More productive and useful use of time and effort than coming up with and typing in a complaint post that ultimately doesn't really do anything productive.All of that effort just to make sure you don't have to get a new version.
More productive and useful use of time and effort than coming up with and typing in a complaint post that ultimately doesn't really do anything productive.All of that effort just to make sure you don't have to get a new version.
To make sure you can keep using a perfectly functional better version
More productive and useful use of time and effort than coming up with and typing in a complaint post that ultimately doesn't really do anything productive.
Read the thread.
Seems like there's quite a bit more to it aside from the UI part of it (and the UI "fix" was a pstial workaround at best as well it would seem).The main thing I read was that people don't like he new UI, something that others posted a fix for. :\
I figured out how to keep Skype 2.8 logged in and not prompt to 'Download Now' and quit.
I monitored ingoing and outgoing connections in nettop while Skype was logging in with the following command
$ nettop -m tcp
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A subdomain for 'skype.com' quickly showed a SynSent just before the 'Download Now' window appeared.
I added 'ui.skype.com' to /etc/hosts and flushed the dns cache.
$ sudo nano /etc/hosts
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$ dscacheutil -flushcache
Now Skype 2.8 should stay logged in!