Personally I only use Skype for video calls, and sometimes for land-line calls, and it works great. I use the web client. It feels weird to read all the comment

Personally I only use Skype for video calls, and sometimes for land-line calls, and it works great. I use the web client. It feels weird to read all the comments here. I think the problem is that most people use Skype as an IRC / Instant messenger / MS-messenger replacement, but MS didn't recognize that and screwed up that part of the app.