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Skype is not mentioned on the page. I guess, we live in different realities.

• slim 8y ago
  Skype works well on linux
  • sliken 8y ago
    Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. It's been pretty much down hill since then. Had multiple cases where the client works, and the web links don't. Or the weblinks work and the client doesn't. Sometimes calls work... but not receiving invites... or vice versa. All the users I knew that used skype regularly have fled.
• mrweasel 8y ago
  The only people I know that uses Skype are people working for large companies and they only use it because their employers tell them to. I think it has to do with how your countries telcos developed. If phone calls a cheap, why would you care about Skype? WhatsApp, Telegram and other messaging services seem to be popular around the world, but, perhaps because SMS quickly became basically free here, everyone just use that.
  • lazyasciiart 8y ago
    Phone calls across the world are still not cheap.
  • walshemj 8y ago
    Not in the US where I suspect a majority of HN readers come from.
    • Marsymars 8y ago
      I'd be interested to see numbers. I'd guess plurality, but not majority.
      • walshemj 8y ago
        That would be interesting to a poll on