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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by yorwba on Thursday March 08, 2018 @12:37AM (#16542546)
The current iteration of Skype for Linux is a bloated web/Electron app. I really liked the bare-bones interface of the previous version and would have loved to opt out of animated emoji and the other UI changes, but not updating a program that's continuously connected to the internet didn't feel like a good idea.
Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by Kliment on Thursday March 08, 2018 @04:09AM (#16543260)
ghetto-skype is a less bloated version of same, works well, uses way less resources

https://github.com/stanfieldr/ghetto-skype