Stuck on "Updating Conversation" or "connecting"

Recently Skype has become slower with connecting. It is now stuck on "Updating Conversation" I would have to close it and reopened the app to have it connect but this time its not working. Even though the conversation is already synced to the latest or last message it still "updating conversation". So right now Skype is unusable for me.

Kris_TinTin about Skype for iPhone, v6.34.1