We’re definitely not up in France, we had a couple of flickers earlier in the day, but that seems to faded with my hopes of seeing SKYPE up and running during today.

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No luck in Germany, or Finland. Japan isn’t up either as far as I heard.
It is interesting to notice that earlier this day the skype seemed like it had properly login, it even showed the number of peolple signed in, which was about 6.000. Sure I wasnt really login as I couldnt do anything. Now it doesnt even get past the sign-in screen.
They have at least changed something.
I really wonder whether the cause of this was DDOS attack or something to do with the maintenance. Or maybe its just a very rare coincidence that the problems and maintenance occurred at the same time.. maybe? Still, lets hope they get it up tomorrow.
However, Skype is a free service, so we shouldnt complain too much. They could bascially stop providing such free service anytime they want. *except the SkypeOut.
And so far, the Skype has been surprisingly reliable. Eventually troubles like these are bound to happen..
But I really want to use it…

18:30 GMT in London, still not able to log in after two days. No news on the SKYPE website I have credit in my skype out account that I may request back if this goes on any longer. This is definately a DOS attack, by lying about it Skype are just losing the trust of their subscribers.

Hey Susan and readers,

thank you for the mention of Jajah, much appreciated!

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