News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B. Parent comment

Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by criddell on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @08:21AM (#26554168)
Keep in mind that before Microsoft bought it, Skype could make direct P2P connections with outstanding fidelity. If they buy Discord, I wouldn't expect it to stay great.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by xxs on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @09:01AM (#26554461)
>Skype could make direct P2P connections with outstanding fidelity

I used to be absolutely in awe of the technology Skype had... got bought for $8+B back then and Microsoft managed to ruin the p2p part and stability/latency of the calls

[ Parent | on HN ]