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Also HN user jeltz below mentioned:

> I have tried most of them: Google Meet, Teams, Slack, Discord, Skype, Jitsi and so far I liked Jitsi the most and Skype the least.

>>tikkun+(OP)
Skype became really really terrible, it looks like it's been unmaintained during the past 10 years, I'd rate its usability worse than most open-source software. The sound quality is also awful, it feels like I'm calling a landline.

>>realus+s3
Where do you live? In the US at least, landline (AKA POTS) is still the gold standard for audio quality.

>>gumby+oa
Not parent commenter, though facetime audio or telegram audio is my preferred for audio quality.

>>gumby+oa
I live in France, landline had a distinct background white noise to it that somehow Skype managed to imitate. Switching to any other software feels like you're upgrading to HD audio.

>>gumby+oa
In the US I don't know a single person that has access to POTS. Discord (with paid nitro) is the gold standard for quality and latency, followed by all the free VoIP apps

>>NavinF+yA
I live in the US, and I'm pretty sure everyone I know has a landline, though a good number of them are now digital/fiber/whatever. Some people I know still have multiple landlines, as it's cheaper than paying multiple cell bills if necessary. I know at least one person who used to have call forwarding set up to get calls on their cellphone, but with the current state of marketing calls they probably don't do that anymore.

>>realus+Fd
It’s called “comfort noise,” and was an option in Lync/Skype for Business. A lot of users being switched from desk phones, especially older ones who still primarily used landlines at home, found themselves wondering if their conversation partner was still on the line without it.

>>efreak+cD
I may be too much of a zoomer but I haven't seen a landline in years, nearly a decade actually.

I'm not sure who still has them

>>efreak+cD
The only people I know who still have a landline are my grandparents who are in their 70s

>>gumby+oa
I'm in the US and landline was dogshit compared to modern discord/whatsapp/whatever.

Maybe it's cause old phone mics sucked but it wasn't great.

>>efreak+cD
> everyone I know has a landline

We clearly live in very different bubbles

> digital/fiber/whatever

VoIP

> cheaper than paying multiple cell bills

Nobody pays multiple cell bills unless they wanna use several data-only eSIMs from different carriers to get better speed/coverage. If you just want a lot of phone numbers, you can port your numbers to a VoIP provider and forward them. Way cheaper than a landline