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Especially since Skype gives you all of their functionality for free. I'm really wondering what advantage this has over Skype group chats (which is free).

• dasil003 15y ago
  Without even looking at their page: logging, persistence, availability, API hooks. Skype is awesome and is the cornerstone of my team for private communications. But if history is only transferred when parties are connected, and only between people who are explicitly added to each chat, it leaves a giant gaping hole in group communications.
  • socialist_coder 15y ago
    Those problems do come up, yes, but they are never serious nor annoying enough to leave me searching for a better solution.
  • moe 15y ago
    logging, persistence, availability, API hooks. Skype has all that, except the API hooks (which I'd expect pretty low on anyones list). Also not sure what you mean by "availability". Skype is about as available as it gets - Everyone and their dog already has it installed.
    • dasil003 15y ago
      Availability means it's online all the time. A server isn't, people's Skype isn't. Maybe it works for you if you're all in the same office, but I have people in 8 different time zones.