Gmail was down • Hacker News Board

Re: Gmail was down

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Post by smoyer » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:18 PM UTC

brent_noorda wrote: post #93

smoyer wrote: post #74

I was in the midst of trying to upload files to Google Drive ... I guess I'll use DropBox for this one (I love having choices!).

You're to blame. Please don't be uploading files while the rest of us are emailing.

Yeah ... it's always my fault!

The percent-complete gauge on my upload went up to 20%, then back to 0% ... maybe I'm just backwards?

Re: Gmail was down

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Post by dsilver » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:18 PM UTC

Of all things, this happens as Google's Site Reliability Engineering team starts an AMA on Reddit[1].

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1w1y5m/we_are_the_goog...

Re: Gmail was down

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Post by ChristianMarks » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:18 PM UTC

Same here. The GMail status page seems at variance with the actual status.

Manhattan, New York. Verizon DSL.

Re: Gmail was down

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Post by BuddhaSource » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:18 PM UTC

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.

I was surprised, Hangout chat self declares "Gmail is down".

Usually you would expect "not reachable" or something similar. It is like server is returning error msg to client that service is down.

Re: Gmail was down

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Post by jey » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:18 PM UTC

radious wrote: post #11

VonGuard wrote: post #2

Confirmed by my own email not working.... Probably limited to a small subset of users though.

Count me in. However, the Apps Status Dashboard shows that Gmail should be working, so probably you're right with the small subset affected.

The dashboard is probably manually updated.

Re: Gmail was down

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Post by trillium » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:18 PM UTC

I remember the last time something like this happened - 4 years ago it was down for almost a day.

Impressive that it's almost always up without serious flaws (for me at least)!

Re: Gmail was down

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Post by Navarr » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:18 PM UTC

codex_irl wrote: post #30

Say where you are located. It is down for me, SF Bay Area (east bay).

Down: Bowling Green, OH

Re: Gmail was down

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Post by d23 » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:18 PM UTC

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.

I took off my headphones and asked the office: "anyone else having gmail issues?"

Everyone burst into laughter. They had been talking about it for minutes.

Re: Gmail was down

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Post by jedbrown » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:18 PM UTC

sheetjs wrote: post #67

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?

The cynic will say "karma whoring" but I think it's actually because it increases the likelihood that something will happen. For example, when there were coinbase issues, people wouldn't get responses for weeks. However, once a post about the delays hit the front page, the founders finally responded. So no, I'm not surprised this happened and I wouldn't be surprised to see a swift response

Do you seriously think upvotes on HN have any impact on Google's motivation to get Gmail back up?

Re: Gmail was down

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Post by nthj » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:18 PM UTC

codex_irl wrote: post #30

Say where you are located. It is down for me, SF Bay Area (east bay).

Down in Austin, TX.

Edit: Personal @gmail, and also Apps for Business.