Google Calendar is down • Hacker News Board

j45 wrote: post #30

fny wrote: post #29

English, Japanese, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Portugese, Chinese (zh-Hant), Chinese (zh), Polish, Swedish, Danish, Korean, Russain, Norwegian, Finnish, Turkish. It's fun to ponder why they picked that order and why other popular languages didn't make the cut.

Likely their top internationalized user bases.

Yeah that's how we do it. Group customer by language, sort by count.

Re: Google Calendar is down

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Post by masnick » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 2:56 PM UTC

One of the reasons I use FastMail (https://fastmail.com) for email and calendar rather than Google is that when outages happen, the explain what is going on (http://www.fastmailstatus.com). Outages are inevitable, so having (a) information and (b) the ability to contact a human are valuable features IMO.

Re: Google Calendar is down

#38

Post by whamlastxmas » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 3:02 PM UTC

masnick wrote: post #37

One of the reasons I use FastMail ( https://fastmail.com ) for email and calendar rather than Google is that when outages happen, the explain what is going on ( http://www.fastmailstatus.com ). Outages are inevitable, so having (a) information and (b) the ability to contact a human are valuable features IMO.

They also just pushed out the invitation detecting thing that Google has had for quite a while that lets you add stuff to your calendar quickly. Sadly I still use Google's calendar despite having Fastmail because it's just a lot better.

Re: Google Calendar is down

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Post by zeven7 » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 3:02 PM UTC

010a wrote: post #25

riscy wrote: post #11

> Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. This page checks to see if it's really you sending the requests, and not a robot. I wonder if they're getting attacked.

I got this one for the first time today as well, minutes before the site went down.

Same.

Re: Google Calendar is down

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Post by hilbertspac3 » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 3:05 PM UTC

masnick wrote: post #37

One of the reasons I use FastMail ( https://fastmail.com ) for email and calendar rather than Google is that when outages happen, the explain what is going on ( http://www.fastmailstatus.com ). Outages are inevitable, so having (a) information and (b) the ability to contact a human are valuable features IMO.

Google has explained what is going on:

https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=2&iid=84...