Skype Outage Leaves 20 Million Users Voiceless
Skype Outage Leaves 20 Million Users Voiceless
Posted 12/23/2010 at 8:02am
| by Paul Lilly
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Did you have trouble logging into Skype yesterday? If so, you're far from alone, because so did around 20 million other users, all victims to a temporary outage in which "some of you may be having problems signing in," Skype acknowledged in a Twitter post.
Later on, Skype issued a follow-up tweet that read, "Our engineers and site operations team are working non-stop to get things back to normal."
In a blog post on Wednesday, Skype blamed the screw-up on a problem affecting "a large number of supernodes," though didn't get into specifics.
"Unfortunately, today, many of [the supernodes] were taken offline by a problem affecting some versions of Skype," the company wrote in a blog post. "As Skype relies on being able to maintain contact with supernodes, it may appear offline for you.
"What are we doing to help? Our engineers are creating new 'mega-supernodes' as fast as they can, which should gradually return things to normal."
Anyone still having trouble signing into Skype? Hit the jump and let us know.
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Kethsar
December 23, 2010 at 2:35pm
My Skype has been up since somewhat late last night. Though, it was still phasing in and out for some of my contacts.
Baer
December 23, 2010 at 1:16pm
I have had cell phones since the early 80's but I still would never be without a landline. Landlines are cheap and they are insurance. If your cell and web web connection is down and you have an emergency you are screwed. Can't happen? think again.
ShyLinuxGuy
December 23, 2010 at 12:39pm
I told my mom when I get my first apartment, I am going to have Skype instead of a landline. I already have Skype, but there's no way I'm going to have old-fashioned landline. Of course, being old-fashioned, my mom said she's going to make me get a landline because she says "I'll need it." What 19-year-old wants a landline? They're soooooo 19xx-ish. Skype FTW.
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