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Improved Skype desktop clients
- Someone1234 12y agoMeh. At least compact view and "turn profile pictures off" is still there. The chat window is a regression but not a big one. I think they were going for minimalism here but instead made the all too common mistake of turning it into a game of "hide the commonly used functionality" (Google Maps I'm looking at YOU). Also they're wasting TONS of space on the main contact list (25% of it literally is just a blue box that lists my own damn name and "online" very freaking helpful that!). Then we have home (which does nothing useful) and "call phones," then a huge white space with nothing, and only then do we reach my first contact 50% way down the page. They should have just shoved "Home" and "Call Phones" into the useless blue box, moved the contacts up, and given me more space so I can avoid using search at all. The old client, frankly, made better use of space: http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/skype-client.png http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/skype-...