Microsoft is doing a service to all of us by destroying Skype. Nobody should use it anyway from the moment MS has bought it with sole purpose of handing data over to NSA&Friends.
Wanna code an alternative then
Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client
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Re: Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client
#122What I don’t understand is - Why is there not a serious competitor to Skype?
If there was a cross-platform Skype clone that worked on OSX, Linux, Windows, iOS and Android that was stable and secure - the whole world would jump onto it. All it has to do is not be a bloated piece of crap like Skype.
Instead, everything else out there is fragmented.
We’re all waiting, get on it already!
Re: Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client
#123I'm surprised people still even use Skype, I went really down hill around 5 or so years ago. It's slow, bulky, closed source and it has been disclosed by Edward Snowden and Wikileaks to have ties directly into the prism program with the NSA.
Re: Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client
#124Sounds like great justification for my business contacts why I cannot have a voice call in Skype with them. Could anybody please give a link to official bugreport or serious announcement about breakage of calls?
User of XMPP (Jabber) with transport to Skype.
Re: Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client
#125They might be pushing users away from the Linux/Mac apps towads an online version of skype. Which is actually the easiest way to use their service, when you absolutely have to.
Re: Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client
#126Skype worked far, far better 10 years ago than it does today. From all indications I've seen, Skype is getting dramatically worse all the time. From a personal standpoint, it crashes for me multiple times a day and I can rarely get group calls working on the first try. Often Skype requires a force-quit and then it crashes twice more when it is being restarted. This is on Mac and Android. Fun fact: I have a friend who…
In the past year, the Mac client has also become very fragile. If I quit the Skype App without signing out, next time login keeps failing unless I go to the library folder and delete my Skype user profile directory. Quite shameful for such a high profile software.
I do have my own suspicions that a certain company deliberately degrades the quality of any software they release for platforms other than their own.
Re: Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client
#127Would've retweeted if it wasn't for the #thanksBill hashtag... I haven't been on Windoze since I don't know how long. And the Mac Client is superb. Linux client, absolute desaster, indeed. But still, this has absolutely nothing to do with Bill.
Absolutely!
And to be honest, the Linux client disgrace predates Microsoft take over.
Re: Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client
#128Skype worked far, far better 10 years ago than it does today. From all indications I've seen, Skype is getting dramatically worse all the time. From a personal standpoint, it crashes for me multiple times a day and I can rarely get group calls working on the first try. Often Skype requires a force-quit and then it crashes twice more when it is being restarted. This is on Mac and Android. Fun fact: I have a friend who…
And when someone tries to innovate in this live group chat space, they get bought out[0]. I doubt we'll see the features of Talko in Skyp any time soon, and I expect whatever creative buzz they had going over at Talko will surely be killed by the forced reintegration into the Microsoft bureaucracy. [0] http://www.talko.com/
They /let themselves be bought out/; big difference there. If their ideology was to create a proper Skype competitor, they wouldn't go for the 'quick buck' / become millionaires overnight.
Re: Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client
#129Skype worked far, far better 10 years ago than it does today. From all indications I've seen, Skype is getting dramatically worse all the time. From a personal standpoint, it crashes for me multiple times a day and I can rarely get group calls working on the first try. Often Skype requires a force-quit and then it crashes twice more when it is being restarted. This is on Mac and Android. Fun fact: I have a friend who…
In the past year, the Mac client has also become very fragile. If I quit the Skype App without signing out, next time login keeps failing unless I go to the library folder and delete my Skype user profile directory. Quite shameful for such a high profile software.
0 problems for me...
Re: Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client
#130MacOS is also a competidor and I don't have any issues with it neither Skype has stopped updating the app.