Gmail.com was down • Hacker News Board

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by robglas » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:18 PM UTC

nsoldiac wrote: post #36

Awesome, on my birthday...guess people were sending me too many bday emails!

Aw, you too? Happy birthday! :-)

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by raheemm » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:18 PM UTC

jamesmoss wrote: post #13

Is this affecting Chrome as well? Looks like it might be a bigger problem. It just crashed for three guys in our office within a few seconds of each other. Edit: Nobody was using Gmail at any point.

My chrome is working fine. So is gmail. I'm in Bangladesh so maybe Asia is okay.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by Nursie » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:19 PM UTC

Seems fine to me...

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by BarkMore » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:19 PM UTC

Chrome crashed for me as well.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by engineerhead » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:19 PM UTC

The chrome crashing can be stopped if you disable Synching. Means disconnect your Google Account from Chrome

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by vxxzy » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:19 PM UTC

a thread from earlier.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4898496

Speculation that it is happening to many users.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by beala » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:19 PM UTC

joshstrange wrote: post #39

jamesmoss wrote: post #13

Is this affecting Chrome as well? Looks like it might be a bigger problem. It just crashed for three guys in our office within a few seconds of each other. Edit: Nobody was using Gmail at any point.

I think it is, I didn't even click on the link to gmail and my chrome crashed just a seconds ago. Looks like a sync issue maybe?

I was able to reproduce the crash once by adding a bookmark, which probably forces a sync. Gmail came back up for me, though, so I'm not able to test this again.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by redeemedfadi » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:20 PM UTC

sebastianavina wrote: post #43

AshleysBrain wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can confirm Chrome crashed around the time of Gmail going down too.

It crashed for me too.

Same here. This is bad.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by jonknee » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:20 PM UTC

meaty wrote: post #28

Probably not the time to rub people's face in it, but I host my own mail server because of crap like this. Thread from the other day: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4886236

So your web mail interface is always down... I'm still sending and receiving Google Apps mail through IMAP, so we're currently at parity (except I've never had to manage my email server or deal with spam).

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Post by chmars » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:20 PM UTC

meaty wrote: post #28

Probably not the time to rub people's face in it, but I host my own mail server because of crap like this. Thread from the other day: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4886236

I switched from hosting my own server and using local mail providers to Gmail since they had never been able to provide sufficient reliability (uptime, spam filtering, mail delivery). I use, however, Gmail with my own domain name since I want to be able to change to another provider if necessary.