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The app is designed towards satisfying the need of most users. They see Skype as a single app, whether it's used on mobile or desktop, so it makes sense that ca

The app is designed towards satisfying the need of most users. They see Skype as a single app, whether it's used on mobile or desktop, so it makes sense that calls and contacts are synchronized. If you start a chat on the desktop client, you want to be able to continue it on your phone. Same thing with notifications. This separation you want feels unnatural (and I remember it was actually a complain most people had when it was not like that). Could you elaborate on the difficulty with concurrent calls? I'm never in two or more calls at the same time so I'm curious. I really don't like the current design because they took a lot of options away (e.g. you can't customize the themes that much and they look ugly to me). However, at least on Linux, it seems to be improving. I think they are trying to be everything to everybody, power users and non-tech mobile users and are failing at both. The network effect part of this makes it hard to separate those two audiences though. Is there a call/chat app that you like better?

buboard 7y ago
> you want to be able to continue it on your phone. OK i understand that, but at least have the option to somehow have "less than 3 phones and computers ringing at the same time for a call". Also , i know it s a windows thing , but i dont want to receive msg notifications on a computer if skype is not running on it (but i do want notifications if i have it running). [I should note i m talking about the desktop version] > Could you elaborate on the difficulty with concurrent calls? Allow popping out each chat window separately. Switching from a call to a text message of another user causes redrawing the entire page and loses the layout every time. It's very annoying. Also don't reset the setting of (view full video) whenever i resize the window. > Is there a call/chat app that you like better? Good question. Zoom's video chat management seems more reasonable, and as for the chat, just use the skype classic layout, it's simple. In fact yes i think i like skype classic better ;)

buboard 7y ago

> you want to be able to continue it on your phone. OK i understand that, but at least have the option to somehow have "less than 3 phones and computers ringing at the same time for a call". Also , i know it s a windows thing , but i dont want to receive msg notifications on a computer if skype is not running on it (but i do want notifications if i have it running). [I should note i m talking about the desktop version] > Could you elaborate on the difficulty with concurrent calls? Allow popping out each chat window separately. Switching from a call to a text message of another user causes redrawing the entire page and loses the layout every time. It's very annoying. Also don't reset the setting of (view full video) whenever i resize the window. > Is there a call/chat app that you like better? Good question. Zoom's video chat management seems more reasonable, and as for the chat, just use the skype classic layout, it's simple. In fact yes i think i like skype classic better ;)