Skype down (it really is)

D.P. · 21 Sep 2015 at 17:55

Anyone else affected by this?
Screwed up our weekly meeting at work, and we have a skype interview planned later for today we had to postpone.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...internet-calls-go-down-in-many-countries.html

Jim99 · 21 Sep 2015 at 17:57

Yep. Is it linked to the AWS thing I read about?

wesley · 21 Sep 2015 at 17:58

Yep didn't worked for me earlier

rhysduck · 21 Sep 2015 at 18:00

Surely you have another means of conducting meetings / interviews and not just Skype?

Jim99 · 21 Sep 2015 at 18:02

rhysduck said:
Surely you have another means of conducting meetings / interviews and not just Skype?

Even if you did, it would be pretty hard to get a candidate to set up an alternative solution at the very last minute, assuming video is a must

ChroniC · 21 Sep 2015 at 18:15

Been working fine for me all day?

D.P. · 21 Sep 2015 at 18:15

rhysduck said:
Surely you have another means of conducting meetings / interviews and not just Skype?

Easier just to postpone things. The interviewee didn't have a Google+ account making google chat harder. Facetime doesn't allow multiple connections, at ;east it didn't the last time we looked, and none of us have facetime accounts.

We could call but it is much nicer to meet face to face, and for the interview we sometimes will write stuff on a white board, or get the candidate to sketch something on paper (or we will).

Ghosteh · 21 Sep 2015 at 18:20

Has been down all day pretty much, only just appears to be coming back now.

MrSniper · 21 Sep 2015 at 21:47

Been down for a day and my team speak blew up as I put it out there for people to use so they can carry on communicating while Skype is down

pepp77 · 21 Sep 2015 at 21:50

And this is why you should host your own video conferencing

Send the interviewee a link and a passcode, they can then join on a tablet, mobile phone, laptop (basically anything with a mic and camera).

koooowweeee · 21 Sep 2015 at 21:54

Hangouts ?

russell664 · 21 Sep 2015 at 22:56

Yeah was down, just left it for a bit, restarted my PC and BAM! it signed in.

kayomani · 21 Sep 2015 at 23:00

Down for a few hours earlier but its been fine the last couple

Andrew_McP · 22 Sep 2015 at 08:10

I use Skype to support my mother, who's 200 miles away and sadly well down the road towards dementia, and it was only yesterday that I realised how dependent we'd both become on Skype and it's ability to accept incoming calls without any input from my mother.

Fortunately Google hangouts came to the rescue, set it up at both ends via Teamviewer.

nutcase · 22 Sep 2015 at 08:12

They said the web version worked fine?

Only ever used skype once so don't really know much about it.

ChrisJSY · 22 Sep 2015 at 08:14

From what I saw it wasn't actually down, it was perpetually showing everyone offline and trying to connect but everyone I spoke to could still talk to each other.

jon86 · 22 Sep 2015 at 08:16

It was fine for me in SoCal. Maybe they need to feed the hamsters in Europe a bit more.

ED209 · 22 Sep 2015 at 08:16

i have managed to login to Skype today without any issues

Goldy · 22 Sep 2015 at 08:19

It was down for me all of yesterday. Back on now.

Pretty serious outage by the looks of it.

Ghosteh · 22 Sep 2015 at 08:30

ChrisJSY said:
From what I saw it wasn't actually down, it was perpetually showing everyone offline and trying to connect but everyone I spoke to could still talk to each other.

Half of our US team couldn't get online through the client on any of their devices, some where online on mobile, but couldn't do PC/Laptop.

I was able to speak directly to most people, and a few of the group channels I was on, but unable to send messages to other channels.

And I couldn't dial our works 0800 conference number through Skype either.

It was all over the place lol.