Skype - The Rise and Fall?

Has Skype fallen? They were the original online video communication service, yet today are seen as just one of many options. This video talks about their rise and potential fall in three distinct stages.

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Company Declines:

[Jacob-zmcu]

honestly discord really killed skype for the gaming community

[DVX_BELLORVM]

I feel like the Coronavirus pandemic offered the perfect opportunity for Skype to become essential in business and education. Instead, Zoom swallowed up all that traffic.

[danestyn]

I'm still waiting for "Zoom: the rise and fall"

[theataripunk]

Y'all remember Oovoo? Or is it just me? I remember it was big when I was in middle school, and some teachers even offered to provide assistance through Oovoo calls. I believe Oovoo reached it's popularity spike just before Skype did, and then later replaced Oovoo for me and everyone else I knew.

[TaigaAisaka]

The good old days when you were skyping with friends while playing minecraft

[aeriumfour]

The true Skype experience:
"Why is my pc slow?, I've only got 2 Chrome tabs, and Word ope... oh, Skype process is running..."

[theskoob]

It went wrong with Microsoft, specifically just the association. Microsoft has a habit of forcing their products over third party. Look at how they shove first IE now Edge. Force Cortana. Forced MSN Messenger. Even just forcing updates. You can't do a fresh install of Windows without now signing into a Microsoft account and guess what automatically installs and prompts you to create an account... Skype. For people like myself that hate, but have to live with Microsoft, that just gave us the bad association.

[russianbot]

i stopped using skype when
1) the interface began having tons of dead space between text in chat, a feature that seemed copied from facebook messenger, and which i despised there too.
and 2) they stopped keeping logs on the client side beyond like two months or so? drove me into a blind fucking rage when i realised. i used it to hatch ideas to write stories with a friend. the silent discontinuation of permanent logs meant i couldn't rely on those logs for details, which i found out after losing a fair amount of stuff to the void. i uninstalled it within 15 minutes of finding this out and have never used it again (and would never use it again)
2a) they also discontinued skype classic which avoided all of this bullshit

[alexmay]

It has been 5 years since I switched from skype to discord, that end tone hit me with a rush of nostalgia, I used to get home from 6th grade every day to play Minecraft with my friends on skype.

[msthalamus]

One big thing you didn't mention is that in 2003 most people were still paying by the minute to talk to people over the phone who lived even in a different city. Young people today don't know that it used to be expensive to call your fried who moved across the country. Skype was one of the first viable solutions to come along that made it possible to keep in touch using more than just text without breaking the bank. It was in the right place at the right time.

[pika_link]

2021 kids:

“What’s Skype?”, “I think he means Zoom.” “Yeah you’er right.”

[aubreyh]

God hearing the call music hurt more than I thought it would. Miss those days

[GarbageDayProductions]

I started with Skype but as soon as discord came onto the scene it answered any and all issues me and my friends had with Skype. Skype always gave us technical issues and wasn't as efficient in its UI meanwhile discord offered little to no technical difficulties, multiple text and voice channels on a server, and custom emotes that made things feel more personal and fun. Plus Microsoft has a tendency to force their products on their users so I know a lot that refuse to use Skype just cus their computer wouldn't delete the application or kept forcing it onto them when they didn't want to use the service in the first place

[AKHalex]

Why I stopped using Skype: Microsoft bought it. Ads everywhere, stupid Microsoft accounts, Skype was forced onto my Windows PC and so on. I just started hating it. Then people went to Discord and I followed.

[Elilybee]

As a PhD student, the only time I use Skype is when I'm talking to my 57 year old supervisor

[Deimosthegreat]

The service was pretty reliable for me, up until Microsoft bought it. After that I had constant issues with disconnects and messages not going through. It was just such a hassle I switched to another messenger service.

[TheBoostedDoge]

*The Skype experience.*
_Based on true events_
Person 1: Hi can you hear me?
Person 2: what?? Your bre- up
Person 1: what?
*Repeat for the next 10 minutes or so*

[franciscovalle]

"More complex yet less reliable" - Me going into adulthood.

[kylefunderburk]

This would have been a really interesting video just a few months later when people switched to online learning and working from home. If the COVID-19 pandemic happened five years ago, Skype would have surely been to go-to for everyone. Instead, it was an afterthought in 2020.

[felixband]

"Last online: 2348 days ago."
;-;