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The article is about "Skype for Business". But let's talk about the Skype for consumers. They transformed a nice software in one of the most clunky and unusabl
by kome 8y ago
The article is about "Skype for Business".
But let's talk about the Skype for consumers. They transformed a nice software in one of the most clunky and unusable and frustrating experiences ever. The UI is just that broken.
The thing is that try to follow all the last shitty trends of development and webdesign, and the results are absolutely horrible. The new Skype "electron"-like interface for MacOS is the worst UI I saw in a long time... No thinking behind it, just trends without actually understanding them for real. The designers clearly never used Skype one day in their life. They made it impossible to use.
I am urging anyone that wants to talk to me to use Telegram those days.
- Kliment 8y agoThis is a good time to mention ghetto-skype [1] which makes it semi-usable again. https://github.com/stanfieldr/ghetto-skype https://github.com/stanfieldr/ghetto-skype
- ksherlock 8y agoI deleted it and reverted to an older pre-electron version. The one-page HTML user interface is painful to use. I just want to make cheap phone calls, not join a social network. Socialism sucks.
- kome 8y agoSocialism?!?
- exitcode00 8y agoThe thing is, they threw out the whole qt app and rewrote it inside the miserably slow javascript toy. Windows 10 might ad well just be an ie12 tab at this point...