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Sadly, Skype is still used a lot. More than half of the emails I receive with a next step of communication proposal come suggesting Skype. The only way to beat
by illuminated 10y ago
Sadly, Skype is still used a lot. More than half of the emails I receive with a next step of communication proposal come suggesting Skype.
The only way to beat it would be to have another communication solution which can be used as simple as Skype is (for any age, technical literacy, etc.).
- sebisebi 10y agoI got a lot of friends to switch to whatsapp. The audio quality and stability is usually better.
- cm2187 10y agoOn a desktop?
- Angostura 10y agoAnd it requires uploading every contact on your device to their servers. Nope.
- tokenizerrr 10y agoHow do you use whatsapp from a laptop without signing up using a phone first? Doesn't seem convenient at all.
- iopq 10y agoA lot of people use Discord now. I mean, you can use it inside of a browser, what can be easier than that?
- egeozcan 10y agoSeems to be designed for games only, or did I end up in a targeted landing page?
- jhgg 10y agoGames are the target niche - but really - anyone can use it. At the end of the day - it's just a chat product - that has some gamer centric features.
- iopq 10y agoIt's for gamers, but it's just chat and voice. I think it's smart of them to capture a niche because they have integration with streaming to Twitch. For example, it hides the names of contacts/server invites when you're streaming video online.
- davidgerard 10y agoMy mother literally got broadband to Skype with her grandchildren.
- calsy 10y agoliterally?
- lsh 10y agono, just metaphorically.
- grundprinzip 10y agoJohn McWhorter: Words on the Move: Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally)
- davidgerard 10y agoLiterally. That was the use case.
- robert_foss 10y agohttp://appear.in/yourconferencename http://appear.in/yourconferencename is rather convenient and should be usable by anyone with a browser.
- alkonaut 10y agoThis. People talk about various alternatives, but I haven't seen one. The requirements are pretty simple 1) Chat and group chat (persistent) 2) Simple file transfer and image posting in chat 3) Good quality voice calls, video calls and group voice calls 4) Apps for android/iOS with shared contact lists 5) Single application for all of the above (to enable a single group set, switching between group chat and group call with one button) 6) No server setup 7) Free or freemium on all platforms (With all features 1-5 in the free tier) Are there any good alternatives? Is there even an alternative?
- waldfee 10y ago+ screen sharing
- tluyben2 10y ago3) Is not true for me though, it's awful mostly, but that's my pet peeve (all coders assume everyone else is on a 1000mbit connection as well all the time) and MS is really bad at making anything work on bad connections. Office 365 isn't even getting past the 'wait while loading' while Google drive/docs is completely usable when I have a bad connection (which is often). The software that was written for bad connections, like Whatsapp and Wechat, for me, have much better quality. But no video (which I personally don't need, but it violates your 3rd demand).
- londons_explore 10y ago
- kagamine 10y agoI started using Pidgin with the Skype plugin, because the company I work for uses Skype for Business (Lync in other words) and that program doesn't log anything, and in business logging is vital. Pidgin is open source, as are all the plugins, making it a good choice for business knowing you aren't installing anything you should not be, and it handles files etc ok, but doesn't do video at all.
- TorKlingberg 10y agoWebRTC is almost there, and I think in the next few years most such emails will have a link to a WebRTC based service. It is easier than Skype really. Just click a link and it starts a video call. There are jsut a few browser compatibility issues that need sorting out.