Skype is sun setting

[plloyd1010]

For those who haven't heard, Microsoft pulling the plug on Skype. The last functional day is April 30th.
(Coincidentally, the same day my property taxes are due.)

Microsoft wants to switch everyone to Teams. Having used it in a corporate environment, I think Teams is a bit sucky, especially for individual use. Of course that's me. Looking at alternatives, I've settled on 2 candidates, Viber and Discord. Situationally, it looks like I will be trying Discord first.

Regardless, be ready. The end is near.

[Schoenwulf]

I don't know about Viber, but Discord works great. I use it for audio with two other game series (along with Vassal), and have not had any issues. In fact, I believe that it is better than Skype anyhow and uses less bandwidth.

[goosebrown]

I use teams at work, and indeed it sucks. I have the personal version downloaded, I don't even really want to test it. I've been doing a lot of gaming online in the last six months and I think Discord is probably the most difficult program I've ever tried to use since the original version of Mathematica, trying to type a complex integral. (Sorry Wolf!) However it works. And I think that's what most gamers use.


I have had good luck also with believe it or not, Facebook. Doing chats on Facebook messenger. I have also used Google meets and frankly that's quite brilliant and it works in the browser so it's no more downloaded stuff. I would definitely recommend giving it a try if discord is not up your alley

[Col. Sonichu]

I suggest google meets and zoom. I’ve used them both professionally and for personal stuff. Tread and I had a google meet this past weekend.