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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

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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.

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- Giooschi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  And then Discord arrived
  
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  - 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.
    
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rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

But skype was really buggy and often did not even work

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.

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