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How to Make Skype 7.0 (“new skype”) Freeze

conspicuouslad:

theauthorman:

postcrusade-mod:

  1. Have window mode set to classic
  2. Accidentally click on some chat, be it group or private
  3. Quickly click on your intended chat.
  4. Enjoy 2-5 minutes of a frozen window

Go fuck yourself, Microsoft.

yeah new skype looks terrible and I unupgraded and set it to not upgrade itself ever pretty much immediately. Good to see that was the correct decision.

On the plus side the ads are gone.

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There are still ads in the “Home” screen thing that no one uses. So that probably doesn’t count as much.

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And they still have this banner hanging over chat screens (and wasting vertical space >:c), but it only seems to advertise how-tos on using the very program you’re currently using. (/’-’)/

Advertising yourself.
~ justskypethings

(Source: post-cactus, via conspicuouslad)

  1. thegreatfrikken reblogged this from post-cactus and added:
    I downgraded Skype because the newest version is just too damn ugly. I suggest people do the same.
  2. post-cactus reblogged this from conspicuouslad and added:
    There are still ads in the “Home” screen thing that no one uses. So that probably doesn’t count as much. And they still...
  3. entropicat reblogged this from post-cactus
  4. conspicuouslad reblogged this from its-am-chan and added:
    On the plus side the ads are gone.