You mean teams... No! You mean new teams! No! You mean teams for home use and teams for work! No! You mean new experience teams! Maybe you mean blue teams for use on a moving vehicle between 25 and 60mph on a Wednesday with the windows open while talking to exactly 2 or your close friends who are wearing blue blazers and jeans while drinking coffee but not from Starbucks at their house but not the bedroom and having their living rooms painted magenta in water color teams? Is it that teams? I'm a little confused as to what teams I'm using. I only use it at work because fuck no, I will never use it at home.
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Or, if it was named by users of Microsoft products:
New Teams (2) Final-Final (1) Final-THIS ONE
Skype? Wasn't this the buggy voice chat?
Yeah, for about a week. It's been awesome for the 20 years since. I've used it on some really shitty internet on a weekly-to-daily basis and I've only been amazed at its reliability.
So it stands to reason in 2025 America that we need to destroy something just because it works and works well.
You shoulda tried it. Too bad. It dynamically switched codecs based on congestion, it punched through nats like none before it; it just worked.
None of this "Skype in name" Lync mess.
That's fine I'll just use Lync.
I totally forgot it exists, meaning I thought it was already dead.
They killed it as soon as they acquired it.
It became a bloated pile of garbage after they bought it. Remember how horrible the app became with battery usage??
I remember when Skype first came out, when I was a teenager. I called a random guy in Japan; he was learning English, I wanted to learn Japanese (as is tradition for teenage anime fans). It was a very kind series of calls, and we talked a bit about Japanese culture too. He taught me, rather patiently, how to pronounce certain basic words properly.
It's a shame the service was treated like it has been. There was great potential in connecting people.
Wherever you are, random Japanese dude I forgot the name of, konbanwa!!
Who? Never heard of him
Ding dong the witch is dead
The bigger headline is "Skype hasn't been dead this whole time"
One of my clients is a small company that has been running with seven staff working from home, scattered around the globe, mostly rural. Since 1999. Everything has been held together by skype: chat, video, audio.
Should be interesting finding the right new workflow!
Thank goodness! My parents refuse to move the group chat to anything else.
I still use it to make international calls to family (it's my only use case for it). Does anyone know of a good replacement (preferably FOSS) that allows calling on landlines (yup, old people still use them)?
You can do this using JMP Chat, which bridges phone numbers to XMPP. Unfortunately, it's USA and Canada only, for now.
Alternatively, you can use a "SIP Trunk Provider". For instance, in the UK, Andrews and Arnold offers this service. You can then connect any compatible SIP client (e.g. Gnome Calls).
In the same boat. Not even just old people; I need to call 800 numbers but it would cost me a ton from Japan. Guess I'm doing that Monday night.
I don't think Skype numbers are supported as well anymore, but many people rely on services for their US banks and stuff for 2fa as well.
Not FOSS but you can check Google Voice and see if the pricing for the country you need to call is convenient
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