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Skype is still great. The only issue with it is spam. Given my popular in Russia name (I'm actually Bulgarian) and that fact that I have there "nikolay" usernam

Skype is still great. The only issue with it is spam. Given my popular in Russia name (I'm actually Bulgarian) and that fact that I have there "nikolay" username, I get constantly contacted by Russian scammers or just random folks. Same with Telegram. There's no way to configure my account to allow messages only from friends or block certain countries. Basically, I can't use either service - it's overflowing with spam and there's nothing I can do about. Well, I did actually try to start blocking people as some keep sending me messages on Skype, but guess what - suddenly, my Microsoft account got disabled. I am a paying customers, I have Family Office subscription, premium Outlook mailbox, Skype subscriptions, Xbox, etc. After many days, and multiple escalations, they found the reason! And it was the most stupid one I can ever imagine - my account was blocked and queued up for deletion (it's 20-years-old!), because I was excessively blocking people!!!

sellyme 6y ago
> Skype is still great. In 2015 my Skype install used >3GB of RAM within minutes of launch. Searching for an uncommon term in chatlogs took hours. I've not been able to open it at all for years because it just hangs on boot. I'm sure that for the average user none of those are concerns because they're talking with a few dozen users at most, but it had incomprehensibly terrible resource management, which is why all the power users jumped ship the second a viable alternative text chat became available.
- nikolay 6y ago
  I think it still carries a lot of legacy of the almost serverless original Skype. A lot of things must be fixed, but it still (I am speaking of today's version) a very solid tool, which I use daily. In addition, it offers a decently priced calling services, which I use, too - much cheaper than those of rivals and quality is great, too.

sellyme 6y ago

> Skype is still great. In 2015 my Skype install used >3GB of RAM within minutes of launch. Searching for an uncommon term in chatlogs took hours. I've not been able to open it at all for years because it just hangs on boot. I'm sure that for the average user none of those are concerns because they're talking with a few dozen users at most, but it had incomprehensibly terrible resource management, which is why all the power users jumped ship the second a viable alternative text chat became available.

nikolay 6y ago
I think it still carries a lot of legacy of the almost serverless original Skype. A lot of things must be fixed, but it still (I am speaking of today's version) a very solid tool, which I use daily. In addition, it offers a decently priced calling services, which I use, too - much cheaper than those of rivals and quality is great, too.