Gmail was down • Hacker News Board

Re: Gmail was down

#171

Post by rattray » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:22 PM UTC

Very happy at times like these that I use the gmail offline webapp. I wrote a blog post about it a while ago, which I took down (deleted the blog) but still have the gdoc if anyone's interested:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E0ApnDQyV0zRX6jhisBxHHuZ...

Re: Gmail was down

#172

Post by thrush » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:22 PM UTC

thrush wrote: post #89

down for me. NY, NY

it's back!

Re: Gmail was down

#173

Post by PhasmaFelis » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:22 PM UTC

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.

I still have my Gmail account hooked into Thunderbird. I don't actually use it to check my mail, but it keeps pulling it all down, so if Google's servers all catch fire, I lose nothing.

Re: Gmail was down

#174

Post by baq » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:22 PM UTC

guys guys it's up again

Re: Gmail was down

#175

Post by sinak » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:22 PM UTC

sinak wrote: post #50

Anyone have the ability to write a quick Twilio app to notify people via SMS when it goes back up? Would save us all a massive amount of time continually refreshing the page. I realize a browser extension could do this too, but SMS would be much better.

Looks like Twilio rate-limits you to one SMS per second per phone number, so you'd need to buy a lot of phone lines to make this possible.

Re: Gmail was down

#176

Post by tangoalpha » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:22 PM UTC

The app status @ http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status&ts=139059123... just started showing Service Disruption for Gmail

Re: Gmail was down

#177

Post by ozi » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:22 PM UTC

Annnnd it's back up!

Re: Gmail was down

#178

Post by esMazer » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:22 PM UTC

it's been fine for me

Re: Gmail was down

#179

Post by arcdigital » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:22 PM UTC

I wasn't able to access gmail (same error 500/93), so I just closed all my tabs and went on HN for 15 mins. I then tried getting on again, and it seems to be working for me.

Re: Gmail was down

#180

Post by ratsimihah » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:22 PM UTC

Someone updates this title. Gmail is up again.