New Skype Update Is Horrible
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New Skype Update Is Horrible
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#2I just got forced to update on iOS. OMFGJMOAP, it is a horror. I use it to make calls from Europe to the US and elsewhere, and it has worked great for that, but now it's all about chit-chat and colorfulness, bleh. What's a good option?
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#3Still can't make a (edit-added SKYPE.) call from contacts app in iOS. What's so hard about that?
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#4it's almost impressive how skype manages to become unidirectionally worse and worse over time
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#5Has skype ever been good? For as long as I can remember it was a necessary evil until we finally managed to replace it with Hangouts and the like.
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#6So, I'm only on Windows (desktop and mobile), and funny enough, Windows is the platform that hasn't gotten the update yet. But everyone from the Android and iOS camps is constantly complaining about this. :/ I feel lucky I haven't gotten the update yet, and have a feeling I'll need to find a new messaging client of choice soon.
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#7I have witnessed Skype to go from almost perfect video & chat communicator to absolute crap over almost 10 years, and I feel very sad that it has come to rip off Snapchat. There is no alternative like the old Skype now in the desktop.
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#8You could totally remove "New" and "Update" from that sentence and it would still be a very true statement.
* Full disclosure: my co. was acquired and forced to use office suite.
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#9Has skype ever been good? For as long as I can remember it was a necessary evil until we finally managed to replace it with Hangouts and the like.
...Has Hangouts ever been good? Like, I totally get complaining about Skype. The P2P stuff caused it to be kinda wonky.
But your choice for "better" is Hangouts? Between the five or six alternative Google chat offerings, the attempts to merge it with the dialer and SMS apps, the cutting out of the online/offline statuses.
Google Talk was great though, back in the day.
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#10What could I switch to (on both Mac and PC) that would give me better video chat functionality?
Edit: Just to clarify, here's what I'm looking for:
1. Free plan; available everywhere in the world (I have family outside the US).
2. Both Mac and PC clients that are actually good.
3. Video chat quality (including noise filtering and such) that matches or exceeds what Skype can do.
4. IM-like client that supports text, voice, and video chat. This disqualifies business-type solutions that are geared around groups pre-scheduling meetings. I just want to see who's online and send them an IM or video chat request.