The words we've all been waiting for
By
Villu Arak on August 18, 2007 in News, Events, Milestones.
Hello friends,
Take a deep breath. Skype is back to normal.
On Monday, we’ll provide a more detailed explanation of what happened. Until then, we’d like to apologize and thank you. Precisely in that order. We know how difficult and frustrating the past two days have been. And still, your good wishes kept flowing in. Thank you for the amazing patience, trust and support!
(Posted at 11am GMT)






Comments
These must have been two amazing days for you guys
Congrats on bringing Skype back
lordoflamers | Saturday, Aug 18
Yes guys...once again, thank you for working day and night on this problem! I am sure you've done the best you could. Thank you.
peta220 | Saturday, Aug 18
The service is still down in Montreal Canada.
weatherhelm | Saturday, Aug 18
I had to call forward all my skypein calls for the last 2 days to my landline. Luckily I picked up the service was going down in time to make the change. I hope Skype is going to refund my credit for having to do this.
ukholidayjobs.com | Saturday, Aug 18
I had to call forward all my skypein calls for the last 2 days to my landline. Luckily I picked up the service was going down in time to make the change. I hope Skype is going to refund my credit for having to do this.
ukholidayjobs.com | Saturday, Aug 18
Can someone explain me why I cannot add user whose Skype name and e-mail I know. I am receiving that does not exist. But I know it does. Please answer meeeeeeeeeeeee!
zookeeper9 | Saturday, Aug 18
They may be blocking your attempts to add them !!
jason.dk | Saturday, Aug 18
I would like to join those who have signed in here to say thank you. You've worked hard for us all. Thanks guys!!!!!!
andrea.nagy2 | Saturday, Aug 18
Well done you guys at Skype for fixing and coping so well with the last 2 days
I told people that you had problems if they asked, I had faith in you guys and you did us all proud 
Well done Skype!
yoshi132045 | Saturday, Aug 18
Thanks Skype for working day and night on the sign in problem.
timothy9878 | Saturday, Aug 18
Well Villu it seems NOT everyone is up and running. I live in Wiltshire,England and SKYPE is still NOT WORKING for me. Cannot do a TEST CALL or in fact do very much other than look at comments such as yours that say ALL IS WELL when quite clearly it is NOT.
Do you have any printable suggestions how or what I can do to get SKYPE working again ?
dan513d | Saturday, Aug 18
Still down in San Diego, CA.
esmestefan | Saturday, Aug 18
OK, OK, Best Friends Forever!!1!11!! LOL!
Now let's hear from Mr. NZ!
temp90919293 | Saturday, Aug 18
Guys, we love you; thank you for your responsibility and serious approach! Good luck and take a rest
egorfine | Saturday, Aug 18
(party)
clown.boy | Sunday, Aug 19
Aw, the party smiley isn't working.
Great job, Skype!
:)
clown.boy | Sunday, Aug 19
Some people have 'one of those days'... I have 'one of those lives'! WHY did I pick THIS weekend to play around with my fancy new Skype WiFi phone? It was quite awhile before I realized it wasn't my hardware- go figure! Anyway, good luck to all working on the resolution
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remargable | Sunday, Aug 19
hello im from chile, i've a question i can't use the skypecast what happen??
thank u
felipe.herrera4 | Sunday, Aug 19
Great work and hope you are not all overdosed on pizza and coffee. FYI, very little interruption in the Western U.S. (California). I have a 6MBps Broadband connection which may help.
I personally appreciate what you have been through. As a former IT Manager and Consultant (laid-off) I have been through more than a few 24hr plus "overnighters" and "weekenders". Kudos on your dedication, efforts, continued and clear communications under extremely difficult circumstances.
Your blog introduced me to the Skype Heartbeat which do not know before.
Skype is still #1, as I tell and invite all my friends and acquaintances in the U.S.A., E.U. countries, and Latin America. I also give positive comments and commendations on technical web sites and forums.
Thanks for the extraordinary effort and excellent communications under difficult circumstances. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help (and help spread the word).
obijohn_kenobi | Sunday, Aug 19
Congrats on getting things working again - after two days of hard slog, I think it's obvious you guys were facing a pretty serious problem.
That said, Skype is now a trusted service with paid subscription (myself included). For this users come to expect a level of stability and two days of effective shut down does not land well with most.
I look forward to reading the post tomorrow to see what actually happened and what are the commitments from Skype to ensure this service remains at the front of the market.
mikedear | Sunday, Aug 19
Great job ! Thank you for your explanations and hope that you'll be abble to have a full night of sleep
dubano | Sunday, Aug 19
skype went back up sometimes yesterday afternoon for me.
first thing i did was calling my parents. it's the only way i can call them without emptying my banck account
catherine.hurbain | Sunday, Aug 19
I think it is still not working in some parts of USA. my brothers is in FL and still can't log in!
trpaskalev | Sunday, Aug 19
Hi all, 11:01 EST, still down in Orlando, FL.
Thanks for all your had work with this. I travel alot for work and SKYPE is instrumental in holding my family together so I can say good night to my wife and little girl every day. You guys are the best.
cp_giordano | Monday, Aug 20
Thanks alot
Grate job done by skype team!
Thanks once again
gvg2k6 | Tuesday, Aug 21
Hello guys,
I'm impressed by your efforts to restore the service after the big disruption.
You should know though that the system isnt' working properly everywere, like you suggest.
After the disruption I installed the last skype version - and I think it was a mistake: now the sound has an awfull quality, I can talk but nobody understand me, and the same problem occurs when somebody is trying to talk to me: the sound has many disruptions, and starting the camera worsen it.
Eventually we ended up chatting in writing.
I reinstalled the last version many times, with or w/o my antivirus program on.
When the computer logs in, I'm getting the green ellipse logo for 2-3 seconds, then is turning into the blue skype logo with a red flag.
When I'm opening the START window on my computer, the Skype program logo isn't the blue one anymore - it shows the logo like the computer doesn't know what program is supposed to use to open Skype, but when clicking on it is lunching it w/o comments.
I'm in Canada, and so far trying to talk to my brother in Europe is a nightmare.
Could you suggest me what to do to get back to the wonderful Skype I use to enjoy so much?
Wishing you good luck for the future, and thanking you for your incredible dedication to help connecting people around the world.
concordel | Tuesday, Aug 21
After the disruption I installed the last skype version, and it is not working at all. I uninstalled and reinstalled it at least 5 times. It seems to start but I cannot sign in, and the program closes.
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