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Re: Skype Down

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Post by reuven »

alexivanovs wrote: post #10

Been down for 8+ hours here and still unable to connect. They said an hour ago that it's being rectified. [1] [1]: https://twitter.com/Skype/status/645980952930447360

They also said that this didn't affect business users. Which sounds a lot like, "Non-cheapskates didn't have any problems!"

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#12

Post by viach »

Weird, I also had troubles with Skype today and tried Hangouts - it worked very well (means not that terrible experience as usually). Coincidence?

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#14

Post by bad_user »

viach wrote: post #12

Weird, I also had troubles with Skype today and tried Hangouts - it worked very well (means not that terrible experience as usually). Coincidence?

Hangouts worked for us a couple of hours ago, but half an hour ago it stopped working, triggering errors. I believe a lot of people jumped on it and it's also having hiccups.

Also, Skype just recovered for us, we're having a call in 4 as I'm writing this. EDIT: Skype is still misbehaving.

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#15

Post by xrjn »

Still having issues connecting - a few hours ago I couldn't sign in, now I'm having trouble loading my contact list.

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Post by johansch »

That headline seems to downplay it a lot. It was totally down for at least 6 hours.

I introduced Slack to the team today...

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#17

Post by Jasper_ »

kraftman wrote: post #3

didnt skype used to be p2p so that things like this wouldnt happen?

Heavens no. Skype used to be extremely unreliable back when it was P2P-based. Calls or voice used to drop for minutes at a time. Text messages would get lost to the aether, or come in doubles or triples.

Skype peers were unreliable, so they identified good peers, which they tagged as SuperNodes, or SNs. Large amounts of these SuperNodes could go down in an instant due to network outages out of their control, buggy software, bad computers, and more. The Skype blog is full of "whoops, too many supernodes went down!" from 2008-2011.

http://web.archive.org/web/20110829025128/http://blogs.skype...

They then added dedicated "mega-supernodes" which they just shoved in an EC2 cloud, and after non-mega SN population declined as mobile took off, they just turned off the P2P-based SN feature.

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Post by kanusterkund »

johansch wrote: post #16

That headline seems to downplay it a lot. It was totally down for at least 6 hours. I introduced Slack to the team today...

Which one? The one that says "Skype Down" or the tabloid one that screams "Skype DOWN: Microsoft messenger and video chat app NOT working across the GLOBE"?

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Post by johansch »

kanusterkund wrote: post #18
johansch wrote: post #16

That headline seems to downplay it a lot. It was totally down for at least 6 hours. I introduced Slack to the team today...

Which one? The one that says "Skype Down" or the tabloid one that screams "Skype DOWN: Microsoft messenger and video chat app NOT working across the GLOBE"?

Twenty minutes ago it said "Skype down for some customers". Now both the HN title and the target website title has been edited.

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Post by Ace17 »

Jasper_ wrote: post #17
kraftman wrote: post #3

didnt skype used to be p2p so that things like this wouldnt happen?

Heavens no. Skype used to be extremely unreliable back when it was P2P-based. Calls or voice used to drop for minutes at a time. Text messages would get lost to the aether, or come in doubles or triples. Skype peers were unreliable, so they identified good peers, which they tagged as SuperNodes, or SNs. Large amounts of these SuperNodes could go down in an instant due to network outages out of their control, buggy so…

Tox-im is peer to peer, and calls work rather well (voice + video).
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