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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by rspeer on Thursday March 08, 2018 @01:42AM (#16542768)
Yeah, a feature set doesn't matter if the features are bad. I would never want to use Skype as a platform for an ongoing text chat. (Does Skype even have persistent channels?)

Also now that Discord exists, I would never do a voice chat in Skype either. A substantial portion of every Skype call I've ever been on was people apologizing to each other for the bad audio. Discord apparently just has better signal processing.

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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by Jaruzel on Thursday March 08, 2018 @03:06AM (#16543049)
> Does Skype even have persistent channels?

Skype for Business does. But... not the Azure/Cloud version; you have to host it on-site, and MS are rapidly replacing Skype with the less feature rich (if that's even possible!) 'MS Teams'.

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