Skype Outage

Fortunately, I haven't HAD to use Skype during the outage. Others undoubtedly were not so fortunate. Skype said:

We have detected an issue with the status settings of Skype.

Affected users will not be able to change their status, their contacts will all show as offline and they will be unable to start Skype calls to them.

Instant messages are still being delivered as usual. The status issue also doesn't affect Skype for web, which can be used to make calls and send instant messages.