I have been using Skype only for work. The new redesign is totally has transformed it in an app for teenager. Do they really want to lose all the Business customers to Slack and similar?

Pros:

Nothing

Cons:

- Compact Contact List too big

- Disturbing animations

- Message bubble too big

- New sounds

Everyone complained about the blue bubbles? Get a toxic gradient in your face!

Is this an Electron app? It feels like one at least

Does this still support sending SMS messages? Or did it go the way of the iOS edition where the new redesigned version dropped it

The all new @Skype for Desktop is here! - Notification panel - Chat media gallery - Add-ins - Reactions - Mentions - Status updates are back and a lot more! 🎉

I'm using Skype by many years because was one of the most easy application to use for video call with family and friends, but later this year I have upgraded my dad PC with a new HD webcam (Logitech c920) with the hope to get a better quality from home. After few visual test I have realised the quality is not as expected, start to made more videocall test with some friends from another city what i know the have an HD camera and as well no HD quality. Want to say my home pc(dad pc) have a good CPU i5 quad core sandy bridge, with 8GB ram, ssd, internet speed 300Mbps, all drivers installed and still nothing the largest resolution I got is 960x540. Always the quality is on medium, the ping between me and my friend from another city is by 5ms our speedtest between us is by ~250Mbps, he have as well a good pc. In the end we give up of trying to made this to send HD quality.

Pros:

Nothing

Cons:

HD qulity is still not working for my HD camera even if you have good PC and internet speed

Thank you Skype for Slack invention!

Calls are dropped. Video quality is throttled. Annoying notifications no asked for.

Pros:

Is well known.

Cons:

Unbelievably unreliable.

I'm no design expert, but I think Skype is a little late to the gradient party. 😂

The default message gradient (for people that don't set it in their profile) is awful.

I just want them to fix the issue of a ridiculous amount of CPU being used when on a call. Skype is the only app I have on my mac that makes it slow down to being virtually unusable.

I`m switching to Google hangouts for business calls and looking for a better alternative for skype at the moment.

Pros:

None

Cons:

Total fail. Contacts management is absent because contacts grouping was removed. UI changes every single day and becomes worse and worse.