Great. Skype is down.
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Great. Skype is down.
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#2may be we need this :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk
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#3Yup, I was about to have a call with my advisor (across the atlantic), and neither of us could log in. I tried on an android phone and a linux box.
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#5I just needed to have a call with two people. For some reason, I could talk on Skype with one of them. The other one I called in via Gmail Voice Chat, so everybody could hear each other. Worked out great.
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#6I'm okay with this. Their last downtime was 3 years ago.
I still get robotic 'network busy' announcements from my mobile phone network, and I pay an awful lot more for that (under an infinitely more draconian contract) than I do for Skype.
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#7We switched over to Skype as our primary tool for inter-office communication(s) a few years ago. It's been a fun day.
I've actually resorted to sending out e-mails (like it was 2001, hah!)
The lack of distractions is quite nice, though. =) It's amazing how productive everyone seems to be (when we're not complaining about skype being down...)
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#8Why are we down on Skype for their first outage in three years? My cable internet, electricity and cell phone service all fail more frequently than that. Once in three years seems pretty damn reliable to me, especially considering that I pay literally nothing to use Skype.
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#9may be we need this :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk
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#10Why are we down on Skype for their first outage in three years? My cable internet, electricity and cell phone service all fail more frequently than that. Once in three years seems pretty damn reliable to me, especially considering that I pay literally nothing to use Skype.
>> ...This is getting tiresome; trusted services going down...
That statement from the OP rubbed me the wrong way. Trusted services going down are a fact of life. It is going to happen. I agree Skype's last outage was three years ago which is a good track record compared to more traditional services that you might pay a lot more for. Other "trusted" services like electricity, water, heat, transportation fail from time to time even in the most modern of cities. The key is how a company responds to it, triages it, and communicates it to their customers (i.e. with frequent updates)
Hopefully, Skype provides a postmortem describing what happened and how they fixed it.