NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????
-
,Re: New Skype on Android
WTF IS WRONG WITH MY SKYPE. im having problems on my android and on my pc. the icons are gone. no more seeing if your messages were delivered on pc, among other things, and typing on android is useless as it takes 15 minutes to write a sentence since it either erases all the letters u type or it writes words backwards. screw skype im going to find a program that doesnt waste so much of my time. this is T-TOTAL BULLSHIT. I want my frickin icons back!!!!!!!
-
@perkykitty Don't hold back so much, tell us how you really feel.
Also, welcome to WTDWTF.
Filed Under: Your straitjacket will be brought to you shortly.
-
Skype on my PC auto-updated to some new that prioritizes viewing past conversations and not having a list of online contacts. Calling someone I haven't talked to in a while is now a huge hassle.
-
I love how if Skype is "running" but minimized or otherwise unable to deal with the notwork, large fragments of conversation will pass it by without a trace. The only way to notice is if you have a different copy of Skype that did capture that fragment, or if you completely remove and reinstall Skype.
-
Skype killed my cat
-
Skype's update kills children! </linus>
-
Has Skype ever not sucked?
They have like 425 implementations that they rewrite every couple years, so it's hard to keep track, but I think most of them have historically been accurately described as "sucky".
-
@anonymous234 said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
Has Skype ever not sucked?
Yes, up until MS bought it
-
@timebandit
lololol, agreed. skype has ALWAYS sucked
-
@anonymous234
and at this moment i have downloaded the damn program 3 different times and i still cannot get it to open on my pc, just a blank white page. and like i stated it takes a week to write a sentence on my android.
-
@perkykitty I know this is not a help category but, I believe there's a skype for the web, so maybe it would be a workaround for your particular case?
-
I believe the new Skype app is actually just a fuckin browser-based app
-
@timebandit said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
browser-based app
There's a thread for those
-
-
@anonymous234 said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
Has Skype ever not sucked?
Not in my experience of it.
-
@blek said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
Skype killed my cat
Skype Kills Your Puppy Everyday
-
@timebandit said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
@anonymous234 said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
Has Skype ever not sucked?
Yes, up until MS bought it
This. Skype was really the only IM client worth having, right up until Microsoft bought it because it was the only IM client worth having. Then, Microsoft being Microsoft, quality began to predictably decline almost immediately.
-
@timebandit said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
I believe the new Skype app is actually just a fuckin browser-based app
Which is a perfectly normal thing because browsers are full-blown software platforms, and they happen to be much, much better at running software than Windows (at least pre-UWP) or Linux.
And if you don't like it, just make another software platform that implements completely sandboxed, install-free execution of any apps, is an open standard, and is designed to be portable to any kind of device. Also you'll need to go back in time like 20 years when it was the fucking time to do so. It's a first-winner-takes-all economy after all.
-
@anonymous234 said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
Which is a perfectly normal thing because browsers are full-blown software platforms
Then let me run it in my browser of choice, instead of making me install a browser for each fuckin app
and they happen to be much, much better at running software than Windows (at least pre-UWP) or Linux.
Yes, running a browser-based app is more efficient
And if you don't like it, just make another software platform that implements completely sandboxed, install-free execution of any apps, is an open standard, and is designed to be portable to any kind of device.
What you describe is a web-app running in a browser.
It's not install-free if you package the app with another browser.
-
@timebandit said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
Yes, up until MS bought it
You mean when the servers would go down for literally days at a time?
-
@anonymous234 said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
And if you don't like it, just make another software platform that implements completely sandboxed, install-free execution of any apps, is an open standard, and is designed to be portable to any kind of device.
Other than "open standard", Flash was way better at all that shit.
-
@anonymous234 said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
@timebandit said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
@anonymous234
I believe the new Skype app is actually just a fuckin browser-based appWhich is a perfectly normal thing because browsers are full-blown software platforms, and they happen to be much, much better at running software than Windows (at least pre-UWP) or Linux.
but the web version is completely different than the desktop version despite the latter being an Electron web app
and then there's a separate Windows 10 version.
