an Intel atom netbook lol. And the. Again on a 3rd gen i7 mobile. And again on a 4th gen desktop. All the way through I’ve had the opposite experience.
Sometimes a product winds up in late-stage enshittification before its sector is fully developed. Just as the thing it does is beginning to fully explode, it begins to aggressively harvest its brand value. They miss the big wave, and everyone asks what happened. That’s one disadvantage in moving early. You also hit enshittification early.
Microsoft.
Complete and utter disregard for their Linux community and their reliability when they swapped off p2p and onto cloud based infrastructure was a pretty big one. It was crashing multiple times a day during that stage.
My opinion is that Skype was killed by the smartphone. I used Skype from probably 2003-ish to 2008 as my only source of a home phone number to interact with people who had a phone number, as I did not have or want a cell phone or a landline. After that, I got a cell phone that people could call me on, replacing my need for skype a s aphone number source, and then various video chat and voice calling apps came along completely replacing the functionality I was using Skype for. Then when Microsoft bought it, that put a very sour taste in my mouth at the time, and there was no looking back.
Having centralized authentication servers. Otherwise MS purchase of it wouldn’t kill the normal Skype, and by now it’d be probably, like ship of Theseus, actualized for modern security and other requirements. Like X-Wing Alliance and WoW and Warcraft III modding, and other iconic games getting even replacement engines.
Hotline got FOSS clients at some point, some still work, some people even make new ones.
WARNING: Contains very loud swearing right from the start.
It was hogging port 80.
So it can bypass shitty firewall setups.
