It was bought by microsoft, that’s what went wrong.
What went wrong with Skype?
Submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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Liome@pawb.social 2 days ago
ms_lane@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Microsoft is the EA of the Software world. It’s where companies and ideas go to die.
tyler@programming.dev 2 days ago
Yeah anyone who used Skype at the time immediately knew what went wrong
Strider@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Exactly.
amlor@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Sure, but Skype was shit even before that. It had great potential though, could have become another whatsapp.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
I use both daily.
It’s sad that Skype is more reliable and usable.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Answer: Microsoft bought it.
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sometimes a product winds up in late-stage enshittification before its sector is fully developed. Just as the thing it does is beginning to fully explode, it begins to aggressively harvest its brand value. They miss the big wave, and everyone asks what happened. That’s one disadvantage in moving early. You also hit enshittification early.
Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Cant read the article due to paywall, but, nothing “went wrong” with skype, it was and has always been utter trash. Just having your username leaked was a security breach. Skype’s only merit was it was the first easy to use video calling platform that combined text, audio and streaming in one.
Theres a reason why it was so easy to move my friends group off skype to discord right when discord launched, but I havent been able to convince that same group to move from discord.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Skype had very good architecture and compared to things popular today was more usable.
It also worked with unbelievably bad connectivity.
Security-wise - advanced Linux users would run Skype under a different user, so that it couldn’t access their home directory. A weird decision to be honest, since an X11 client can make full screen captures and observe keypresses all the same. Security theater is sometimes just a hobby.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Wasn’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
genuineparts@infosec.pub 2 days ago
This essentially. It was an easy voice and more importantly videocall software that was free. There were alternatives for text (ICQ, AIM) which were nice and everyone ahd them, and voice (Teamspeak, Mumble) which were either not free or you had to host them yourself and neither did Videocalls. So you begrugingly had a skype account too.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 day ago
eddanja@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Microsoft rep: “I believe you are referring to Teams.”
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Skype felt heavy, no matter the spec of the computer it felt bloated and sluggish. I’m not trading thr article, but teams is and discord took Skype outback had their way and threw Skype in a dumpster when they were done.
Kiernian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Original pre-microsoft Skype was not AS bloaty. It ran on my underpowered PC at the time with no issues.
Several patches/versions/whatever after Ms gutted the p2p aspect and centralized the servers, it slowed waaaaaay the hell down.
Make of that anecdotal evidence what you will.
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I did use Skype until 2010. It was rough on an Intel atom netbook lol. And the. Again on a 3rd gen i7 mobile. And again on a 4th gen desktop. All the way through I’ve had the opposite experience.
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 21 hours ago
WARNING: Contains very loud swearing right from the start.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
While we are at it, what went wrong with Twitter too? Have you guys noticed Twitter kind of sucks lately?
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 days ago
What are you, some kind of communist woke globalist radical?
sanimalp@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My opinion is that Skype was killed by the smartphone. I used Skype from probably 2003-ish to 2008 as my only source of a home phone number to interact with people who had a phone number, as I did not have or want a cell phone or a landline. After that, I got a cell phone that people could call me on, replacing my need for skype a s aphone number source, and then various video chat and voice calling apps came along completely replacing the functionality I was using Skype for. Then when Microsoft bought it, that put a very sour taste in my mouth at the time, and there was no looking back.
commander@lemmings.world 2 days ago
I moved in with my online girlfriend and no longer needed it.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Complete and utter disregard for their Linux community and their reliability when they swapped off p2p and onto cloud based infrastructure was a pretty big one. It was crashing multiple times a day during that stage.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Having centralized authentication servers. Otherwise MS purchase of it wouldn’t kill the normal Skype, and by now it’d be probably, like ship of Theseus, actualized for modern security and other requirements. Like X-Wing Alliance and WoW and Warcraft III modding, and other iconic games getting even replacement engines.
Hotline got FOSS clients at some point, some still work, some people even make new ones.
Kryptkravler@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It was hogging port 80.
dukatos@lemm.ee 2 days ago
So it can bypass shitty firewall setups.
P1nkman@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Microsoft.