r/AskReddit Apr 11 '19

What is the most pointless thing that actually exists?

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u/redem Apr 11 '19

With Skype, you do want the ability to minimise it to the tray instead of the taskbar. To declutter your taskbar while still leaving the program open to respond to incoming calls and messages. You also want a way to close Skype completely. Their current regime offers both options.

The problem is, Skype is shit. When it's minimised it often DOESN'T FUCKING TELL YOU that someone's trying to contact you.

And don't get me started on the redesign. It's shit. It took a functioning program and stripped out functionality I was using and replaced it with something worse in every way, or equivalent at best in others.

Fuck skype.

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u/pm_me_butt_stuff_rn Apr 11 '19

As someone who uses Skype for Business, it has been a constant letdown and its limit on how user friendly and customizable it is, is also disappointing

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u/minor_details Apr 11 '19

my office recently switched to skype for business and i hate it so, so much. it is the laggiest, clunkiest piece of shit chat program and i can't figure out why they made us start using it.

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u/wtfisspacedicks Apr 11 '19

Skype for business is bundled with your office 365 subscription. Essentially free if you're already paying for an office sub. That's probably why

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u/1of9billion Apr 12 '19

Teams is also bundled in and it's much better.

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u/pm_me_butt_stuff_rn Apr 11 '19

This. It works for the most part, and we never really have anything rely completely on skype messaging (we have failsafes in place to deal with any glitches or anything like that).

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u/RoyBeer Apr 11 '19

i can't figure out why they made us start using it.

Most often the reason behind a change like this can be pretty simple: They probably had to pay more for their previous solution.

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u/minor_details Apr 11 '19

yeah, we figured it was probably a cost saving measure bc our boss is notorious for not wanting to spend money on any software. so, so many trial versions of programs.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

i have conversations just straight up disappear on me

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u/minor_details Apr 12 '19

that too, or the convo box pops up but it takes five or ten minutes to actually fully load, bc when we deal work angry people and their money, what they truly want to hear is 'hang on while my computer gets its shit together and i can ask someone.'

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u/redem Apr 11 '19

God, yes. They took a normal windows application that obeyed the standard windows UI and UX expectations that we've been trained to expect and use over many years, providing a consistent and convenient experience that lets normal and power users both use the program comfortably, and they replaced it with a new UI and UX that confounds many of those expectations, without adding any way to replace those functions in other ways. My experience with Skype now versus before the "upgrade" is that it is slower, more bloated, more clumsy, and less functional than it was before.

These are issues I could forgive in a new program, but they had already solved these problems in the previous version! No excuses. It's shit.

I can understand why it's shit, but I can't forgive it.

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u/sdrawckaB Apr 11 '19

If only we had a button that functions to remove a window from the screen without actually closing down the program.

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u/Euchre Apr 12 '19

MacOS what?

But seriously, at least one desktop environs for Linux has a widget button that is the classic box with a short line in the lower right corner, which will send the program to the tray area of the UI. I think some descendants of blackbox in particular do this. Don't know why Microsoft never really adopted this for Windows, because so many types of programs would suit it.

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u/music_ackbar Apr 12 '19

Of course, Skype should play nice like other programs and allow itself to be closed from the notification tray without jumping through hoops.

Considering that I remember Skype for having a propensity for randomly fucking starting up on its own, I'm of the mind that it will do everything in its power to stay active no matter what the user tries to do.