<story><title>New Skype Update Is Horrible</title><url>https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/forum/skype_prevandroms-skype_messms/new-skype-update-is-horrible/bcc5c863-6358-43d2-ab1b-b55ff97eba0d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pveierland</author><text>My worst Skype annoyance was when they seized your purchased credits if your account was left unused for 180 days. As a sporadic user of Skype when I needed to place an international call etc, having purchased credits reset automatically was such a provocation [0]. Every time I have to re-install Skype for some reason, there&amp;#x27;s always a new regression or dark UX pattern in use.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blogs.wsj.com&amp;#x2F;digits&amp;#x2F;2010&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;14&amp;#x2F;skype-lawsuit-to-yield-credit-for-customers&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blogs.wsj.com&amp;#x2F;digits&amp;#x2F;2010&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;14&amp;#x2F;skype-lawsuit-to-yie...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nailer</author><text>I had a similar experience: Microsoft deleted all my childhood email because I didn&amp;#x27;t log into hotmail frequently enough.&lt;p&gt;This included the emails I sent to my first love. And the ones she sent me. All gone. Because Microsoft wanted to save some tiny amount of space. I love Microsoft and an writing this on a Surface device now but Christ, that was awful and would make me think twice about using Microsoft online services.&lt;p&gt;PS. If anyone on HN somehow knows ways to recover the contents on deleted hotmail accounts then please let me know.</text></comment>
<story><title>New Skype Update Is Horrible</title><url>https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/forum/skype_prevandroms-skype_messms/new-skype-update-is-horrible/bcc5c863-6358-43d2-ab1b-b55ff97eba0d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pveierland</author><text>My worst Skype annoyance was when they seized your purchased credits if your account was left unused for 180 days. As a sporadic user of Skype when I needed to place an international call etc, having purchased credits reset automatically was such a provocation [0]. Every time I have to re-install Skype for some reason, there&amp;#x27;s always a new regression or dark UX pattern in use.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blogs.wsj.com&amp;#x2F;digits&amp;#x2F;2010&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;14&amp;#x2F;skype-lawsuit-to-yield-credit-for-customers&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blogs.wsj.com&amp;#x2F;digits&amp;#x2F;2010&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;14&amp;#x2F;skype-lawsuit-to-yie...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gerardnll</author><text>It is nonsense. I don&amp;#x27;t think there&amp;#x27;s a reason to do that except to scam users. Any UX-UI Dev &amp;#x2F; Engineer &amp;#x2F; Person with common sense knows that users would not understand the process. 180 days and my credit is disabled but I can reactivate it again anytime? what the hell?&lt;p&gt;What I&amp;#x27;m not sure of is what happens if you buy credit without reactivating the inactive balance... Does it reactivate the inactive balance or not? If not... they are shameless.</text></comment>