So did Skype recently get more broken (Terribad, awful, shocking)? Is it possible?

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In the end i reinstalled it completely and it seems to be slightly better. I'm going to look into the methods of dealing with the ads to try and get it down from it's current 250-300MB usage. *sigh*

As a side note, installing older versions of skype doesn't work for me. I just get the old 'Messaging Unavailible' in chats. Surprisingly the browser version actually works quite well, if not a bit iffy as for some reason the " is @ and i use a UK Standard keyboard setup. To be honest i just wish the lazy saps at Microsoft would code it to the point the client version isn't shocking.