Skype says it is currently in the process of “addressing” a “configuration problem” that unceremoniously disconnected a number of users from the popular service.
“We are seeing indications that the situation is improving,” Skype rep Peter Parkes wrote in an official blog post.
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“If you were disconnected from Skype earlier, you shouldn’t need to manually sign back in to Skype – it should reconnect automatically when it’s able to do so. We apologize for the disruption to your conversations.”
Earlier this morning, Parkes confirmed the mass disconnects, claiming a “small number” of users (*cough*) may have experienced problems signing in to Skype.
It should be noted that Skype suffered a massive outage last December, which was caused by the failure of thousands of “supernodes” tasked with aggregating and routing traffic. This was supposedly triggered by a software update.
About a week ago, there was yet another outage. Though somewhat less widespread, it lasted for most of a day.