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After 15 years as a customer, yesterday was the last day of my last Skype subscription. So long to the random designs, dropping calling features, horrible conn
by newsbinator 8y ago
After 15 years as a customer, yesterday was the last day of my last Skype subscription.
So long to the random designs, dropping calling features, horrible connections and barely-human customer support. You won't get another penny from me unless/until you do a 180.
- x3tm 8y agoWhat's the alternative service you're going to use now?
- newsbinator 8y agoSurprisingly: Viber. Viber Out works great for calling out to 50 countries, and most text communication is on eMail/Slack/iMessage/etc It's been a few days of Viber and already I see several pluses: * Putting a call on speaker takes one tap and doesn't hang my phone, unlike Skype which pops up the native iOS sound output device chooser for some reason. * Easy to see call history & times under a given contact (Skype did a weird center-aligned thing that made the information super-difficult for human eyes to parse) * Easy to edit contact name info (Skype made this like 5 menus deep) * Easy to set/remove contacts as favorites (Skype hid this somewhere new every few weeks)