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.

[TekWiz]

Thank you, very well said Ivan! In fact all these platforms had plenty of bugs and various problems. It's far better to use something that's free, open source and just works. For example these days with people I am close to, I just use Mumble to talk with them, I don't even use the phone anymore. Since I have VNC remote to their computers, I can set up whatever I want to use. I only use Skype with three people I remote support. But one problem is that two of them also use a mobile device to contact me sometimes, so any chat program would need to be available. Teams so far seems very similar to Skype so I just logged them into that for now. So Pidgin is developing some Teams plugin... So maybe they will modify it for Miranda...

[ivan1282ka]

Just to add that the presence of bugs is not a reason to discontinue the program. For example, if the presence of bugs was the reason for the discontinue of the program, then Windows would have gone  just after  Windows 98, and we would have already forgotten it. And it had some more failures after that: Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows 8.0... Isn't that enough? Not to mention the very hard termination of support for programs for windows XP.
Skype was a great program... Until before Microsoft bought it. And after microsoft bought it, the bugs began to grow systematically. As a result, most of my contacts abandoned skype. And not even because of the bugs, but because of the new owner.
Here is ICQ - the first chat program I have ever used - ICQ was not discontinued due to bugs. ICQ was almost dead because it had gone too far with advertising. Then it got a new life for a while after it was bought by Russia. And it finally died only after the war, because the collective West began to actively block it. ICQ died not because of bugs, but because of CENSORSHIP! Hypocritically imposed by the collective West.
the notorious Western hypocrisy.
This hypocrisy will cover up the real reason for the cessation with some base lies that would only be accepted as truth by totally brain-controlled zombies.
Note, brainwashing to shine is no longer enough. In modern days, things have gone much further! They have reached total brain control!
Creatures who are under the  brain control are doomed. I deliberately say creatures, not people, because man until some time ago had free will, which ceased with the reign of total brain control. And this way man grow no longer man but just a creature.
They are doomed because there is no slavery heavier than the slavery of a slave who thinks he is free. And his greatest happiness is to be able to consume "freely".
Cheers to freedom!