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Re: Google outage – resolved

#433
Gmail and Youtube are back online for me. Hangouts is beach balling. There is a warning at the top of my screen though.

"Gmail is temporarily unable to access your Contacts. You may experience issues while this persists."

Re: Google outage – resolved

#434
post #256

But why is HN so slow? Pages take like 30+ seconds to load for me (German vantage point, other sites are fine). Does it timeout on some Google dependency or try to use a Google submarine cable or something? Or is everyone just posting to HN about it?

If memory serves, HN is hosted on a relatively lightweight server configuration.

Re: Google outage – resolved

#435

edit: added details edit: redacted my phone number edit: big mistake to add phone number edit: I think illic is right, probably not me edit: removed details

If you are right; congrats! you just got few googlers fired!

Re: Google outage – resolved

#437
post #24

Just checked https://www.google.com/appsstatus all green, which does not reflect reality for me (e.g. Gmail is down) edit: shows how incredibly difficult introspection is

Mistakes happen... that page is probably still correct 99,9999% of the time! /s

These uptime numbers cloud providers gives out can't be nowhere near actual uptime.

Re: Google outage – resolved

#438
post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Google should write an AI application that checks on HN if their systems are working and display the result live on their status page. That would be more reliable than the current system they have in place (which is obviously not working at all).

won't help when the ai service itself is down.

Re: Google outage – resolved

#439

It's also weird the page title with "Error 500 (Server Error)!!1" - Why !!1 at the end of it?

Internet jargon; when a commenter is overly excited, they tend to overuse exclamation points. In the rush to add many exclamation points, the shift key might not be held down for all of them.

So you end up with things like "OMG!!!!111"

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