Is there a non paywalled link?
this post was submitted on 05 May 2025
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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.
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
Can I guess that the American amoral capitalist company won’t have transferred my Skype credit?
I had like $9.22 remaining credit from some international calls back in 2002 I was going to use...eventually.
Skype you later!
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"
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I actually had a Skype phone back in the days
IMO Skype to this day has the best emojis.
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.
Still working as of 4 hours ago, saw my friend using it, might be business version though.