<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>CSDude</author><text>I have witnessed Skype to go from almost perfect video &amp;amp; chat communicator to absolute crap over almost 10 years, and I feel very sad that it has come to rip off Snapchat. There is no alternative like the old Skype now in the desktop.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Fezzik</author><text>It really is astonishing. I remember using Skype around 2004&amp;#x2F;05 on a horribly crappy Dell laptop and it (Skype) worked flawlessly. It sort of boggles the mind how far in to the ground it has been driven.</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>CSDude</author><text>I have witnessed Skype to go from almost perfect video &amp;amp; chat communicator to absolute crap over almost 10 years, and I feel very sad that it has come to rip off Snapchat. There is no alternative like the old Skype now in the desktop.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scrollaway</author><text>I have high hopes for Discord video, which is coming out soon. Knowing the discord team and seeing the quality of the voice product, I&amp;#x27;m finally going to be able to replace god-awful Google Hangouts.</text></comment>