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What went wrong with Skype? (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Wasn't Skype the best audio/video protocol at the time? Everything else around it was terrible, but I remember that skype was the only voice call software that worked well for me on shitty connection back in the day.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    My memory says that both vent and teamspeak were way better for audio, but this was also a time where no one had a mic remotely close to the average you get today. Video, yes. But skype was really buggy and often did not even work

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    But skype was really buggy and often did not even work

    Could you please specify the time of such assessment? Because somewhere between 2009 and 2012 Skype seemed flawless for me (of course, with ICQ before it I just didn't know what's reliable offline messages and message history, so there's that).

    Voice calls worked well enough over like 45kbps. Leaving space for online game traffic (I think it was something like Burden of Crown over Hamachi, not too demanding). Of course my memory might make the experience cooler than it really was.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's so long ago that my memory might fail me. Skype didn't need a hosted server and that made it accessible.

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