Would seem almost intentional given the size and success of the company. How do you fuck something like that up so badly? Seems like one of those Embrace, Extend, Extinguish deals or similar
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baatliwala@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Amazing how Skype went from a verb to the shadow realm
frunch@lemmy.world 3 days ago
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Skype was always shit. It was being first to market that made it popular. It was one of the first ways to get cheaper and free informational calling. By the time MS purchased it vent and ts became popular as well as zoom and others entering the space.
boreengreen@lemm.ee 3 days ago
One of the things skype did first and best was decent noise filtering, transforming peoples shit audio equipment to something you could listen to for more than 5 minutes without going crazy.
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 3 days ago
For sure, Skype/eBay did a lot right at first. But by the time MS bought it, it was already falling from favor.
gbuttersnaps@programming.dev 3 days ago
I miss vent, it was so clean
derin@lemmy.beru.co 2 days ago
Mumble existed then, and still exists now. Vent was literally never clean, it was always bloated and behind.
(sorry, I’m very passionate about the Vent vs. Ts vs. Mumble debacle of the early aughts)
warbond@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I agree with you here. They just never kept up with what people wanted or needed out of a communications platform. When Discord showed it was more versatile nearly 10 years ago, my whole group switched and never looked back.
Skype call sounds still bring specific kinds of nostalgia though.
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They treated it as an extension of the telephone is how I always thought about it.
jodanlime@midwest.social 3 days ago
Word on the street is that MS couldn’t harvest the data they wanted out of Skype, even after turning off the encryption. So they let the Skype team keep on going because of reasons, while silently replacing them with teams.