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Comment by kayoone | Hacker News Reader

They should fix their core business. I loathe skype. Instant messaging on multiple devices is just dreadful as you get all conversations as unread again on any device you log on to skype. The mobile client sucks your battery dry and is super slow...i hate it with passion... Still i need to use it as most of my clients do..

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Working on it. Thanks for your feedback.

(Disclaimer: Skype Engineer)

Neat! Then perhaps you can provide some insight into why Skype ditched peer-to-peer in favour of centralisation?

There was a pretty good writeup on that. Short answer: Mobile devices.

Here it is: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/2013/06/sort/time_...

Intelligence Agencies also prefer Skype that way :D

For what it's worth...the read/unread sync state has been fixed recently in the last few months. With that also came the ability to IM someone who is offline and have them be able to read the IM even if when they come back online, you're offline (wow!! what sort of black magic is that??)

Is that a good feature though? It just means that microsoft is intercepting your messages and storing them (you also can't tell when someone hasn't received your message anymore.)

They still were intercepting it anyway. But I completely join the train that Skype is a virus needing to be killed.

I have read about that but it doesn't seem to work for me ? I still get dozens of old conversations as unread whenever i log onto skype on my phone.

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