Skype contact lists may have been exposed (2017)

Re:Skype contact lists may have been exposed (2017) by newsbinator on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @06:49AM (#19152338)

After 15 years as a customer, yesterday was the last day of my last Skype subscription.

So long to the random designs, dropping calling features, horrible connections and barely-human customer support. You won't get another penny from me unless/until you do a 180.

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Re:Skype contact lists may have been exposed (2017) by x3tm on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @09:55AM (#19153515)

What's the alternative service you're going to use now?

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Re:Skype contact lists may have been exposed (2017) by newsbinator on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @09:34PM (#19159195)

Surprisingly: Viber. Viber Out works great for calling out to 50 countries, and most text communication is on eMail/Slack/iMessage/etc

It's been a few days of Viber and already I see several pluses:

* Putting a call on speaker takes one tap and doesn't hang my phone, unlike Skype which pops up the native iOS sound output device chooser for some reason.

* Easy to see call history & times under a given contact (Skype did a weird center-aligned thing that made the information super-difficult for human eyes to parse)

* Easy to edit contact name info (Skype made this like 5 menus deep)

* Easy to set/remove contacts as favorites (Skype hid this somewhere new every few weeks)

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