Comment on What went wrong with Skype?
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2 days agoWasn’t Skype the best audio/video protocol at the time? Everything else around it was terrible, but I remember that skype was the only voice call software that worked well for me on shitty connection back in the day.
Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
My memory says that both vent and teamspeak were way better for audio, but this was also a time where no one had a mic remotely close to the average you get today. Video, yes. But skype was really buggy and often did not even work
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
It’s so long ago that my memory might fail me. Skype didn’t need a hosted server and that made it accessible.
Giooschi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And then Discord arrived
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Yeah and like anything getting big, here we are, Discord trying to go public and fuck everything over. The cow is fat enough to be milked then butchered until it’s nothing but bones and scraps.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Could you please specify the time of such assessment? Because somewhere between 2009 and 2012 Skype seemed flawless for me (of course, with ICQ before it I just didn’t know what’s reliable offline messages and message history, so there’s that).
Voice calls worked well enough over like 45kbps. Leaving space for online game traffic (I think it was something like Burden of Crown over Hamachi, not too demanding). Of course my memory might make the experience cooler than it really was.