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It's also gotten extremely buggy. Can't get reliably through firewalls anymore, constantly orders messages wrong or doesn't show messages that were sent by a di

It's also gotten extremely buggy. Can't get reliably through firewalls anymore, constantly orders messages wrong or doesn't show messages that were sent by a different client (even though they were received by the other party correctly), has much worse voice quality than Whatsapp, can't handover between networks, takes ages to load on older iPhones, the list goes on. I'd move away to Whatsapp in a heartbeat if they offered group calls and paid calls to phone numbers.

AdrianRossouw 10y ago
or they had a real desktop client.
- m_mueller 10y ago
  They do have something for chat, but it's a bit quirky - pairs with your phone somehow.
  - dingo_bat 10y ago
    I think that's what gp was referring to when he emphasized "real".
mhurron 10y ago
> It's also gotten extremely buggy. No kidding. If I get a skype message while my iphone is locked, when I swipe to unlock and open the app, those messages (all of them if there were several on the lock screen) are lost forever.
- MichaelGG 10y ago
  I've the opposite issue. Skype keeps redelivering messages. Even after I've read and responded. Sometimes 8 hours after. The UI always sucked (made me wonder why it has been mentioned as a positive example of software made outside the US) - but the basic message flow is broken now.
  - m_mueller 10y ago
    > positive example of software made outside the US well in this particular case it seems to have been screwed over once an American company took over. Skype always worked fine before MS (and the US Government) took over.