Skype was shut down for good today

Story of the times, have a good thing then break it so you can replace it with a shitier thing. Then have the competition eat your lunch by making a slightly less shitty thing.

I found my physical "skipe" phone last week, dang it we could have had a bad bitch. But no, now we have fucking teams.

Not really. It’s just called “Teams” now.

Immigration Canada wanted proof of my wife and I's relationship, so we dumped a packet of printed call logs on them as thick as a novel. Skype certainly served its purpose.

Everyone cashed out on Skype the day it was sold to eBay. Years later people are still wondering what happened to it?? The train left the station forever ago.

Is there a non paywalled link?

They screwed it up as much as possible and abandoned the P2P protocol and are now shutting it down. The behavior is like a little kid who broke a toy, it stopped working and he throws it away.

I want to put Skype's corpse on a banner and wave it around to all the software that's currently undergoing enshittification.

skype was way ahead of his time. The quality was top notch. MS fucked by changing the architecture from decentralized to centralized in windows servers - this fucked up the calls quality and it created an opportunity window for whatsapp, viber, etc...

MS turned skype to shit.

Truthfully I loved Skype until Microsoft bought it.

I remember the "old" Skype, which was essential for keeping in touch with my siblings before we got cell phones. Once I got a phone, it was the end of Skype until ~2014 when I got a job where Skype for business was available. I still didn't use it because that application would sometimes crash if you just jiggled the mouse. It because a running joke at my workplace.

Clock into work, Skype crashed.

Go to lunch, Skype crashed.

Ran out of TP at home. You guessed it. Skype crashed.

Still find it absolutely wild that Microsoft fucked up during the global pandemic and allowed Zoom to slide right into the communications spot Skype should have been.

Fucking idiots.

MSN messenger died for Skype

Skype died for Teams

We're not on a great trajectory here

(Yes Lync too, but everyone was pleased about that)

great, now do teams.

nobody should have to use that ugly useless piece of shit for anything.

Wait, Skype was still around? I thought it shutdown a few years back

I fell out of contact with a lot of people when they shuttered MSN messenger for Skype, so not sad to see it go.

It was dead to me after microsoft bought it.

For us plebs. Government (US) will still use it for years to come.

On one hand, having been forced to use Skype, I’m happy to see it gone. On the other hand, they somehow made it worse and called it Teams.

Somebody send a gift basket to the Skype CEO, he's not doing so well.

Skype you later!

IMO Skype to this day has the best emojis.

Still working as of 4 hours ago, saw my friend using it, might be business version though.

Rip to a real one

I actually had a Skype phone back in the days

It’s sad… Skype saved my butt when I was stuck in Peru and needed to call for help in my home country. I had found out 1-800 lines didn’t use call credits

Skype for Business LTSC 2024 is still supported until 2029. You just need to already be running an On-Prem Skype for Business Server and migrate it to the new Subscription Edition come October. I bet it will get really costly for the holdouts.

I find it funny Microsoft gave me a survey on my work PC asking about how I'm enjoying its products (I laughed in Linux, "how do you like windows customizablity" let me go off about KDE lol)

But back to the subject. Literally everything they work on seems to turn to shit --- I wonder what kind of survey feedback are they usually getting? "Oh, Skypes cool but I really like Teams"

Who?

I never really used Skype as a VOIP platform, but it was a great tool for many years for calling international phone numbers affordably. I'm sure it helped many people saving a lot of money calling their friends and relatives. For that I remember it somewhat fondly.

and when are the estonian nationalist gonna luigi em?

Is Microsoft planning to release a viable replacement at some point?

Huh?
I thought Skype was still a widely used thing.

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