Decentralized chat networks proven better

Skype's recent three day network‐wide failure expose how bad centralized networks are compared to decentralized networks such as XMPP. I'll let BBC News explain what happen:

In a statement posted on its website, Skype said the widespread outage began after Skype's servers around the world re‐started following a software upgrade to user's computers.

The knock‐on effect was that an unusually high number of people tried to log on to the system at once and the Skype network could not cope.

To make matters worse, the scale of the failure exposed a previously unknown bug in the algorithm that should have helped the Skype network recover quickly.

Does it not sound familiar? Remember the old Messenger problems Microsoft had to deal with a couple of years ago? Their servers where overloaded daily by the numbers of users trying to access the network too.

This failure proves yet again that decentralized networks with more than one provider is indeed better. Skype exclusively controls their network and the software that access it.

Grab yourself a Jabber account; and chat on a network that does not fail. (At least not all at once.)

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