Why is skype the worst program I have ever laid my...

This program is such a **bleep**ing joke. Every single time skype updates it does the exact opposite of "improving my experience". I have no idea how my favorite messenger program has morphed into this peice of absolute garbage that I'm dealing with now. It started with updates only adding advertisements, now with skypes new update that was COMPLETELY forced by the way it is almost unusable at this point. I've noticed recently that closing skype made my game counter-strike:global offensive run without any lag, and all the lag that was being caused was from skype, how is it a single program can lag my entire computer, how could the design of a program be so awful. Now I cannot "find" any messages sent or received. I have changed no computer setting, I have not changed any skype setting this all happen from it's own updates alone. Messages literally load in random order, it loads all my msgs in the past week or something and puts new msgs somewhere scrambled in with them in all different areas (never places the newsest messages at the bottom). I just now woke up and noticed skype was updating, it had been all night that means and it made my computer run stressfully all night whilst not accomplishing any update and failing to stop itself from trying to update more. I actually literally had to reset my router which I rarely have to do b/c skype updates knocked my internet off. This program is a **bleep**ing joke and will die as soon as something better comes along, anyone using an altnerative already? 

It doesn't help to change the clock back to correct time. When the clock was wrong, the sent/received messages were labelled with the wrong time and are now misplaced. The only what you can do now is either to clear the whole chat history or to try to correct the wrong timestamp of the misplaced messages or just delete them.
http://community.skype.com/t5/The-Skype-Lounge/Delete-a-conversation/m-p/743928#M56527

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