https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-killing-skype/
https://fxtwitter.com/Skype/status/1895477868261412953
Not really surprising, they’ve basically replaced it with Teams at this point.
Oh joy. I can only expect the fallout this will cause with the requests.
Skype revival isn’t happening, and it likely never will.
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I hate that they care more about teams instead of Skype,but there are also good news,after Skype got completely shut down They gonna make Revivals for it,it is unknown if there are gonna be revivals for mobile,iOS,PS vita and such other platforms,Skype was with us for a long time and it was a part of our childhood. Thank you Skype. (I’m not thanking Skype for shutting it down,I’m thanking Skype because it was a part of our childhood,the first time I used Skype I used The UWP one)
It will happend,they gonna revive it the same way as MSN
I’m not really sure, While Skype was at one point MSNP-based, it was based on a post-MSNP21 (WLM 2011/2012) version of the protocol, and documentation of the MSNP protocol beyond MSNP19 (WLM 2009) is scarce.
WLM revivals like Escargot and oMessenger were possible because there was already extensive documentation of older versions of the MSNP protocol due to earlier reverse engineering efforts (and a draft of MSNP2’s documentation). Skype’s protocols, as far as I’m aware, have never been documented properly.
WLM 2009 uses MSNP18. WLM 2011/2012 use MSNP21. MSNP19 and 20 were used in some specific things.
MSNP22 was used on Windows 8 Messaging.
MSNP24, the version Skype uses, has some similarities to old MSNP. I have tested and gotten Skype 7 to connect to a test server, and it works.
Current Skype is entirely REST based, it has some things inherited from old MSNP (including being able to send Nudges on the protocol, which they have recently removed), vastly different from MSNP.
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we should revive skype.
rant rant war war
Skype classic discord server is working on it
Will there be a Skype 7 revival in the future?
How about we should revive Skype 0.98.0.28 from 2004 (the first version of Skype with emoticons as evidenced by https://tweakers.net/downloads/6453/skype-098028.html)?
Download link of the installer (which also appears to be for version 0.98.0.28): Wayback Machine
That’s a very old version of Skype so prob it’s hard to Revive it,atleast Skype 4/5/6/7/8 can be revived
I called it years ago. No one really uses Skype anymore, everyone moved on to Discord… They really ruined it over the years. Rest in pepperoni.
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this depends if any of the skype protocols have been reverse engineered, which doesn’t seem to have happened besides MSNP24 as said in anima’s reply from earlier.
99% yes
Or how about a MSNP24 Skype revival mimicking Skype 4/5/6?
thats not how it works
i think this is possible because you can look at skype 8 requests in fiddler, and there is a lot of information about webapi (skype 8 protocol) on the internet.
we can revive skype 8, but we cant revive skype 7 and older versions.
Why would anyone want to work on WebAPI? Sure, it’s probably way easier than blindly attempting to implement MSNP24 (If Skype 7 can really stand on it’s own connected to a MSNP24 server, which would actually surprise me) or the legacy protocol with it’s questionable amount of keys needed. It’s just, I don’t really see people trying to aim for what’s new, rather than what’s old.
On the topic of MSNP, here’s a discarded reply to someone else:
Honestly, from my perspective, MSNP stopped being documented past basic proceedures by the time MSNP10 happened. There is, to this day, still a horrifically low amount of documentation for most of the protocol past that point. I’m sure it was better, but with the excessive link rot of the scene, not much remains.
Hell, it’s become so bad I’ve actually started to understand how some information managed to surface despite that.
I still barely know what the full range of sub-commands UUN actually is, only descriptions, and that was only found with luck of a Chinese blog post, which I guess helps, but I still don’t know much about the contents of the actual commands, due to the Official Client wanting unreasonable demands sometimes to experiment on a development server.
If I wanted to directly point fingers at NINA, I’d say that the documentation for most MSNP13 commands is some legendary, S-tier dogwater.
Genuine question, what are the parameters of a RFS command?
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