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Skype Gives In: Group Video Chat Now Free, Like Hangouts

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Great News (Score: 2, Interesting)

by rocks@pipedot.org on 2014-04-28 18:09 (#17X)

I actually paid for Skype for group video chat... and I joined GooglePlus for Hangouts...

Personally, I would prefer to pay Skype than have to join a Social Network, but this is the pressure of modern collaboration, you have to go where your colleagues are or you just look ludite.

Maybe this means I won't need to renew my Skype subscription to retain this feature. Unfortunately, they had it set up on auto-renew when I signed up, so I will have to check my preferences, which is something I frequently forget to check... thanks for the heads up in any case

Re: Great News (Score: 1)

by rocks@pipedot.org on 2014-04-28 18:14 (#17Y)

Just checked my account, I appear to have auto-received a Skype Premium promotion until early 2015, interesting...

Re: Great News (Score: 1)

by rocks@pipedot.org on 2014-04-28 18:16 (#17Z)

Previously, I've never modded my own posts up -- now they get a 1 automatically immediately upon posting? Is that expected behaviour? Maybe I haven't been paying attention...

Re: Great News (Score: 3, Informative)

by songofthepogo@pipedot.org on 2014-04-28 18:54 (#181)

A change was made a couple of weeks back to raise the default moderation score of non-AC posters to 1. It's a new-ish development, but so many additional things have evolved on Pipedot in the interim that it feels like it happened quite a while ago.

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Time Reason Points Voter
2014-04-28 19:55 Informative +1 genkernel@pipedot.org
2014-04-29 10:18 Informative +1 vanderhoth@pipedot.org

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