Highly unusual for Skype, the service has been down for a couple of days now.

I’m not moaning — I don’t really use Skype much except for a bit of instant messaging — but I thought there was a slight irony to their “Heartbeat” page this morning:

This shows that SkypeOut, SkypeIn, Skype Voicemail, and Skype SMS, are all working normally – however, it’s near impossible to log in to use them.

Maybe there are secret ways in that I don’t know about, but on my Mac I can’t even keep the Skype client loaded for more than about 10 minutes before it crashes.

I know they’re working on it — and to be honest it’s actually quite nice not being disturbed.

How are you coping without Skype?