If you were hoping to complete your long-distance holiday calls a little early this week, you're out of luck: Skype has gone down and the outage is affecting millions of users.
The company posted to Twitter about an hour ago acknowledging the outage, and lots of users are complaining via Twitter.
Update: Skype gave an explanation of the outage in a blog post, but in a touch of fitting irony, that post is now inaccessible. Apparently, the post blames the outage on failing "mega-supernodes," which are clusters of peer-to-peer connections. A problem in the Skype software apparently took some of these nodes offline. Skype's engineers are working on building new ones.
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