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Am I the only one who thought pre-Microsoft skype was a poorly-functioning product?

• musage 8y ago
  Being more specific might help.
• newsbinator 8y ago
  Pre-Microsoft Skype suffered from connection issues, poor call quality, and dropped contact lists. Post-Microsoft Skype suffers from connection issues, poor call quality, dropped contact lists, impossible to find options, and a user interface designed to be Snapchat. Calling my mom's phone, which is at the top of my address book, takes like 6 touches, and that's because I do it often enough that muscle memory overrides UI confusion.
• ocdtrekkie 8y ago
  Skype was always a little bit iffy on message delivery when it was peer to peer.
• kalleboo 8y ago
  It was poorly-functioning, but all the alternatives were far worse. Just the fact that Skype would always connect despite double-NAT and broken UDP and god knows what seemed magic at the time. Now Skype has gotten even worse (their "Snapchat" UI is completely unusable), and the alternatives have gotten better.
• cpncrunch 8y ago
  Yes, it was horribly buggy, the Android app in particular. It would only occasionally notify you of new messages. In the last year or two I've found it to be much more reliable, and the reviews seem to concur. Average rating of 3.8 in 2012: http://web.archive.org/web/20120422145525/https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.skype.raider&hl=en http://web.archive.org/web/20120422145525/https://play.googl... Average rating of 4.1 today: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.skype.raider&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.skype.raid... There are lots of anecdotal reports in these threads and in the article, but the objective evidence seems to show that people like it better today than they did in 2012.