Skype is still good as a video client, but where they really screwed up was chat history. The only way you can recover old messages is to infinite scroll until

Skype is still good as a video client, but where they really screwed up was chat history. The only way you can recover old messages is to infinite scroll until you get to the point you need. Search is largely useless. WhatsApp desktop is a perfectly usable alternative, and chat is good - you can save to a file, media is automatically backed up if you want.