Ask HN: Alternative to Skype?

Posted by aledalgrande on Thursday August 29, 2019 @11:29PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Related to the other Skype thread (not supporting Firefox).

If Microsoft is cutting down on Skype and possibly going to kill it, I need to replace it. I still find it useful to chat with family overseas, share my screen or call international landline numbers. Is there anything else that does that on the market and works well on Mac/iOS?

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Re:Ask HN: Alternative to Skype? by maverick74 on Friday August 30, 2019 @05:38PM (#20842963)

If you change the userAgent to Chrome it will work.

Add-ons such as Lider's Custom useragent ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/custom-user-a... ) solves the problem

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Re:Ask HN: Alternative to Skype? by derrick_jensen on Thursday August 29, 2019 @11:33PM (#20835771)

Tox works pretty well, but it isn't too popular

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Re:Ask HN: Alternative to Skype? by maverick74 on Friday August 30, 2019 @05:45PM (#20843014)

Yes, tox is great and you can have multiple clients, from regular software, like qTox, to web versions.

Jami is also very nice!

Both have an amazing plus side: they are distributed systems.

It's a shame they are not that used by "our friends"

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Re:Ask HN: Alternative to Skype? by kbn on Thursday August 29, 2019 @11:49PM (#20835844)

My personal favorite is Zoom

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