I got an email from the company behind one of the mail clients I use, saying I was on an old version, which would no longer be supported. They recommended I update. While in the Play Store, I figured I may as well update some other apps. One of them was Skype. That was a mistake.

Updating Skype logged me out of my account. I haven’t had to login to Skype in years. I couldn’t even remember my information. Eventually, it came back to me, but, lo and behold, now they are requiring account verification, and, of course, the information I need for that is on my old, dead laptop. I was locked out for about a day.

Later, I figured out a way to get back in through the Microsoft Outlook website. I remembered they bought Skype a long time ago. Even though I can open Skype again, I can’t do anything useful, like add funds to my Skype-to-phone service, for 30 days. This is supposedly to protect from someone else taking over a user’s account. I swear, one day I’m gonna stop using all this stuff, draw with pencil and paper, and call it a day.

If you have an app that works, and does everything you want, don’t update it until it breaks.