Skype closes on May 2025

[dartraiden]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2025/02/28/the-next-chapter-moving-from-skype-to-microsoft-teams/

You can download history from the server to Miranda by right-clicking on a contact and selecting the appropriate menu item.

Please note that this will only download files whose size does not exceed that specified in "Settings → Events → File transfers → Download cloud files automatically only if their size is less than X kilobytes". If you want to download all files, set the setting to zero and clear the contact's history, then download the history again.

[PoloCocta]

Thank you for the instructions. Although I haven't used Skype for a long time, I'll sentimentally download the history. There are messages from my mom, who is no longer with us.

[TekWiz]

Well so far, today it totally quit staying online and won't pick up anything during the few seconds it seems online...

Also, any plans to update it to work with the Teams chat?

Thank you!

[dartraiden]

Maybe.

https://github.com/miranda-ng/miranda-ng/issues/4909

[TekWiz]

Cool, very interesting! I've heard of Pidgin before, it's been around for many years. So it's based on the libpurple library... 

[energizer01]

Hi. I have the same problem. Although I see people on Skype and can call, I see all the contact in Miranda as offline. I think it should be working till MS closes it. And I'd really be very happy for Teams support when it's a successor of Skype. I'm a happy Miranda user since about 2003 or something and really don't want to leave the best IM client. Thanx a lot.

[dartraiden]

Half of the requests fall on SSL handshake. If such an error happens in the contacts read request, then there will be no online contacts

We removed error checks at all otherwise the connection drops completely. But we have no idea how to fix it.

[energizer01]

Hi.Yeah now it connects, but I see only myself and no other one. :-)

[ivan1282ka]

"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!" (as in Dante)

Teams once had a free version. But then it ruthlessly became paid—no protests could stop it.
Who believes this won’t happen again? Of course it will! Besides, Microsoft doesn’t care about its users. If it did, it wouldn’t have killed Skype.
It wouldn’t even have shut down its own MSN Messenger.

Microsoft will only use its future messaging apps to force people to pay for upgrades and new versions of its spyware-filled Windows.

And so, perhaps we should focus our efforts on communication systems that can’t be bought or sold. Those that already exist—like Tox—or something entirely new?

P.S.
In case anyone has forgotten, the original creators of Skype sold us to Microsoft for money. A lot of money. And that could easily happen again with almost any communication system that is possible to buy.

P.P.S.
Do you remember! There was: AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Google talk,  MSN, GG not connecting since 2022, now SKYPE... There was...
It turns out that western "free" world will be gradually disallowed to communicate freely.
How ridiculous these Westerners are becoming, who pride themselves on being the product of artificial selection - like livestock, on being very well trained like circus animals and brainwashed to brilliance, and on being servants and lackeys of the global oligarchy. They will die for their masters.