Some improvements but still not good

We asked to have the "status" brought back. You listened partially. Now I have a green dot showing who is available to chat but that isnt the case. The program seems to be very slow at updating to see whose available and not available. Example: 3 am I look to see whose available to chat, one contact I know who isnt available at that time shows available and it doesnt update for 15 minutes.

It would be nice if we can change our own status. Id like to be able to change mine to away or available or offline or invisible. Id like to be able to see whose online without being shown as available to chat. Kinda like the invisible feature of the old Skype. Why do you show how long ago someone last viewed their Skype? That makes no sense to me.

All of the fancy highlights, finds and captures features seems useless to me. I dont utilize them. The icons for contacts, videoing, calling, etc... needs to be a little bigger. They are still way to small.

Time stamps for each individual message would be wonderful again. This was very useful. Seeing a "sent" message under our messages was a handy feature as well. Now I dont know if my message was sent or not. Id also like to see a feature of if the message was received and viewed by the person Im messaging. The space where you type a message at seems to only show 4-5 lines of message being sent to other person. So much wasted space still at the top and bottom of the screen.

Kinda worried about Skype for iPhone, v8.3