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IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 year agoSkype 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.
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.
They treated it as an extension of the telephone is how I always thought about it.
Good point, they never really got past that, huh
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.
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 1 year ago
I miss vent, it was so clean
derin@lemmy.beru.co 1 year 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)