Skype is down. Woe is Skype. Currently its millions of users (including me) are unable to log in to the service.
Skype staffer Villu Arak left the following on the company blog:
Some of you may be having problems logging into Skype. Our engineering team has determined that it’s a software issue. We expect this to be resolved within 12 to 24 hours. Meanwhile, you can simply leave your Skype client running and as soon as the issue is resolved, you will be logged in. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Curiously, the post is tagged “News, Events, Milestones”. I’m not so sure they’re going to want to remember this as a milestone but, hey, I’m just a guy with a keyboard and no Skype access.
Skype suffers major software glitch [Globe and Mail]
Skype login problems [Skype Blog]
argh. Thanks for the update, have been using skype for IM.. this is a real bummer. At least I switched to Jangl for phone calls
Yeah, I can’t seem to sign in either. Sucks…
I have experienced this first hand, at first I thought it was my computer or internet connection until I figured out it was skype itself (!?!?!?) - anyways, they are better then a land line any day so they will continue to live in a special area of my desktop.
Jon
Today, Friday afternoon GMT, my Skype is stil down (Mac OSX). It worked for a while about 10 hours ago or so.