The biggest thing they did to kill it was banner ads in the client. The second those showed up, all my friends and myself instantly jumped to the new, fledgling Discord.
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jodanlime@midwest.social 5 weeks agoIf I remember correctly MS bought it from eBay. And then promptly did their best job at taking a dump on it. Nothing MS did to Skype was good, disabled encryption by default, removed features, made the network so terrible that they actually make you consider teams. At one point Skype was the only game in town for personal web calls and chats, in the US at least. MS pissed that away, because killing competition and owning patents is more lucrative than creating good products and services.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Which very quickly started to add the occasional banner and constantly push nitro. It fucking sucks.
Is there a defederated version which doesn’t constantly drop quality and connection like discord does?
OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Matrix
jonne@infosec.pub 5 weeks ago
Also forced people to use a Microsoft account to use it, and they definitely messed something up in the migration.