Skype has a pretty awful UI for chats. If you get people set up using a bouncer ...

technomancy on Dec 13, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Beating the Talent Crunch with a Distributed Team

Skype has a pretty awful UI for chats. If you get people set up using a bouncer then it's pretty easy to get persistent conversations over IRC, and then people get to use the client of their choice. Plus it's a lot easier to automate with bots.