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For some reason, I do not see any mention of SkypeMe, a very cool feature I loved on Skype. I see it mentioned at List of Skype features#SkypeMe!_status. My memory is pretty good because I liked the feature so much I memorized the latest version where I saw SkypeMe. It was on Skype 3.8. I hoped it would come back for years but it never happened and Skype morphed in a huge and oversized window which is essentially equivalent to Teams. I just found out that Skype will shut down in May so, sadly, it will be gone forever anyway.
While Skype was supposed to shut down on 5 May, it remains available as of right now. I'd like to indicate this in the "Closure" section (and change "was" back to "is" in the article's first sentence), but I don't have a citation for it other than "I'm currently using it" — although I'll note that there isn't currently a citation for the claim in the Closure section that the closure was finalised on 5 May. Does anyone more familiar with Wikipedia policies and standards have any advice? Oooooooseven (talk) 01:19, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed, I have found that Skype actually still works if you don't update your client from 8.138 to 8.150 which is the version that basically "disables" your client and replaces it with an EOL message.
I too was going to try and add that into the article, but I hadn't found any secondary sources talking about it either. Virtually every source says "Skype is dead now!", and Wikipedia is supposed to sum up what secondary sources say and not our own thoughts (WP:NOR), which means the article shall remain as it is even if it continues to work in reality with a downgraded client.
Basically the only "source" I found that kind-of verifies this observation is the Skype subreddit, but Reddit can't be cited on Wikipedia as it is a form of self-published source, i.e. user-generated content.
I'll also add one more thing, that microsoft very likely won't keep up the Skype servers forever - they are probably doing it so people can continue to use up their remaining skype credits, as well as giving people extra time to download/migrate their message history before it's all deleted (which happens in January 2026). I read somewhere a very similar thing happened with the Skype P2P to cloud transition where you could continue to use the version 7 client even after it was "discontinued", but that only lasted a few months before they completely took down the backend for the v7 and below clients. So for what it's worth, it might be kinda moot to cover this. — AP 499D25(talk)00:10, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
level-5 vital article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
