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Design? UX? I'd wish those are the only issues with Skype. If really necessary, can tolerate ugliest of the designs, if it works. Problem is, it doesn't. It lo
by drdaeman 9y ago
Design? UX? I'd wish those are the only issues with Skype. If really necessary, can tolerate ugliest of the designs, if it works. Problem is, it doesn't.
It loses messages at random. Sometimes it fails to send (I was really angry when I had an important call, and my "Hey, I'm here, let's start" got stuck in "Sending..." forever - thankfully, web.skype.com worked. That message made it through only the next day.) Sometimes it fails to receive - someone asks me why I'm not responding and I check the messages and don't see anything.
And those "sometimes" are not once in a blue moon, but every other month (if not worse).
Unfortunately, suggestions to use something else are not really working so I've stopped trying. Everyone seems to hate Skype, everyone I've asked had recognized it barely works and is frequently unreliable, but almost everyone I know still sticks to it. :(
- BadassFractal 9y agoOr the desktop client on OSX keeps asking for admin privileges to install some helper tool every other day, with no explanation for why that's necessary.
- thenipper 9y agoThat helper tool maxes my cpu every time I’m on a call. It’s amazingly terrible.
- BadassFractal 9y agoI'm just assuming I'm getting hacked by North Korea every time I say yes to it.
- j4ship 9y agothese replies are a symbol of what hackernews has become , so political , not much real substance