Skype contact lists may have been exposed (2017)

Re:Skype contact lists may have been exposed (2017) by vardump on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @03:02AM (#19151297)

Not to mention Skype is also getting slower and slooower. Voice latency has increased from what it used to be before Microsoft. Can't send large files directly anymore. It recompresses sent images destroying the quality. Video call image quality is low, nowhere near HD even with gigabit internet. Memory consumption has ballooned.

Desktop Skype: No more narrow width chat windows, so useful for preserving desktop space. Very bad use of space for chats. Find feature is unusably slow for large chat logs. Even selecting another chat contact has noticeable latency before window contents update!

I think I could just go on and on. It's horrible. I seriously need a replacement.

I can think of just one thing that has improved: online/away indication is more reliable now.

It's so sad what Microsoft has done to Skype. I wonder if this is a some kind of experiment how bad the product can be before long time users switch.

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Re:Skype contact lists may have been exposed (2017) by toper-centage on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @03:40AM (#19151480)

On the other hand, Google makes great chat products, polishes then for years, then discontinues them. Everyone's crazy.

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Re:Skype contact lists may have been exposed (2017) by vardump on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @03:44AM (#19151497)

> Everyone's crazy.

Indeed.

None of the chat messaging platforms interoperate. Chat should be like email, but everyone just wants to push their proprietary app consuming battery power and storage.

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Re:Skype contact lists may have been exposed (2017) by adrianN on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @04:04AM (#19151576)

The golden age of chat was back when you could use one client to talk to all your friends despite them being on ICQ, AIM, MSN, IRC or half a dozen smaller networks.

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Re:Skype contact lists may have been exposed (2017) by vardump on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @04:06AM (#19151586)

Trillian! It was nice to use a single client for ICQ, MSN and others.

Universal availability and plain one-to-one & group chat removes most of the issues. Less important to support things like file transfer, voice chat, etc.

Who could combine Skype, WhatsApp, FaceTime, Hangouts, Discord, Microsoft Teams/Skype for Business, etc. and do it in such a fashion I can trust it.

Damn, I don't like government regulation, and when it comes to chat I'm frankly scared — I don't think they could resist the urge of adding backdoors in the process. But who else could put some pressure on the vendors to get these things to interoperate?

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Re:Skype contact lists may have been exposed (2017) by wlesieutre on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @09:02AM (#19153116)

Adium for the Mac folks! The website is still there (https://adium.im/) but the version history page is an error and the product blurb talks about AIM support, so I'm guessing it's dead.

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Re:Skype contact lists may have been exposed (2017) by shawnz on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @07:45AM (#19152596)

Chat will never be interoperable because then vendors wouldn't be able to introduce their own exclusive emojis or GIFs or stories or whatever other nonsense.

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Re:Skype contact lists may have been exposed (2017) by anoncake on Thursday February 14, 2019 @09:13AM (#19161959)

Chat will never be interoperable as long as it's controlled by for-profit companies.

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Re:Skype contact lists may have been exposed (2017) by egeozcan on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @03:59AM (#19151550)

I think this is the craziest part. Got fed up with your client? Well, you should wait until all your important contacts are fed up with it as well.

I can't believe I have to use a client as bad as Skype.

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Re:Skype contact lists may have been exposed (2017) by mtnGoat on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @03:48AM (#19151508)

I thought they were yet undecided on killing hangouts? They've been dragging their feet on finalizing a data for sunset.

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Re:Skype contact lists may have been exposed (2017) by Tor3 on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @06:15AM (#19152190)

The single thing I use Skype for, still, is calling phone numbers. Because their support for that has much better coverage than anyone else, world-wide. And the Skype-in number my wife has works reasonably well too. For everything else (talk, video chat, files, albums, groups, etc. etc. etc) I don't use Skype.

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