Skype outage

After promoting the service to friends and colleagues it's a bit annoying when Skype no longer works.

Hey Skype, you're a telco now. Telcos focus on things like reliability and minimising risk, not adding new flaky features all the time.

The simple equation for basic communication service is:

"Happy Users => More Happy Users"

... not to be confused with:

"More New Features => More Users"

But if you have a company organised around creating more software/features, then that becomes a goal in itself, and very difficult to stop - and unhelpful if you're a telco and not a software development company.