Skype down or not working? Current app problems and status

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Skype reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Skype users through our website.

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Skype Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  therleastmsa (@therealretsam) reported 4 minutes ago

  @rezzxd @Slasher microsoft ruined skype and everyone stopped using it microsoft ruined mixer by shutting it down shortly after getting it

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  TryhardTechy (@TryhardTechy) reported 6 minutes ago

  @discord i just heard about the proposition by Microsoft to buy you out. as a long time user of discord and former user of skype there is no comparison as to how much better discord is. please for the love of everything good and all of us users turn Microsoft down! save discord!

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  whiskeynt (@whiskeynt) reported 8 minutes ago

  @AttackOfTheAfro Remember you said that. They've been tryin to shove that **** down our throats for years. Now they'll **** up discord and call it the new skype. Just watch.

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  Storm the 😷 = ❤️ Gryphon (@StormGryphon) reported 8 minutes ago

  @NoxyBurd They have Skype already... If they had properly upgraded and marketed it we wouldn't have stuff like Zoom But they will probably end up buying Discord because they have the cash and will put it under their empire. May help. May not. Depends on how they fund it.

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  Generalkidd 🏳️‍🌈 (@Generalkidd) reported 9 minutes ago

  @CoolKidJoeXBL @XcloudTimdog Well to be fair, Skype was used to replace MSN Messenger and is now used in enterprise in the form of Teams which evolved from Skype for Business. It's also available on Xbox as an alternative to party chat whenever that's down or unavailable.

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  Marlön (@Eon1One) reported 11 minutes ago

  @simplygastly Well as far as I am aware skype is doing pretty well, it's tech is being used access all of MS and it's a very popular Customizable service for Telepresence in the business industry also Teams = Skype v2 but not named so.

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  BraveGun (@gun_brave) reported 12 minutes ago

  @G27Status They already have Skype. Why don't they use that 10 billion dollars to fix their existing apps?

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  eko (@ekowrestling88) reported 14 minutes ago

  @foxyfrehley Mfs gonna try and make it into Skype. Their app so dead they gotta go buy and ruin apps, they down bad

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  CudaCore - Cₒₒₖᵢₑₛ (@CudaCoreRoo) reported 14 minutes ago

  If Microsoft actually buys Discord that's the definition of having money but no brains. They had Skype monopolized for years, lost out as soon as competition came up, and for all the money they're worth they couldn't fix their own platform. **** off Microsoft.

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  Rob M. | Tokkan (@tokkanram) reported 15 minutes ago

  Microsoft clumsily merging Skype and MSN messenger into a single service ended up being a massive failure. To be wary of the very idea of Microsoft buying Discord is a smart position to take.

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  pastel paz (@pastelpazora) reported 17 minutes ago

  real talk if microsoft buys discord ima delete it from the computer as a whole lmaoooo discord already constantly has issues for me (esp with streaming), why would i stick around after I was already there for what they did to skype

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  1 New Notification (@Lee_Morgan7) reported 18 minutes ago

  @tha_rami skype is being shut down in july

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  Generalkidd 🏳️‍🌈 (@Generalkidd) reported 19 minutes ago

  @KevinKoolxHalo @Hayden_G230 Actually Skype is pretty well integrated with Xbox and it's a very good alternative whenever party chat is down or having issues. But yeah Skype could've been so much more.

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  Faust (@faustreaper) reported 20 minutes ago

  @ArilynaMusic like skype i never had any trouble with it, but why not. of the 3 name of the article is the only one that basically does the hardware console

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  Martine 🌺 (@dyingmathmajor) reported 22 minutes ago

  @business Instead of trying to acquire Discord, @Microsoft should try to fix its Teams feature (and Skype).

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  H. I. Lee {Ayet} (@Ayetlee17) reported 23 minutes ago

  @cloro_2nd Skype shut down and replace with MFST

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  Thomas J Celles (@thomasjcelles) reported 24 minutes ago

  @RyanPWright @StarboyFiFi First Skype now discord 😔 they’re sniping everyone to shove Teams down our throat

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  Shaddy (@ShaddyyD) reported 24 minutes ago

  @GILx87 @business Thats what everyone initially thought when microsoft acquired skype back in the day, but they literally ruined the app and service into the ground, then discord was made and everyone moved over there.

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  Citizen97 (@ZuldaFTW) reported 26 minutes ago

  @Microsoft stay away from @discord, Skype was just terrible

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  Tanner (@ReiTheWeretiger) reported 30 minutes ago

  @cactaur Plus they already own Skype. Why do the need two of pretty much the same service.

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  Toj0 (@TheToj0) reported 30 minutes ago

  @surfacage But they would exactly do that. Its exactly what happened to skype, they tried to homegenize it without fixing fundemental problems. And we already have MS Teams its called Slack

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  Capp00 (@Capp00) reported 33 minutes ago

  @theurparanoid Probably. I just don't want all the banner ads and ****** audio, just like when they took over skype. Man, I used skype for everything back in the day. Then it turned into a **** and now I can't even login because I have on idea what MS account they created for it.

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  Imperium (@imperialflame) reported 41 minutes ago

  @Slasher No thanks. I've been using discord almost every day for over 4 years now. I'd rather not have the platform fall victim to Microsoft's terrible management like they did with Skype and Mixer.

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  🍩TechnoGhost2124 (@TechnoGhost2124) reported 41 minutes ago

  @meansary321 Yea it was mostly advertising for their video chat service when Zoom started to boom either way rip Skype

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  EDMIRE (@EDMIRE2k) reported 42 minutes ago

  @WeaponizedRage Skype is the same. Wym. Same crappy video service.

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  Arilin Thorferra (@gc_arilin) reported 42 minutes ago

  @SalameleonAD @conejitogigante I don't think it's going to go the way of Skype; as Conejito's mentioned, very different folks running MSFT now, and they're more likely to treat it like GitHub. I *doubt* they'll kill the standalone service, either; Discord's consciously broadened past gamers recently.

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  Sherome (@sheromeaw) reported 42 minutes ago

  @AndaIus @business MS has been wanting to acquire Discord for the longest since the service practically killed their own service Skype.

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  Coliver, Winter's Envoy (@ColiverXYZ) reported 48 minutes ago

  @Microsoft buying @Discord probably wouldn't be the end of the world but they have an awful track record with this stuff. In 2011 Microsoft bought Skype and integrated it into their own popular chat service (MSN Messenger). Skype went downhill after that and its a joke now.

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  🦌 Origameden 🦌 (@edenadyk) reported 49 minutes ago

  the biggest problem with alternatives is that you absolutely need a ton more useful features that the thing you're making an alternative for doesn't have (like discord compared to skype) or else it will be irrelevant

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  Laden (@LadenHard) reported 53 minutes ago

  @RZ_172 @Slasher Skype is bad for general users, but it was really good for companies, for a really huge time frame, and it was where the money was. Google just kills every project, or abandons it, and having everything linked to a gmail account is terrible