Hi all, don't worry, i just made a new outlook account, and i am closing the old account. if any one want's to add me on skype who had me there previously, please send me a PM

I'd like to know how to find this actually, I have like 11300 forks that don't all go off, but they do lag things.

Good grief. Who does that?
I used skype for about eight years, and never got forked. Not once.

I do use skype eight. But it still kind of does lag a tiny bit.

@6: he was propably a part of the fork where destructatrons account had been hacked and a bot took control of it that then kepd forking all his contacts(including me) for ever. I am just happy i was awake and on my comp at the time, so i could stop it and got only like 60 groups.

Hello,
Using split screen mode mostly fixes the lag issue. I agree, feedback is neded so they know about this problem.

Like usual I don't suffer the performane penalty that you guys say is there. Don't know why, I'm on skype 8.51 (I think that's the version...). Was it fixed?

The only issue with split screen, which I'm sure will get fixed eventually, is that when you're in a conversation, if you leave the window open for awhile NVDA tends to lose focus, and no matter what you do you can't read the most recent message that was sent unless you close and reopen the conversation. Since this is much more preferable to dealing with lag, not to mention I always liked split screen view in Skype 7, I don't mind it that much. I also agree with others who are skeptical about this forking crap. I can't believe people are still talking about it, seeing as how I didn't even think Skype 7 was usable anymore. not to mention that I never even heard of forking until a certain subset of this community started talking about it like it was some sort of plague that was going to destroy us all, but whatever.

It's cool that they're reintroducing split view. Now it just needs to be made so chat windows pop up when someone starts or updates one while the main window is minimized, since having chat windows open all the time is just meh. Maybe one day.

Oh God this. Trying to go back through chat history in a large group sucks, and the lag when opening conversations only adds to the annoyance. Plus, I have to press enter on a chat several times before it opens. Skype 7 was amazing compared to this mess.

Edit: Added the enter key not opening chats bug.

Not really. A lot of functionality was lost in the transition over to Skype 8. Reviewing chat history has always been a drag, and now I can't select an entire conversation, copy it into notepad and get an easy-to-read log of the conversation like I could in Skype 7. The notification sounds are really easy to miss sometimes, and you cannot change them without making modifications to program files. In split window view, I can't tell if a message has been sent because NVDA doesn't announce "message sent", which is frustrating because I have a tendency to accidentally hit the enter key sometimes and don't know I sent the message until I look back. Chat commands have been severely limited, and for some asinine reason Skype now automatically sets everyone you add to a chat as admin. There is no global hotkey support unless you use the Windows Store version (no thank you). And those are just off the top of my head.

The enter key not opening a chat seems to happen only right after Skype is restarted. To get around that, just tab or shift+tab and back again.

I also notice that Skype doesnt' always read out messages when they're received while Skype is in focus. It's inconsistent and I can't figure out what even causes it in the first place.

There also appears to be something at the very bottom of the window that acts as a sort of history for spoken messages. Not sure what that's about, but sometimes it starts reading when tabbing to the window.