github has un-verified my account and I'm unable to merge PRs, leave comments, etc... until it's verified again.
Scary! I hope I’m not going to get any email notification until they bring it back up.
Gmail having issues
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Re: Gmail having issues
#62As quite a few googlers appear to read and write on HN, I'd really welcome an insider info on what's going on the last few days. Sure there will be some internal turmoil going on right now, but isn't there some non-confidential info to share? Can't imagine this will hurt the image of google neither in the short nor long run, quite the opposite.
I would advice anyone to not share any information that his company hasn't agreed explicitely to share.
Re: Gmail having issues
#63As quite a few googlers appear to read and write on HN, I'd really welcome an insider info on what's going on the last few days. Sure there will be some internal turmoil going on right now, but isn't there some non-confidential info to share? Can't imagine this will hurt the image of google neither in the short nor long run, quite the opposite.
In lieu of an actual Googler, how about some educated speculation? It blows my mind that Google can even have problems like this. Aren't their apps highly distributed across tons of CDNs? Don't they have world class Devops people that roll out changes in a piecemeal fashion to check for bugs? How exactly can they have an issue that can affect a huge swath of their customers across countries? Insight appreciated.
Re: Gmail having issues
#64As quite a few googlers appear to read and write on HN, I'd really welcome an insider info on what's going on the last few days. Sure there will be some internal turmoil going on right now, but isn't there some non-confidential info to share? Can't imagine this will hurt the image of google neither in the short nor long run, quite the opposite.
I wonder if Gmail is just not a very well maintained codebase. Here's an issue where old emails just become inaccessible. Not fixed for over a year and they've locked the thread so I'm starting to wonder if they actually deleted the emails by mistake.
https://support.google.com/mail/thread/6187016
Maybe time to switch to a more reliable provider.
Re: Gmail having issues
#65As quite a few googlers appear to read and write on HN, I'd really welcome an insider info on what's going on the last few days. Sure there will be some internal turmoil going on right now, but isn't there some non-confidential info to share? Can't imagine this will hurt the image of google neither in the short nor long run, quite the opposite.
Since so little time has passed since the last issue, I am wondering if it could be the same cause. Maybe they didn’t fix it properly the first time.
Re: Gmail having issues
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I get that. But why punish the Desktop users with mobile interface? We used to punish Mobile users with Desktop interface back then, we just reversed the problem, didn't actually solve it. They should be 2 separate things. 2 separate css files with @media select. 2 separate button sizes and styles. I know what happened - designers got lazy.
Yeah, I like rich, data-heavy, information dense desktop displays. Mobile UIs are such garbage, not to mention shit like reddit that only is able to process a request 30% of the time.
Re: Gmail having issues
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Blimey, why use a free Gmail account for a business critical operation? That's just asking for trouble.
They may be using the paid, enterprise G Suite/Google Workspace Gmail: https://workspace.google.com/products/gmail/ .
Can they call someone when there is an issue with gmail? Is there a contract that give them some leverage and guaranties? What is the process in the case of a missing business-critical email being lost and needing recovery?
For business critical operation, leave such answers unanswered can be pretty risky.
Re: Gmail having issues
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't see the buttons (mobile)
That's the point, this page is readable and information-dense. There is no bloating
> this page is readable
Not easily so on mobile - the need to zoom multiple times and scroll in 2 directions to read simple information is a PITA.
Re: Gmail having issues
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hope you have a backup just in case.
Yes, we're unusual in not relying on third parties for list management. We can rollback. Or I might just comment out the 'unsub on hard bounce' code for the rest of the week..! :)
Unsub on two consecutive bounces seems more reasonable to catch flukes (or Gmail going down)?
Re: Gmail having issues
#70Nice hopefully they got hacked