Group Chats are Straight Up Broken

Alright so recently I've been seeing a flood of topics with the same generic problem about legacy group chats, me being me and not wanting to go to such extremes with deleting my account entirely or recreating group conversations, I'll feed to mob to help Skype stay on their tiptoes to fix this. As for my "Unique" problem, I use Skype on both my Macbook Air and my iPhone 5c, I will get notifications for group chats on my phone and everything else normally however when I open the group chat, it only shows up to the message I received before everything broke. I can't send messages as well, though I can still talk alright to singular people. I've tried making an empty group conversation with just myself but messages won't even send in there. I've re-downloaded and taken out my Skype folder momentarily (re-downloaded on my phone too). This problem also bundles up with another one i've had before, my Skype contacts that are on their phones show as offline rather than away and half of my online contacts show as offline making it extremely hard to know who's online when I need to reach them. Now i'm not a fan of having my Skype virtually unusable due to the 5-10 group conversations I use daily, so I'd appreciate this to be fixed soon (Also this problem suddenly jumped up earlier today, nothing was changed so Skype support, don't reply with your annoying as heck automatic responses that tell me to do things that never work, i'd like this to either be fixed or get a reply from an actual representative, thank you)
EDIT: Did a bit of testing, I can still recieve group calls however I cannot start any, and I cannot send messages while in a group call. I have also left one group in an attempt to fix it although my friend on the inside said I didn't leave the group at all, even though I'm not allowed to message in it (although it wouldn't go through regardless). I can still function normal 1 on 1 chats normally but the messages seem to only send when they're online? This may be a result of me removing and readding my skype folder from the library directory

bump, problem still persists.

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