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I am an engineer for Google Docs. When they say that Docs List is down, they just mean Docs List. It is stated so on the dashboard site. "Affected users will see a 404 when accessing the Google Docs home page. You can access individual documents by clicking on the link in the original sharing email, or if you have saved the URL for that document." All your docs are still accessible.
Your docs are accessible, but you can't get the list, huh? Have you ever heard the joke where the pilot is lost in the fog and yells out "where am I?" to someone on the ground, and they yell back "you're in an airplane"? The pilot goes "ah!" and manages to land successfully despite the fog. Later, at the bar, friends ask how he managed to land it given that response. He just said he got an answer which was totally te…
- Bookmarks
- Recently Visited
- E-mail (which are automatically generated on sharing)
- It could already be open in a browser tab, either on your computer, or someone else's (and a friendly copy+paste of a URL can fix that)
There is clearly a big difference between "totally useless" and this state of affairs. And it's of great value for users to know this. But thanks for your FUD.