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Re: Gmail.com was down

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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.

Wow. One web service goes down and you can't even use your browser. Maybe this is a sign that they're too tightly integrated.

Or it could be, you know, a BUG

Re: Gmail.com was down

#232

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.

Mine are working too and I'm from Eastern Europe. It was probably a slight glitch of Google's servers or databases.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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post #181

Ok, I would like to take this opportunity to ask something about HN. What if, say a month later Gmail.com goes down again. Then, how do I submit another post to HN? I mean wouldn't I be redirected to this one?

To clarify what Cyranix said, it's possible to add a useless query string on the end of a URL in order to have HN fail to match a URL that's already been submitted. So say SocialMobileLocal.com goes down and someone submits a link: status.socialmobilelocal.com When it goes down again a year later, you can submit: status.socialmobilelocal.com?foo=bar

Ah figured that myself. Now I can bring up old discussions again :)

Re: Gmail.com was down

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post #213

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.

Just to add some data: Did not crash for me. I am using sync and I have two gmail tabs open. However gmail has continued to work for me, only the chat has had some issues. Using dev build from canada.

About the same for me too.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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post #136
post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chromium crash on Arch Linux with this message: http://pastebin.com/f9JMsPzT terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::out_of_range' what(): bitset::set [1] 4934 abort (core dumped) chromium singing out of sync for now.. Edit: no crashes since I signed out of sync Edit2: found a more complete stack trace by somebody else: https://gist.github.com/4251938 Bug Report: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/…

chrome aborts left and right on win7 64, too.

Yeah, I get crashes all the time on Win 7 x64, but that might have something to do with having 100+ tabs open.

Re: Gmail.com was down

#238

Anonymous is claiming credit. http://www.chronicle.su/news/gmail-taken-down-by-anonymous/

Nope, they actually denied it => "Anonymous immediately denied responsibility for the attack on Gmail before finding out that no one knew who perpetrated the attack, thus making it a legitimately"

Re: Gmail.com was down

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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

That's not exactly a rational reason. You're really going to struggle to beat Google's uptime.

The reason I host my own mail because I want to own and control my data.

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