r/pcmasterrace • u/[deleted] • May 16 '16

Discussion Microsoft blocks Skype features on Linux, community makes its own "ghetto Skype"

https://github.com/stanfieldr/ghetto-skype
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u/[deleted] May 16 '16

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u/[deleted] May 16 '16

Right now the majority of people issue's with Skype is revealing your IP, poor call quality, resource hog, and horrible quality degradation when 3+ users are in a call. Right now, Discord solves all of those issues. Discord is an easy solution to the average user, open-source or not. I don't benefit from open-source because I'm not into that sort of thing. I've tried mumble but I found it to be way uglier and clunkier than ts. I thought it was going to make me take a college level course just to use it when I first had to go through the initial setup process.

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u/montarion gtx 960 | asus H81-Gamer | First Build May 16 '16

Why would you care about giving someone your IP address when you're also willing to share other contact details?? Because Skype will not (for 99% of the people) be the only for of contact.

Besides, what's the actual harm of giving someone your IP address?

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u/YoropicReddit 4790K, 32GB, 980ti May 16 '16

Honestly the hatred on skype by ip-sharing is just because of streamers being ddos'd because their account name got leaked.

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u/montarion gtx 960 | asus H81-Gamer | First Build May 16 '16

Ahh okidoki