cm0002@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoWhat went wrong with Skype?www.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up1138arrow-down17
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minus-squareKiernian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 days agoOriginal pre-microsoft Skype was not AS bloaty. It ran on my underpowered PC at the time with no issues. Several patches/versions/whatever after Ms gutted the p2p aspect and centralized the servers, it slowed waaaaaay the hell down. Make of that anecdotal evidence what you will.
minus-squareSynopsisTantilize@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoI did use Skype until 2010. It was rough on an Intel atom netbook lol. And the. Again on a 3rd gen i7 mobile. And again on a 4th gen desktop. All the way through I’ve had the opposite experience.
Original pre-microsoft Skype was not AS bloaty. It ran on my underpowered PC at the time with no issues.
Several patches/versions/whatever after Ms gutted the p2p aspect and centralized the servers, it slowed waaaaaay the hell down.
Make of that anecdotal evidence what you will.
I did use Skype until 2010. It was rough on an Intel atom netbook lol. And the. Again on a 3rd gen i7 mobile. And again on a 4th gen desktop. All the way through I’ve had the opposite experience.