Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype

Re:Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryp... by drdaeman on Thursday January 11, 2018 @12:59PM (#16126027)

Design? UX? I'd wish those are the only issues with Skype. If really necessary, can tolerate ugliest of the designs, if it works. Problem is, it doesn't.

It loses messages at random. Sometimes it fails to send (I was really angry when I had an important call, and my "Hey, I'm here, let's start" got stuck in "Sending..." forever - thankfully, web.skype.com worked. That message made it through only the next day.) Sometimes it fails to receive - someone asks me why I'm not responding and I check the messages and don't see anything.

And those "sometimes" are not once in a blue moon, but every other month (if not worse).

Unfortunately, suggestions to use something else are not really working so I've stopped trying. Everyone seems to hate Skype, everyone I've asked had recognized it barely works and is frequently unreliable, but almost everyone I know still sticks to it. :(

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Re:Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryp... by BadassFractal on Thursday January 11, 2018 @01:04PM (#16126084)

Or the desktop client on OSX keeps asking for admin privileges to install some helper tool every other day, with no explanation for why that's necessary.

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Re:Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryp... by thenipper on Thursday January 11, 2018 @01:08PM (#16126126)

That helper tool maxes my cpu every time I’m on a call. It’s amazingly terrible.

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Re:Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryp... by BadassFractal on Thursday January 11, 2018 @01:25PM (#16126346)

I'm just assuming I'm getting hacked by North Korea every time I say yes to it.

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