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Skype down. Again.
- pigoz 15y agoskype's always one step ahead, they are shifting to microsoft quality to make the transition smoother for their customers. :)
- lachyg 15y agoI'm getting really sick of the stupid Microsoft remarks. I'm a Mac / Apple guy through and through, but it's just so annoying all the people saying things are going to shit the second M$ gets them, even though when the problem obviously has nothing to do with M$.
- ffffruit 15y agoSkype was reclassified by kids from "awesome software" to "proprietary crap" as soon as Microsoft bought it.
- technomancy 15y agoI was hating on Skype way before it was cool. ("What, SIP? It's a pretty obscure protocol; you probably haven't heard of it.")
- iwwr 15y agoTry IAX/IAX2, a NAT-transparent VoIP protocol.
- MaxMorlock 15y agoYou are really funny. You pretend to be the grown-up here and still write M$. :-)
- lhnz 15y agoI know it's an annoying 90s in-joke, but let's be honest, these instability problems did start happening weeks after Microsoft bought the company. It might not be what trolls suggest but it's certainly some coincidence..!
- RobAtticus 15y agoThe instability problems like the major downtime in December, 5 months before Microsoft bought them?
- lhnz 15y agoI don't remember that. I use it at work and I've only noticed that there have been a lot more instability problems over the last month. Previous to that it's felt rock-solid to me...
- tibbon 15y agoAlso worth mentioning that many APIs are down or at least unstable, even if the main service appears up still.
- thefox 15y agoI prefer IRC instead of Skype.
- ohashi 15y agoHow is this relevant?
- amirrustam 15y agoIf you use Skype's services extensively even before Microsoft came along, you would have noticed a lot of bugs (I know I did, and their support was meh), but they try. I would like to blame Microsoft for this, but I don't have any solid evidence to do so. A lot of business's rely on Skype, so for them to just go out and say sorry is kind of bullshit. Where are the backup systems. There must be some process put it into place that compensates for situations like this. Maybe Microsoft can throw some coin at Skype now for a brand spankin new data center.
- ohashi 15y agoWell until that major outage, I don't know how much infrastructure skype was running. I recall something about supernodes (or super super?) that they would be hosting to prevent these cascading failures. The whole P2P nature was the clever trick, not sure how much more data centers will actually help when it's software bugs that seem to take the system down.
- bonzoesc 15y agoThey've spun up "mega-supernodes," when cascading failures have taken the network down before[1], but they don't need to run them full-time, just when traffic is such that the traditional supernodes can't handle the traffic of a new network. 1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2048630 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2048630
- ohashi 15y agoThanks!
- RobAtticus 15y agoMicrosoft has not acquired Skype yet, so it doesn't make sense to try and blame them.
- aantix 15y agoAre there any alternatives worth exploring? Has anyone used Oovoo? (not affiliated in any way, just curious)
- borism 15y agohave you tried PSTN?
- aantix 15y agoThanks.
- berkes 15y agoOpen Source alternatives are Ekiga and QuteCom. But frankly, on Ubuntu both Ekiga and QuteCom are just as badly integrated (i.e. not at all) and its additional downsides are that there are hardly people using the network; you can hardly call anyone. Yet? Aside from that, Ekiga is a 1:1 replacement for skype, feature and ease-of-use-wise. Maybe a tad more stable :). On Ubuntu at least.