It's an example of "worse is better" design philosophy yes but an example of that happening BY ACCIDENT The "worse" features that were "better" -- it being really easy to jump into a chat via URL, etc -- were there because they seriously didn't expect everyone to start using it
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Hence the stuff like people trolling Zooms with porn and racist slurs etc being a classic "scaling problem", i.e. something that would obviously happen once it actually became popular that they never planned for
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what happened to skype?
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It wasn't as easy to just jump into Skype without having to download anything or create an account And also Skype didn't scale up as well, Zoom's "killer" feature was being able to just keep on adding more people to its "gallery view" without noticeable performance drops
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