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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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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.
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🦌 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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Thomas J Celles
(@thomasjcelles) reported
@RyanPWright @StarboyFiFi First Skype now discord 😔 they’re sniping everyone to shove Teams down our throat
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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.
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Tanner
(@ReiTheWeretiger) reported
@cactaur Plus they already own Skype. Why do the need two of pretty much the same service.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Sherome
(@sheromeaw) reported
@AndaIus @business MS has been wanting to acquire Discord for the longest since the service practically killed their own service Skype.
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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.
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therleastmsa
(@therealretsam) reported
@rezzxd @Slasher microsoft ruined skype and everyone stopped using it microsoft ruined mixer by shutting it down shortly after getting it
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YaChief
(@YaChief_) reported
If @discord gets bought by @Microsoft we all know it's going to go down hill. Y'all remember how skype went to ****? Yeah I hope discord doesn't go down that route.
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H. I. Lee {Ayet}
(@Ayetlee17) reported
@cloro_2nd Skype shut down and replace with MFST
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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.
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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
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Martine 🌺
(@dyingmathmajor) reported
@business Instead of trying to acquire Discord, @Microsoft should try to fix its Teams feature (and Skype).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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🍩TechnoGhost2124
(@TechnoGhost2124) reported
@meansary321 Yea it was mostly advertising for their video chat service when Zoom started to boom either way rip Skype
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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
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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.
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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.
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🌻 Springtime Tones 🌻
(@tonycaline) reported
can't use ANY type of communication service, for business or otherwise, because when somebody gets big enough, microsoft just buys it and rips it apart goodbye to MSN, goodbye to Skype, and now potentially goodby to Discord yall @discord trust me, the $$ aint worth it, c'mon
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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!