Sad but starting to abandon Skype

I have been a long time Skype customer, but today, after around two or three years of constantly declining quality, I have finally cancelled my subscription. I'm sure people will tell me to check my network settings, etc, but I'm getting a lot better results using Viber for voice and Google Talk/ Face time for video calls under the same conditions (I am in a PC/Mac/Android/IOs/Linux household, so I have tested in multiple platforms).
It didn't use to be like this. Might be my imagination, but it seems to have started when Microsoft bought it. I've always loved Skype so I do hope they turn this product around. Just putting it out there so that Skype nows that the drop in quality is being noticed, and that other users with the same problems know that there are other options now. Thanks for listening!

The last two weeks of your chat history is stored to and synce from the cloud. Deleting the chat history local to your device doesn't change that. You cannot remove the conversation history stored in the cloud, but after two weeks it will be gone and not syncing any more after you've deleted the local history. Further reading on the cloud: "What is the cloud?"
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