-
@anonymous234 said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
Has Skype ever not sucked?
It used to suck less. This does not imply that it ever didn't suck.
-
@mott555 said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
@blek said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
Skype killed my cat
Skype Kills Your Puppy Everyday
Thank goD I don't use Skype! My puppy was just born last Saturday!
-
Skype always sucked and I always hated it. My hatred grew when my former employer forced this shit on all employees. Oh, the memories, oh, the pain...
And then I changed jobs and learned that thah company had subscription for Skype Business. Still Skype, but it's always a step up - I thought. And you know what? It was even worse.Never again.
-
@mrl said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
Skype always sucked and I always hated it. My hatred grew when my former employer forced this shit on all employees. Oh, the memories, oh, the pain...
And then I changed jobs and learned that thah company had subscription for Skype Business. Still Skype, but it's always a step up - I thought. And you know what? It was even worse.Never again.
Skype for Business isnât Skype at all â itâs rebranded Lync.
The same with one drive. OneDrive for business is just rebranded cloud-based Share Point.
-
@kt_ said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
Skype for Business isnât Skype at all â itâs rebranded Lync.
And what incredible shit it is
-
@homobalkanus said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
@kt_ said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
Skype for Business isnât Skype at all â itâs rebranded Lync.
And what incredible shit it is
Yes, indeed.
-
@kt_
Not anymore there is now just one OneDrive turd
-
@luhmann said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
@kt_
Not anymore there is now just one OneDrive turdHuh? Source?
-
@kt_
My work pc. After the recent office update I had to add both accounts to into one Onedrive. But apps have been converging over the last year
-
@luhmann said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
@kt_
My work pc. After the recent office update I had to add both accounts to into one Onedrive. But apps have been converging over the last yearAh, that thereâs a one app doesnât mean a squat. When I have file versioning (for all files, not only office) in one drive personal, then Iâll believe that somethingâs changed.
-
@kt_
That is a feature of the cloud storage not the syncing app. If I disable versioning on a Sharepoint library those options wont be available either. But yeah it would be nice MS could allign those things instead of just giving them the same name.
-
Can anyone tell me where the fuck the "Add Contact" button went on the PC version?
And, no, that button on the top right is to add another person to the conversation. This is below discourse standards at this point. Hell, it's almost at SSDS standards at this point. No amount of me yelling at my boss will get us to move off of Skype, but maybe Skype will finally suck so bad even my bosses will realize how much shit it really is and move us to something that offers something even AOL thought of in the 90s.
-
@the_quiet_one Can you click or right-click that contacts / book-with-person icon just next to that bell icon?
-
@jbert Yep. All that does is give me a popup version of the left panel. The context menus and buttons are all the same. At least their UI is consistently horrific.
-
-
@marczellm said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
God, that's shitty. Now I know how Blakey feels when his shit threshold is passed. No wonder he's insufferable so often.
-
Solution: just uninstall Skype and tell Windows that you don't want it, and to never install Skype again.
Within 24 hours W10 will silently reinstall a fresh copy for you.
Filed under: You might enjoy Candy Crush Saga
-
@lorne-kates said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
Solution: just uninstall Skype and tell Windows that you don't want it, and to never install Skype again.
Within 24 hours W10 will silently reinstall a fresh copy for you.
Filed under: You might enjoy Candy Crush Saga
And enjoy your new Windows experience, without Candy Crush and unsafe password managers!
-
After being pressured to update by a "Skype Bot" for like the third time (
SoOn yOu Won'T bE aBLe tO cONneCt!
), I've taken a deep breath and updated Skype.Instant regret.
New "features":
-
Giant ass emoticons, when on a message by themselves. Seriously, just look at the size of those things. Also they are flatter now, because of course they are.
-
A stupid smiley button after each message. Apparently the Emoticon picker on the left side and the Moji picker on the right side of the message input weren't enough. No, we need to be able to react to each message individually.
