Gmail was down • Hacker News Board

Re: Gmail was down

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Post by psbp » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:27 PM UTC

ryanmcbride wrote: post #229

psbp wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's back up for me.

Looks like it came back up in the last few minutes.

Let's do a quick head count to make sure everyone made it through alive.

Re: Gmail was down

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Post by adventureartist » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:27 PM UTC

aaaaand we're back

Re: Gmail was down

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Post by msutherland » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:27 PM UTC

codex_irl wrote: post #30

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

Down in San Diego, CA

Re: Gmail was down

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Post by xutopia » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:27 PM UTC

Sakes wrote: post #27

Their app status page says it is up, but for me it is down as well. http://www.google.com/appsstatus

It is back up for me as well but saying it's now offline on the status page.

Re: Gmail was down

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Post by igvadaimon » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:28 PM UTC

The most tragic part is that I was doing a difficult 2hour test for a company I really want to work at (frontend developer position). And right now I can't send an email with the completed task.

Re: Gmail was down

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Post by mikegreen » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:28 PM UTC

Back up, but is anyone else's unread email count fluctuating? I have about 160 (constant #... sad.. I know), but with every third or fifth page refresh it is changing - 191, 160, 380.

Re: Gmail was down

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Post by egeozcan » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:28 PM UTC

rickyc091 wrote: post #157

d23 wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

One could argue that you were just being productive and doing your work.

For the arguments sake, it could also be the other way around if their work mainly involved answering emails.

Note: When I was writing this comment and probably unintentionally DDOSing the Gmail servers together with who knows how many people by pressing F5, it came back to life.

Re: Gmail was down

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Post by ryanmcbride » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:28 PM UTC

pkfrank wrote: post #170

This actually raises a slightly terrifying reality. How much would someone have to pay you to never again recover your gMail account? I would demand just an absurd payout to willingly walk away right now, with all those contacts, messages, unread e-mails, organization, etc... Scary how much faith we put in this free service.

You should always use a backup service, and don't keep files "in the cloud" when you can help it. The goal is to have any single part of your digital life able to vanish, without losing anything important.

Re: Gmail was down

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Post by lhgaghl » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:28 PM UTC

lhgaghl wrote: post #211

Confirmed.

What? I didn't write this. And gmail is up for me. HN is making users post false claims.

Re: Gmail was down

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Post by anilshanbhag » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 7:28 PM UTC

Fastest rise of points seen in the past one year ! On another note, for one moment I got scared as shit - if my data gets erased, I'm done !