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Re: Google outage – resolved

#181

Gmail said my account was "temporarily" unavailable... had a moment considering if it wasn't temporary. Good reminder to remove my reliance on gmail especially.

Same for me - and then I tried logging in to gmail in an incognito window and got "Couldn't find your Google account" which really scared me.

Time to stop postponing that large Google Takeout for me!

Re: Google outage – resolved

#182
It's super interesting that all Google services that I've tried are down _except_ for Google Search. What would isolate Search from the rest of Google's products such that it wouldn't be affected by a mass outage like this?

Re: Google outage – resolved

#183

Gmail said my account was "temporarily" unavailable... had a moment considering if it wasn't temporary. Good reminder to remove my reliance on gmail especially.

Thunderbird prompting me to login, and getting "Google does not recognize this email address" as a reply was a nice adrenaline spike, until I checked the status on HN!

Re: Google outage – resolved

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post #24

Just checked https://www.google.com/appsstatus all green, which does not reflect reality for me (e.g. Gmail is down) edit: shows how incredibly difficult introspection is

Someone here in hn said at Amazon AWS they are required direct CTO approvals to reflect negative realities. Maybe that’s the case for anyone these days.

Re: Google outage – resolved

#185
post #24

Just checked https://www.google.com/appsstatus all green, which does not reflect reality for me (e.g. Gmail is down) edit: shows how incredibly difficult introspection is

What's the point of having a status page when it can't reliably tell you the factual status?

Customer confidence. Same as how everyone reports they have 99.99% uptime.

Re: Google outage – resolved

#186
post #75

210 points in 5 minutes. 500 in 10. Seems everyone see's the status page and is like "hey, time to check hn" ;-) EDIT: You can permanently refresh and see the score increase by 2-3 points each second. Wow. EDIT 2: 1800 after one hour, but a few points were probably lost due to HN downtime. Being quick to post is important, guys;-)

I noticed Gmail and of course the google doc I was working on were unavailable. I didn't come check HN until I said to my wife "Google's down" when she complained her email didn't work and she said "check the news to see if Google's really down"

Re: Google outage – resolved

#188
post #24

Just checked https://www.google.com/appsstatus all green, which does not reflect reality for me (e.g. Gmail is down) edit: shows how incredibly difficult introspection is

HN is my goto status page when these things happen, never failed to provide up-to-date reliable information.

Seems like everyone going on HN now. The site is so slow
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