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[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 111 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Skype died years ago. It was awful and rarely worked.

[–] KernelTale@programming.dev 41 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Only after Microsoft bought it tho

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 26 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Yep, I was literally coming in to say that Skype was trashed the instant Microsoft bought it.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 7 points 2 days ago

The merge with the Microsoft account was never done properly and it means I've got like 3 different accounts that don't fully work with Skype, Teams or whatever else you need Microsoft for.

Good thing I rarely need any of them

[–] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 days ago

It was so good before then

[–] LedgeDrop@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

... and that was the last Linux version of Skype.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

I was trying to figure that out to. The original thing really got messed up. I swear you did not really need an account of any kind originally.

[–] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It was decent on computers but they never managed to make a good mobile app. And then Microsoft made it much worse on computers.

My god the unoptimized background pushing shit would just destroy my battery.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 days ago

It was actually a really slick IM client for like a hot minute.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

It was awful and rarely worked.

You may have confused it with Lync, the product derived from MSCommunicator and renamed Skype4biz.

Regular skype was awesome; less so after MS swapped P2P for C2S but meh. Still better than teams, which, ironically, is where skype4biz went.