During the last couple of years it was somewhat of a shithole. My mail got leaked into a chinese spamlist just because one of my contacts had his email pwned.

Microsoft bought Skype and killed it slowly. 🙁

I have been paying for Skype for over 5 years now and never use it.

Immma Scared….

I actually last used it back around 2017

I upgraded to teams app now but have yet to use it.

Would be nice to have FaceTime and Teams access in one App.

Why is iTunes in Microsoft store now but NOT on Macs any more ?

Microsoft Teams in on Mac and iPad now too.

Has the World gone MAD ?…..

subhuman@xgtx wrote on 2025-05-07, 07:35:

During the last couple of years it was somewhat of a shithole. My mail got leaked into a chinese spamlist just because one of my contacts had his email pwned.

Isn't that a risk in any situation where someone else has a form of your ID though, whether its email, number or whatever?

I do remember skype as something cool long ago when it was new. That type of software became so ubiquitous, especially during covid, that its all just "ordinary" now

Skype was cool in the beginning, but as soon as Whatsapp offered VoIP calls, I never used Skype again.

I use skype a lot to phonecall overseas, i will need to find alternatives

Good riddance. I only ever used it for instant messaging after MSN Messenger was terminated and I hated every second of its bloat. I had no intention of ever installing it, but attention from the opposite sex can be very persuasive.

I liked it better before it was webbified. Back when I still had some social life, I remember we liked it better for voice than Xfire, somehow it was more reliable. Xfire...I feel old.

Though last couple of years, only used at work and now increasingly use Teams. Haven't touched Skype since data was auto-migrated to Teams. What's funny, I got few emails from Skype subsequently about missed messages that I already saw on Teams.

Big Pink wrote on 2025-05-09, 18:22:

I had no intention of ever installing it, but attention from the opposite sex can be very persuasive.

🤣!

Won't miss it. Aside from work I haven't used it in the past 10 years and I don't care what we use at work. It'll probably be Teams, unless we bought the extended support for Skype for Business.

Microsoft already bought Skype 2011 and made it worse.

Dittooo. I don't like skype. Overbearing and terrible. I was on ICQ and it was like tunnel of open air exposure airing my private data.
I'm glad of the facebook nowdays.

Cheers,

We bought a version of our TV that had an integrated camera specifically to call my Mom in the US from Europe.
It worked really well because we sat on the couch and talked to her as if she were in the room.
They canceled support after only 3-4 years after us getting the TV and there was no alternative.
There were some weird hacks to get the camera working but nothing I could trust the rest of my family doing.

It worked fine while it lasted but it is very annoying when the cut support like that.

Carrera wrote on 2025-05-14, 11:49:

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We bought a version of our TV that had an integrated camera specifically to call my Mom in the US from Europe.
It worked really well because we sat on the couch and talked to her as if she were in the room.
They canceled support after only 3-4 years after us getting the TV and there was no alternative.
There were some weird hacks to get the camera working but nothing I could trust the rest of my family doing.

It worked fine while it lasted but it is very annoying when the cut support like that.

that's really frustrating! its the risk whenever a product/service required the continuous support of a company - if you find yourself in a small enough niche or not the "focus" of their activity you are dropped in a calculated way, without care

I liken it a bit to when public transport links are dropped for smaller towns - it might "make sense" in some accounting way, but in the end it means some number of people who were fine will now suffer