Understandable choice, given that Skype is pretty much redundant with Teams. Back in 2004-2005 Skype was really hyped because of free voice calls through the Internet, but few days later several other messaging apps incorporated that feature; Skype’s thunder was stolen. Also its inconsistent branding was a problem: there was Skype for Business that later became Lync, ultimately becoming Teams. Skype kind of became forgotten and obsolete.
hardly surprising. we talk about enshittification today but Skype was one of the most egregious offenders before the term was even coined, in late-stage Skype (circa 2016-2017) i couldn’t even run the fucking thing without lag because of in-line ads. the user experience was frankly awful, and once you’ve used something like Discord or Zoom there’s just never any reason to go back.
Excellent stewardship, Microsoft.
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The last time I used skype, it was to monitor my 3d print because I needed to finish a project and my last attempt went all spaghetti.
So as I was at work I’d log into my computer from my phone, call myself with skype, and check to make sure everything was still okay.
Then I discovered octoprint.
Skype was a beast at tunnelling through proxy blocking then acting as a proxy itself for other Skype endpoints that were not as successful.
I didn’t even know it was still around. I stopped using it when microsoft bought it.
Thank the gods I’ll never have to listen to their algorithmic sound butchering ever again.
Haven’t used Skype since 2005
I may have used Skype for the last time in 2014 or so.
