Hi everyone,
The past few months I’ve heard that Escargot is implementing support for versions between 6.x and 7.x of Skype.
I have a question: can I sign into those Skype versions using my Escargot credentials? If not yet, let me know when the Escargot team finally allows it
Best regards,
Tanuki
hey, I wouldn’t place my hopes on escargot, their dev that was working on skype left the project and is now on crosstalk. that said there isn’t a release date, it’s a complicated process that will take time
it isnt a good idea to use escargot. there corrupt. use crosstalk or omessenger instead (i personally recommend crosstalk)
Escargot got its shady reputation thanks to a admin doing illegal things,when they realized this,they banned him out of his server,but afraid discord will take it down they decide to delete their discord server and take actions to prevent this incident…
At least that’s what i heard,don’t know if that’s true…
This is true (with the added caveat that the aforementioned administrator paid a large sum of money to gain that position in the first place, and that the most severe allegation was never fully proven), but there’s more to the story that was revealed after the Discord deletion. This thread is probably the best explanation you’re going to get, but the TLDR is that NINA/Escargot continuously displayed hostile behavior to users, prior Escargot team members (before the NINA team took over) and people who made similar services, effectively gouged both regular users as well as staff members out of money (including a situation that could effectively be described as a Ponzi scheme), ignored legal orders multiple times, used stolen AOL source code, and much more.
Thanks for telling me i’m true!
Anyways,the hostile behavior seems to have started as early as when the staff thought i was annoying and banned me off the server permanently…
I don’t know anything about your situation but I’d argue the hostility started the moment the NINA team took over operations of Escargot in early 2021, as they were immediately making plots to oust the original leaders, shit talked people who were moderators/active community members in small private chats, and to pretty much make the whole thing closed source and “for-profit” after the original owners left the project behind due to personal reasons. (It’s important to note that Escargot was its own project long before it was under the “umbrella” of Level Leap and not even the original owners knew what was going to happen the moment they handed the keys over.) The Escargot team made decent moderation decisions sometimes but also made a lot of terrible decisions at the same time, and often donators got incredibly lax moderation treatment (one donator made lewd and sexual comments for months in the server and weirded out lots of members until they were finally banned.)