It's not like we could just type a reaction like I did on my message there, right?
-
"Away" status is gone. Want to tell people you're not in front of the computer so they don't bother talking to you? Tough luck.
-
Contacts lists are gone. You wanted to create lists to organize your contacts? Oh, you had already created lists grouping your contacts? Haha, fuck you. That's gone. Create new groups instead. It's the approximately the same thing, except you get to recreate them all over. Also a group seems to be something like a conversation, so if you add or remove someone from a group that will affect other people in that group, I guess? Hard to tell.
-
I'm pretty sure they've switched around the order of the buttons to accept and reject a call, because these past few days I've been having to make a double take before pressing the right button.
-
The floating popup of an ongoing conversation is like twice taller of what it was before. I guess everyone got a screen upgrade to retina resolution...
-
...except the font size is still the same and there's nowhere visible where you can configure it. What you can do is use keyboard shortcuts. Ctrl+- will zoom out the interface. Look, we can zoom out quite a lot:
You can press Ctrl++ to... wait, why is nothing happening?
Uh-oh.
How do I?... maybe Ctrl+Scroll?...
Ctrl+, open the Applications Settings (intuitive) ...
Phew!, at least Ctrl+0 worked!But I still don't know how to increase the font size.
-
-
@Zecc said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
But I still don't know how to increase the font size.
Ctrl-shift-plus?
-
@Tsaukpaetra said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
Ctrl-shift-plus?
That works. I don't actually need it, but thanks. It's good to know.
Meanwhile Ctrl+Shit+Minus doesn't work.
A web search for "skype keyboard shortcuts" has revealed that pressing eg Alt+V will bring up the otherwise hidden window menu.
Typo left on purpose.
Edit: moved text around for clarification. Go look at the edit history if you're curious.
-
@Zecc said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
"Away" status is gone. Want to tell people you're not in front of the computer so they don't bother talking to you? Tough luck.
Surely you've got skype on your phone? Which you always carry with you? So you're never truly away?
Embrace the 24/7/365 mindset!
They can put the 24/7/365 mindset where the sun doesn't shine.
-
@perkykitty said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
,Re: New Skype on Android
WTF IS WRONG WITH MY SKYPE
Microsoft made it better.
Just like they did with Windows 10.
-
@PleegWat said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
Embrace the 24/7/365 mindset!
I shall cite the last three panels of https://xkcd.com/137/ .(1)
FUCK. THAT. SHIT.
And no, I don't have Skype on my phone.
(1) The overall message of that xkcd doesn't quite fit here, but the underlying sentiment is appropriate.
-
@Steve_The_Cynic Hey, if we're doing that, I have the urge to do
@Zecc said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
Giant ass emoticons
Filed under: and it looks appropriate enough
-
@Zecc I was on the receiving end of an updated Skype this weekend. My parents got blackmailed into updating their laptop which of course lead to some of the most excruciating moments of my life.
Not only did I hear myself louder than I heard my parents, with every second of the call the number of words they could fit in before they got cut off decreased. At the start a short sentence would get through. Two minutes later, they couldn't get two words in.
Several repeated calls later we finally gave up and they switched to using the Android version on their phone. Anyone who has ever used the Android version knows that it's not exactly great either which only goes to show how much of a disaster the new PC version is.
-
@Zecc said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
But I still don't know how to increase the font size.
You're complaining about Skype? I couldn't get the font size bigger on goddamn SSMS last year. Had to zoom in with CTRL - +. Thankfully the zoom levels stayed between opening them each time. It's MS, and also there was an update around 2014/15 which made all emoticons big ass but not flat and changed a few buttons around it fucked things up for no reason. You are pretty late to the "I hate Skype" party. Oh like somebody else said you should try Skype for Business. It's a whole another world of WTFy stuff all over the place.
-
@stillwater said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
You are pretty late to the "I hate Skype" party.
I hated it way before MS even bought it.