Dear Skype- STOP killing the display pictures

This is more of a suggestion/complaint than anything else and I hope I'm putting this in the right place but, Skype's last update made everything look like iphone messages which also made the display pictures small as hell.
This was annoying as I like to actually LOOK at people's pictures and it's nice to have a quick visual represenation to remind you who you're talking to. I mean sure-- I can click on the image and see a larger version along with their profile info but...why should I do that? 
NOW today I log on and skype updates and they're gone COMPLETELY from the chat windows? 
WHY? WHAT REASON WAS THERE TO REMOVE THEM? The chat windows look so bland now and the only way to see display pictures is in the actual messager or when they call you, I guess. Removes a lot of the fun and point of having display pictures now. 
Why not all the time??? I remeber it allowed you to hide display pictures that you did'nt want to see, but now Skype just does it for you, all the time, forever. At least let us have the CHOICE to hide them like they are now. 
My suggestion: Bring back display pictures in the chat LARGE they USED to be before Skype had this iphone-like layout, WITH THE OPTION of making them tiny and round or removing them all together. Thanks. 
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BBoyFureyu wrote:
ruwim wrote:
No, this is not a glitch, but by-design behaviour. If you make the chat window slightly wider, profile pictures will appear.
No profile pictures:
Profile pictures shown:
This is a ridiculous workaround. Why is this even an issue? Display pictures at the top of conversation windows (at the minimum width, mind you), have been there for years, and were perfectly fine prior to the 7.3 update. What was the point of changing this?
I reverted to 7.2 as soon as I learned this was a design choice and somehow kype updated itself to 7.4 despite having automatic updates in Skype and Windows Update turned off. (Probably opened the update notification as I was typing and accidentally allowed it) I tried to reinstall 7.2 but the installer apparently couldn't connect to the server, and linked me to the main download page. Now I somehow have 7.5 on Windows and this picture issue still persists.
Why isn't this being fixed? This is an unnecessary change which might sound petty to be up in arms about, but this really irks me, as it's convenient, consistent with nearly every other messenger out there, and last year there was a problem where older group chats' display pictures would show as default and this was fixed just before they made this change. Do they even know what they're doing?
Yeah-- I agree.
I'm still annoyed by the fact that I have to choose between ridiculously wide windows (that make the avatars vanish sometimes anyway?) and nice slim windows that have icons missing for no real reason.
It's not a big enough issue for them to really 'fix' it, I suppose since it falls under the 'pet peeves' instead of actual problems category, I guess.
But yeah, bringing the avatars back as they used to be (instead of continuously making them smaller and further away and less present as time goes by) would make me happy, personally. [:

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