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I have a success story with that. I moved abroad and I have a chat with my parents using Skype from time to time. After the Microsoft acquisition Skype had to
by reidrac 12y ago
I have a success story with that.
I moved abroad and I have a chat with my parents using Skype from time to time. After the Microsoft acquisition Skype had to be upgraded and the old version stopped working. My parents aren't tech-savvy really and I failed to diagnose their problem remotely, so I tried https://talky.io/ https://talky.io/ (just because I watched Sam Dutton talk about WebRTC and he used that web for a demo).
It worked (to be completely fair, slightly worse than an average Skype session), and it kind of blew my mind. My parents weren't impressed though, when I explained them how amazing was that we were video conferencing using a website and open standards.
EDIT: typos
- Sir_Substance 12y agoThis is exactly the sort of thing it is fantastic at. Being able to email or SMS people link and have it Just Work without passwords or accounts or port forwarding is actually really nifty, and exactly what you need to start a chat with grandma. For the record, my experience has been that firefox hello is superior in quality to skype.
- jamiesonbecker 12y agoAwesome testimonial. If it's superior (or even close to comparable) to skype, I'm switching immediately.
- rquirk 12y agoThe problem I had doing something similar was getting the link to them. You need some other out-of-band communication method, whereas with skype you just agree to a time of the week when to sign on and call each other. Email sort-of works, but not as easily as the central logged-in lobby system.
- ams6110 12y agoWould be very easy to have a website that coordinated this. Even pastebin would do pretty easily.