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I think you should look into how shady the P2P model of Skype was and how easily super nodes could eavesdrop on other users. It was also completely unreliable
by dogma1138 8y ago
I think you should look into how shady the P2P model of Skype was and how easily super nodes could eavesdrop on other users.
It was also completely unreliable when a large chunk the user base switched to mobile messages won’t send, send out of order, would go into the limbo only to appear X days or even months later and if you were signed into multiple devices you were out of luck since if your desktop would’ve received a message while your mobile didn’t you would never see it on your mobile.
Skype died for many reasons MSFT not continuing with its botnet like network model as it’s a huge liability for them isn’t one of them.
- hungerstrike 8y agoIs Skype really dead? I still use it and it works and other people that I know use it. So, I wouldn’t really call it dead I guess. I think it died with a certain crowd maybe.
- dogma1138 8y agoI stopped using it even to talk to my mother who’s almost 80 everyone I know dropped it for WhatsApp and FaceTime.