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Re: Google outage – resolved

#242
At times like this I am thankful of running a Google takeout periodically.

Not because I use it as a live failover for Google services, but because these outages are good reminders of the mortality of online services.

Re: Google outage – resolved

#244

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is all green if you do not need to be logged in . If you are logged in, the page crashes with an error. You can still browse all services from Incognito (which for some is not an option).

Are you saying the Google status page is correct then? Being logged in is part of being green I’d think. Also, you can’t use many parts of Gmail, Drive, Photos, etc, without being logged in.

I think it just means the status page itself is not logged in. Apparently it should be...

Re: Google outage – resolved

#248
post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN is my goto status page when these things happen, never failed to provide up-to-date reliable information.

Seems like everyone going on HN now. The site is so slow

Interesting cascade effect of sites going down! I wonder where people will go next to check if HN is down?

Also wondering if this is perhaps the fastest upvoted HN post ever? 8 mins -> ~350 votes, 15 mins -> ~750 votes. I wonder if @dang could chime in with some stats?

Update: looks like it hit 1000 upvotes in ~25 mins!

Update: 1500 in ~40 mins

Update: 2000 in ~1 hour 20 mins (used the HN API for the timestamp)

Re: Google outage – resolved

#249

The fact it seems to be related to login reminds me of the Tom Scott doomsday fictional lecture which I would link to but you know...

Oh yeah that talk was crazy!!

It's been ages (literally) since I felt so helplessly out of a conversation not being able to check a reference instantaneously.

Weird feeling...

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