aHumanError
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Hello there.
I haven't installed Skype on my laptop for almost two years now, last time I used it wasn't a great memory. It was horrendous, so slow, bloated, consumed RAM for no reason, and they constantly flooded you with "new" versions trying to fix the sheer volume of problems it had back then - which often surfaced another issue.
I should explain that I was from the MSN and WLM era of communication and it was a big disappointment for me when Microsoft announced the end of their chat software and to be replaced with Skype, well after that didn't work so well I looked for alternatives and I used Trillian for a little while which worked well - exactly what I needed; just a basic chat app with all the functionality of Skype but that WASN'T Skype, it was great... until they cut support for it!
So after that I kinda gave up, I wasn't prepared to install Skype again.
So my question is how is Skype these days? To be honest I'm not really interested in making calls or anything like that. I kinda like having my contacts [who all use Skype] there to chat to and that's it. And is there any cross platform alternatives?
I haven't installed Skype on my laptop for almost two years now, last time I used it wasn't a great memory. It was horrendous, so slow, bloated, consumed RAM for no reason, and they constantly flooded you with "new" versions trying to fix the sheer volume of problems it had back then - which often surfaced another issue.
I should explain that I was from the MSN and WLM era of communication and it was a big disappointment for me when Microsoft announced the end of their chat software and to be replaced with Skype, well after that didn't work so well I looked for alternatives and I used Trillian for a little while which worked well - exactly what I needed; just a basic chat app with all the functionality of Skype but that WASN'T Skype, it was great... until they cut support for it!
So after that I kinda gave up, I wasn't prepared to install Skype again.
So my question is how is Skype these days? To be honest I'm not really interested in making calls or anything like that. I kinda like having my contacts [who all use Skype] there to chat to and that's it. And is there any cross platform alternatives?