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http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-supernodes-with-linux-boxes-hosted-by-microsoft.ars http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/05

• mkl 6y ago
  Part of the reason for the switch was more and more users on mobile devices, so the proportion of users that could act as supernodes got much smaller. I think I remember one of the Skype developers describing this in a comment on HN, but I can't find it now.