Skype Status checks

mewso

Basically I click on a thread to continue from where I left off scroll down and after about a minute it pops back up to the post I started from because it only then finally finished getting a response from skype. How about doing the skype check asynchronously with ajax or something so it doesn't affect this? Maybe it is asynchronous and this is browser behaviour regardless but if not it would be worth doing imo.

Zaph

I've no idea what any of that means, but it looks more suited to Site Development.

Moved from Feedback.

Myrddin

I added mystatus.skype.com to my hosts file to exclude it, works a charm. Got sick of pages hanging for what seemed like ages, me reading through posts, then the page springing back to the start again.

Assuming its Win 7 you're using, navigate to:

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
Run notepad as an Administrator
Open the hosts file within that Notepad you just opened
Add "127.0.0.1 mystatus.skype.com" to the end of the file, without quotes
Save the file & exit

Enjoy!

Edit - Don't do this if you need to use Skype obviously

Boards.ie: Rónán

We'll take a look into our current implementation and overall usage during the week. Thanks for the heads up.

Boards.ie: Danny

Due to the slow response times from the SkypeWeb service we've disabled the checks. If a user has Skype on their profile you'll just see a Skype icon but no online/offline check will be performed. Thanks for the bug reports.

Danny