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I don't know why this necessitates the removal of supernodes though, because it has always been the case that desktop clients could disable supernode functional

by Torgo 13y ago

I don't know why this necessitates the removal of supernodes though, because it has always been the case that desktop clients could disable supernode functionality with a checkbox option. Why would it ever be enabled (or even an option) on a mobile client? Or is the issue simply that the majority of clients have become non-supernode-capable and it became an issue? I wish he would have went into more detail on this because at first glance the explanation is not sufficient to justify the change.

wmf 13y ago
Kaufman's point is that phones don't even have enough resources to be a normal Skype peer, let alone a supernode. Thus work had to be shifted from peers to servers. I guess they could have shifted all that work to supernodes, but it was probably simpler to just put that functionality in reliable MS data centers. Also, I don't know that it's safe to send iOS/Android push messages from random PCs.