What Do Users Want Skype To Be?

This is a question to the rest of the Skype userbase: what do you want skype to be for you?
I'll start it off.
1) I want skype to be a free and minimalist text messenger, group chat, conference call and conference video call client. All functionality should be around optimizing the experience of these 4 activities. That means streamlined functionality for these purposes--fast, error free, no disconnects, no user problems. It also means no superfluous functionality--ads, unecessarily complex emoticons, bulky left panel that can't be separated from the individual chats, etc.
2) I want chat to be compact and minimalist, or at least customizable so I can make it minimalist (no bulky chat bubbles, not even on mobile--it's even worse on mobile where pixel real-estate is more valuable than on a 1080 monitor).
3) I want no ads. Microsoft is a big enough company that they can market some higher quality version of skype for professional use. But there must remain free and available chat, group chat, conference call and conference video call for an unlimited number of users. Find another way to make money or an open-source alternative will undercut you.
4) The mobile app MUST be severely streamlined. It is easily one of the worst, bulkiest, slowest, most poorly designed apps I've used. It autoscrolls when new messages are sent which means I can't read logs without being interrupted. It crashes frequently. It uses more memory and CPU time than any other app despite being one of the simplest and feature-poor apps on my phone.
5) Make the UI less bulky. There is so much dead space on the skype UI. The actual chat represents only ~50% of the actual volume of the UI when at a reasonable size. The left side-bar is too big, especially with no hideable functionality. The titlebars, ads, and even text box all have huge, white dead-zones.
Bottom line: streamline the Skype codebase, streamline the UI, streamline the options we have as users and stop adding/removing/breaking things each update just to appear fresh. Keep what works, fix what doesn't.

The most active thread on this issue is at
http://community.skype.com/t5/Windows-desktop-client/7-0-and-your-feedback-on-the-new-chat-UI/td-p/3...
That is actually a link to page 2, where I posted some comparison images showing that "compact" mode only shows about 20% more information, and some suggestions for a "truly compact" mode.
Zhuinden has been doing a sterling job posting instructions on how to downgrade to 6.21 (and make it stick) until version 7.0 is fixed. Here's a link:
http://community.skype.com/t5/Windows-desktop-client/Skype-6-22-update-is-the-worst-app-I-ve-ever-se...
Sean Ellis - uses Skype chat for serious work
Click here to read my blog post on Skype 7 and basic principles of GUI design

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