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Skype is an instant messaging app that provides online text message and video chat services. Users may transmit both text and video messages and may exchange digital documents such as images, text, and video. Skype allows video conference calls.

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Skype Issues Reports

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  • dyingmathmajor
    Martine 🌺 (@dyingmathmajor) reported

    @business Instead of trying to acquire Discord, @Microsoft should try to fix its Teams feature (and Skype).

  • Generalkidd
    Generalkidd 🏳️‍🌈 (@Generalkidd) reported

    @KevinKoolxHalo @Hayden_G230 Actually Skype is pretty well integrated with Xbox and it's a very good alternative whenever party chat is down or having issues. But yeah Skype could've been so much more.

  • whiskeynt
    whiskeynt (@whiskeynt) reported

    @AttackOfTheAfro Remember you said that. They've been tryin to shove that **** down our throats for years. Now they'll **** up discord and call it the new skype. Just watch.

  • Capp00
    Capp00 (@Capp00) reported

    @theurparanoid Probably. I just don't want all the banner ads and ****** audio, just like when they took over skype. Man, I used skype for everything back in the day. Then it turned into a **** and now I can't even login because I have on idea what MS account they created for it.

  • imperialflame
    Imperium (@imperialflame) reported

    @Slasher No thanks. I've been using discord almost every day for over 4 years now. I'd rather not have the platform fall victim to Microsoft's terrible management like they did with Skype and Mixer.

  • LadenHard
    Laden (@LadenHard) reported

    @RZ_172 @Slasher Skype is bad for general users, but it was really good for companies, for a really huge time frame, and it was where the money was. Google just kills every project, or abandons it, and having everything linked to a gmail account is terrible

  • ReiTheWeretiger
    Tanner (@ReiTheWeretiger) reported

    @cactaur Plus they already own Skype. Why do the need two of pretty much the same service.

  • ne0n1nja247
    Ne0n1nja247 (@ne0n1nja247) reported

    @GamingEthos They literally already ****** up one app we used. I'm gucci on this. They finna have us streaming through Facebook Messenger. How bout they Fix Skype instead of just Doing what they did to Mixer and Just buying **** and then never innovating past what they paid for.

  • ekowrestling88
    eko (@ekowrestling88) reported

    @foxyfrehley Mfs gonna try and make it into Skype. Their app so dead they gotta go buy and ruin apps, they down bad

  • StormGryphon
    Storm the 😷 = ❤️ Gryphon (@StormGryphon) reported

    @NoxyBurd They have Skype already... If they had properly upgraded and marketed it we wouldn't have stuff like Zoom But they will probably end up buying Discord because they have the cash and will put it under their empire. May help. May not. Depends on how they fund it.

  • ZuldaFTW
    Citizen97 (@ZuldaFTW) reported

    @Microsoft stay away from @discord, Skype was just terrible

  • sheromeaw
    Sherome (@sheromeaw) reported

    @AndaIus @business MS has been wanting to acquire Discord for the longest since the service practically killed their own service Skype.

  • tokkanram
    Rob M. | Tokkan (@tokkanram) reported

    Microsoft clumsily merging Skype and MSN messenger into a single service ended up being a massive failure. To be wary of the very idea of Microsoft buying Discord is a smart position to take.

  • Gathering_Blues
    Blues! (@Gathering_Blues) reported

    @Nayomiboo @discord My main issue with when skype was bought by Michaelsoft was having to deal with the stupid ads popping up in every call

  • thomasjcelles
    Thomas J Celles (@thomasjcelles) reported

    @RyanPWright @StarboyFiFi First Skype now discord 😔 they’re sniping everyone to shove Teams down our throat

  • ColiverXYZ
    Coliver, Winter's Envoy (@ColiverXYZ) reported

    @Microsoft buying @Discord probably wouldn't be the end of the world but they have an awful track record with this stuff. In 2011 Microsoft bought Skype and integrated it into their own popular chat service (MSN Messenger). Skype went downhill after that and its a joke now.

  • TheToj0
    Toj0 (@TheToj0) reported

    @surfacage But they would exactly do that. Its exactly what happened to skype, they tried to homegenize it without fixing fundemental problems. And we already have MS Teams its called Slack

  • edenadyk
    🦌 Origameden 🦌 (@edenadyk) reported

    the biggest problem with alternatives is that you absolutely need a ton more useful features that the thing you're making an alternative for doesn't have (like discord compared to skype) or else it will be irrelevant

  • Lee_Morgan7
    1 New Notification (@Lee_Morgan7) reported

    @tha_rami skype is being shut down in july

  • gc_arilin
    Arilin Thorferra (@gc_arilin) reported

    @SalameleonAD @conejitogigante I don't think it's going to go the way of Skype; as Conejito's mentioned, very different folks running MSFT now, and they're more likely to treat it like GitHub. I *doubt* they'll kill the standalone service, either; Discord's consciously broadened past gamers recently.

  • TryhardTechy
    TryhardTechy (@TryhardTechy) reported

    @discord i just heard about the proposition by Microsoft to buy you out. as a long time user of discord and former user of skype there is no comparison as to how much better discord is. please for the love of everything good and all of us users turn Microsoft down! save discord!

  • TechnoGhost2124
    🍩TechnoGhost2124 (@TechnoGhost2124) reported

    @meansary321 Yea it was mostly advertising for their video chat service when Zoom started to boom either way rip Skype

  • Eon1One
    Marlön (@Eon1One) reported

    @simplygastly Well as far as I am aware skype is doing pretty well, it's tech is being used access all of MS and it's a very popular Customizable service for Telepresence in the business industry also Teams = Skype v2 but not named so.

  • Ayetlee17
    H. I. Lee {Ayet} (@Ayetlee17) reported

    @cloro_2nd Skype shut down and replace with MFST

  • pastelpazora
    pastel paz (@pastelpazora) reported

    real talk if microsoft buys discord ima delete it from the computer as a whole lmaoooo discord already constantly has issues for me (esp with streaming), why would i stick around after I was already there for what they did to skype

  • CudaCoreRoo
    CudaCore - Cₒₒₖᵢₑₛ (@CudaCoreRoo) reported

    If Microsoft actually buys Discord that's the definition of having money but no brains. They had Skype monopolized for years, lost out as soon as competition came up, and for all the money they're worth they couldn't fix their own platform. **** off Microsoft.

  • therealretsam
    therleastmsa (@therealretsam) reported

    @rezzxd @Slasher microsoft ruined skype and everyone stopped using it microsoft ruined mixer by shutting it down shortly after getting it

  • faustreaper
    Faust (@faustreaper) reported

    @ArilynaMusic like skype i never had any trouble with it, but why not. of the 3 name of the article is the only one that basically does the hardware console

  • ShaddyyD
    Shaddy (@ShaddyyD) reported

    @GILx87 @business Thats what everyone initially thought when microsoft acquired skype back in the day, but they literally ruined the app and service into the ground, then discord was made and everyone moved over there.

  • Generalkidd
    Generalkidd 🏳️‍🌈 (@Generalkidd) reported

    @CoolKidJoeXBL @XcloudTimdog Well to be fair, Skype was used to replace MSN Messenger and is now used in enterprise in the form of Teams which evolved from Skype for Business. It's also available on Xbox as an alternative to party chat whenever that's down or unavailable.