Skype and the Incredible Power of Persistent Group Chats

[danyork]

http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2010/12/skype-and-the-incredible-power-of-persistent-group-chats.html

[moe]

I agree with the skype praise in general. We use it in similar ways and it indeed does a a nice job most of the time.

What this article fails to mention, though, is Skype's absolutely atrocious handling of multiple concurrent clients (e.g. Desktop, Laptop and Phone, in parallel).

Once a second client is connected it's effectively undefined when and if portions of chat-histories and missed messages will be (re)sent. "Unreliable" would be an understatement here, as messages will come in at random times and in random order - and sometimes not at all.

I really wonder why the supposed #1 Business-Messenger is not fixing such a fundamental issue.

[randall]

I tend to use PartyChapp in a similar way, but with GTalk.

http://partychapp.appspot.com

It's pretty great. It creates persistant rooms for Jabber/Google Talk. I'm a big fan.

[evanwolf]

skype's p2p keeps you current even after you come back from online. with a dose of encryption.