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Post by blhack »

mintplant wrote: post #22

Top of the front page in less than a minute. What does it say about us that our first response is to rush over to HN?

I really like that. It makes the internet feel more like a community; reminds me of old slashdot days.

Re: Gmail was down

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Post by kschlenker »

simonsarris wrote: post #42

Very funny that me and my coworkers at nearly the same time opened our office doors to look into each others eyes and silently confirm that we were having the same issue. Then we all turned around and went back into our offices to check HN to see if it was just us. Very funny that everyone reading this did something similar. 84 points in 4 minutes.

+1

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Post by rattray »

sillysaurus2 wrote: post #69

Why is there no alternative webmail of the caliber of gmail? Is it a difficult problem? If there were such an alternative, all they would need to do is wait until gmail fouls up, as they did here. Then they'd have a flood of new users. I can imagine a few reasons why there currently isn't an alternative, like network effects stemming from your contact list, or the fact that you'd have to change your email address eve…

I've heard terrific things about fastmail.fm's web client. Many people say it's faster and has most of Gmail's cherished features.

Edit: plus, no Google-snooping of course.

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Post by sp332 »

ia wrote: post #9

Mine is down also. This is actually slightly terrifying. What's standard operating procedure for recovering from a lost gmail account? And I don't mean getting the account back--I mean, your account is lost forever.

Your whole account or just the email part? If you have a real email client, you could rescue your email from it even if your account is toast. If just the webmail part goes down permanently, you can download your mailbox from https://www.google.com/settings/takeout

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Post by toomuchtodo »

eli wrote: post #77
toomuchtodo wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google gets access to the restricted Twitter firehose; you'd think they'd add it as another monitoring source.

I'm pretty sure they are aware that there's a problem

Revised statement: "I wonder if Google processes the twitter feed looking for keywords to assist in monitoring their most-used services"
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