Often players are shown as the standard "steve" skin. I believe this is due to frequent outages with skins.minecraft.net.
Can something be done to fix the fragility of the skin system.
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I understand the problem, I even mention it within the description. It doesn't mean that the frequent outage isn't a bug that needs to be fixed. It can be a mojang server-side bug causing the frequent outages. Or inadequate capacity, that would also be a defect.
Apologies. Please direct me to the bug tracking system for the skin server. I'll open the ticket there.
It could also be viewed as a bug that the client doesn't cache the skins it successfully got in the past when it is unable to connect to the skin server.
The Minecraft Skin Service is down. You will need to wait until it's back.
The services statues are on help.mojang.com.
I'm not reporting that the service is down. I'm reporting that it's a bug that the service is frequently down, and that the client doesn't handle the outage gracefully. (I would classify gracefully as using previously found skins)
When a player successfully logs in (and the skin server is up) the skin should be cached and used as a fallback if the skin server is down for some reason.
This isn't a bug, look at help.mojang.com. You will see what's the problem. 😃