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Because it's not for mobile. Engineers who look at this tend to work from a computer.
Says who? Information about emergency issues are often spread on mobile phones.
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Gmail having issues
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Re: Gmail having issues
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a note regarding time zones at the bottom of the page: "All times are shown in your local timezone unless otherwise noted."
Which timezone is my local timezone? A bunch of geolocation systems think I'm in Paris. I'm in Melbourne. (My ISP bought an IP block that used to be registered to a French company). That's a considerable difference.
It's not geolocation - just a javascript function to ask the browser what the UTC offset of your local time is. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1091372/getting-the-clie...
Re: Gmail having issues
#123"Type: Permanent; SubType: General; Code: smtp; 550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. Please try 550-5.1.1 double-checking the recipient's email address for typos or 550-5.1.1 unnecessary spaces. Learn more at 550 5.1.1 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=NoSuchUser y128si147264pfg.177 - gsmtp"
Yes, hard bounces even between Gmail addresses.
just curious, how did you check bounces stats for Gmail?
Re: Gmail having issues
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
> s/his/her/ s/his/their
I believe you mean: s/s\/his\/her/s\/his\/their/
s#s/his/her#s/his/their# also works and avoids awkward escaping. The first symbol after s is used as the separator. Works in vim, at least.
In other words:
s%s/s\\/his\\/her/s\\/his\\/their/%s#s/his/her#s/his/their#%
Re: Gmail having issues
#125Resolved as of 3:51 PST.
Re: Gmail having issues
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Yes, Gsuite has a SLA and telephone support etc.
They have telephone support, but the agents aren't empowered to do very much of anything.
Re: Gmail having issues
#127Anyone else having issues in general with "the internet" over the last few days?
The images on different websites I've visited don't load (e.g. twitter, bbc etc). When they do they load, they load verrry slowly
Re: Gmail having issues
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, designers did not get lazy. Devices got weirder. It used to be that you could check the width and height of the viewport and say something like “320px wide? Must be a touch interface, deploy the big buttons”. Then tablets got big and it was like “1024px? Could be a laptop, but it’s probably an iPad, which has a touch interface, deploy the big buttons”. Then laptops got touch screens, then the Surface Studio came…
Simple solution would be to ask the user what they want. I genuinely don't understand why this is not common instead of trying to guess it.
Some websites probably do have settings around this, but that gets to a point someone else mentioned: you would have to basically design, build, test and maintain two UIs. Except now with the kicker that one of those layouts is only used by the 5% of your userbase that both knows that the option is available and chooses to take you up on it.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
'Their' works fine and has been gender-neutral English for ages.
His and her no longer correlates to biological sex, so what does it matter anymore. Pronouns can mean whatever you want them to mean.
> "so what does it matter anymore"
The same reason it ever mattered how you refer to people, politeness and respect. If someone you consider "him" asks you to refer to them as "her" it's like someone asking you to call them by their full name "Rebecca" instead of "Becky" or "Jonathan" instead of "Jon". If you like and respect them, you do as they request because things which matter to them matter to you, and being polite to them is important to you. If you ignore what they ask, call them what you want, you communicate that you don't respect them and don't want to be polite, that you want to dominate and 'win' instead.
> "Pronouns can mean whatever you want them to mean"
Only one way. A specific person asking you to use a specific pronoun for themselves is wildly different from you unilaterally and universally saying that all women should feel included by the word "him" because "him" has no meaning anymore.
Re: Gmail having issues
#130"Type: Permanent; SubType: General; Code: smtp; 550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. Please try 550-5.1.1 double-checking the recipient's email address for typos or 550-5.1.1 unnecessary spaces. Learn more at 550 5.1.1 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=NoSuchUser y128si147264pfg.177 - gsmtp"
They should be returning 421 for backend outages so that sending servers queue and retry the emails. 550 can be interpreted by some as deleted [1] or even banned accounts in some cases. Maybe someone here could convince them to change the logic that occurs during an outage. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SMTP_server_return_cod...
Yah. Maybe there's an unexpected way that things can fail resulting in 550's. But maybe at Google's scale you should have some kind of kill switch to stop answering SMTP or to not send permanent errors at all, so that you could flip a switch and prevent the worst consequences of this rather than let it go on for a couple of hours.