Skype weirdness

[Ed]

Another two days have gone past and Skype is just dead. Is it the warmer weather?

[Auxilia]

I think Skype is headed for the dustbin – Skype for Business was discontinued ages ago – everyone I know seems to use either Zoom, Discord, MS Teams or Teamspeak to fill the various functions.  The last time I used Skype was over a year ago for some role-playing gaming with old uni friends!

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[Ed]

Skype for Business became Teams. Teams is the market leader in the business world with 270 million active users.

I’ve never heard of Teamspeak. I do use Discord but it isn’t great. I’ve only used Zoom once and the livechat didn’t work. My kids’ school used it for parents’ evenings during the pandemic but dropped it after a few months due to reliability issues. They moved over to Teams instead. Skype has an even bigger active userbase than Teams (300 million use it per month and 4 billion registered).

Skype’s the one I use to keep in touch with family overseas and my local GP surgery uses it for video consultations (I don’t have any experience of those).

[Ed]

I’ve still got almost zero activity on Skype and those long term members who went silent are still silent and not getting my messages.

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