I prefer IRC instead of Skype.
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Skype down. Again.
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Re: Skype down. Again.
#12If you use Skype's services extensively even before Microsoft came along, you would have noticed a lot of bugs (I know I did, and their support was meh), but they try. I would like to blame Microsoft for this, but I don't have any solid evidence to do so. A lot of business's rely on Skype, so for them to just go out and say sorry is kind of bullshit. Where are the backup systems. There must be some process put it int…
Well until that major outage, I don't know how much infrastructure skype was running. I recall something about supernodes (or super super?) that they would be hosting to prevent these cascading failures. The whole P2P nature was the clever trick, not sure how much more data centers will actually help when it's software bugs that seem to take the system down.
Re: Skype down. Again.
#13If you use Skype's services extensively even before Microsoft came along, you would have noticed a lot of bugs (I know I did, and their support was meh), but they try. I would like to blame Microsoft for this, but I don't have any solid evidence to do so. A lot of business's rely on Skype, so for them to just go out and say sorry is kind of bullshit. Where are the backup systems. There must be some process put it int…
Well until that major outage, I don't know how much infrastructure skype was running. I recall something about supernodes (or super super?) that they would be hosting to prevent these cascading failures. The whole P2P nature was the clever trick, not sure how much more data centers will actually help when it's software bugs that seem to take the system down.
They've spun up "mega-supernodes," when cascading failures have taken the network down before[1], but they don't need to run them full-time, just when traffic is such that the traditional supernodes can't handle the traffic of a new network.
Re: Skype down. Again.
#14Are there any alternatives worth exploring? Has anyone used Oovoo? (not affiliated in any way, just curious)
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Skype was reclassified by kids from "awesome software" to "proprietary crap" as soon as Microsoft bought it.
I was hating on Skype way before it was cool. ("What, SIP? It's a pretty obscure protocol; you probably haven't heard of it.")
Try IAX/IAX2, a NAT-transparent VoIP protocol.
Re: Skype down. Again.
#16If you use Skype's services extensively even before Microsoft came along, you would have noticed a lot of bugs (I know I did, and their support was meh), but they try. I would like to blame Microsoft for this, but I don't have any solid evidence to do so. A lot of business's rely on Skype, so for them to just go out and say sorry is kind of bullshit. Where are the backup systems. There must be some process put it int…
Microsoft has not acquired Skype yet, so it doesn't make sense to try and blame them.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm getting really sick of the stupid Microsoft remarks. I'm a Mac / Apple guy through and through, but it's just so annoying all the people saying things are going to shit the second M$ gets them, even though when the problem obviously has nothing to do with M$.
I know it's an annoying 90s in-joke, but let's be honest, these instability problems did start happening weeks after Microsoft bought the company. It might not be what trolls suggest but it's certainly some coincidence..!
The instability problems like the major downtime in December, 5 months before Microsoft bought them?
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know it's an annoying 90s in-joke, but let's be honest, these instability problems did start happening weeks after Microsoft bought the company. It might not be what trolls suggest but it's certainly some coincidence..!
The instability problems like the major downtime in December, 5 months before Microsoft bought them?
I don't remember that. I use it at work and I've only noticed that there have been a lot more instability problems over the last month. Previous to that it's felt rock-solid to me...
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#19Are there any alternatives worth exploring? Has anyone used Oovoo? (not affiliated in any way, just curious)
have you tried PSTN?