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Skype really went down the toilet when Microsoft bought them. At one point (~5 years ago) they were the best video chat and VOIP product by a long shot. Text ch
by jobu 10y ago
Skype really went down the toilet when Microsoft bought them. At one point (~5 years ago) they were the best video chat and VOIP product by a long shot. Text chat and user search were clunky, but at least the notifications were reliable. It was a great tool for working with a remote team spanning multiple continents.
Now, the voice quality is still pretty good compared to a landline call, but the calls tend to drop, video quality has gone to crap, and the call/text notifications are broken. (I just got a notification on my phone about a text from yesterday, and it never showed up on my computer. WTF!??)
- imglorp 10y agoAfter purchase, Microsoft changed the architecture from peer-to-peer to client-server, which incurs extra latency obviously. https://blogs.skype.com/2013/10/04/skype-architecture-update/ https://blogs.skype.com/2013/10/04/skype-architecture-update... http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-supernodes-with-linux-boxes-hosted-by-microsoft/ http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-s...
- contingencies 10y agoGreat for surveillance though!
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- robryan 10y agoSearch is still horrible. I can only assume that is is sequentially searching back through every line of chat with no index and hanging everything in the process. Then when it does find something the common use case is never going to be scrolling back through 3 years of chat to get back to current messages, should just show say 100 lines of context and load more on demand. I have no idea what they actually do on this product text chat wise, but it has always been average and isn't getting any better.