Skype – The Maccouch http://the.maccouch.com Just another _temporary_ Wordpress site Tue, 07 Feb 2017 00:40:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.2 Never mind the fundamentals… http://the.maccouch.com/2011/09/15/never-mind-the-fundamentals/ http://the.maccouch.com/2011/09/15/never-mind-the-fundamentals/#respond Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:31:01 +0000 http://the.maccouch.com/?p=445 Continue reading "Never mind the fundamentals…"

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“Today we’re launching Skype 5.4 for Mac Beta. The launch introduces the same Facebook integration found in Skype 5.5 for Windows. We are excited to finally deliver Facebook integration to our Mac users.

Just like in our Windows client, you will now be able to IM and connect with your Facebook friends without leaving Skype. You will also be able to read and update your News Feed, as well as comment and ‘Like’ your Facebook friends’ posts – all within Skype for Mac.”

Skype – The Big Blog

…Just aim for the shiny accessory. Ooh! Shiny!NewImage

Yeah, that will definitely work out great. Skype 5 is a UI mess, it has been since its Beta stage. Many have complained already and made long blog posts stating what’s wrong(here and here) and even on of its (former i think) main UI designers has stated his disappointment with it. (( the original statement that started the brief conversation ))

Yet, Skype Co keeps marching faithfully on the horror path and instead of correcting the UI mess, that everyone complains and can find out how unusable it is in less than 5 minutes i can bet, well, instead of that, they go and…

(wait for it. Wait For It!)

Add Facebook! Yeah! That will work. Not.

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]]> I’ve tried the last Skype 5. It took me as long to try it as the beta, back in November or so. 30 minutes. I then reverted back to the previous version.

It’s beyond description what they have done to the User Interface. It’s huge, disproportionate, confuse, it has contacts in CoverFlow (Seriously? why would i want that???), i can’t hide offline contacts, i can’t understand how to close individual chats (without going to the menu bar) and they just accumulate on the sidebar, etc, etc.  It’s an über-mess.

What’s even more amazing is that they had exactly the same type of feedback on the Beta, yet managed to make no major corrections whatsoever. Sometimes i really don’t understand what’s going on in some companies.

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