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Re: Google Calendar Is Down

#21

Post by flanbiscuit » Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 2:21 PM UTC

This is the 2nd time a Google product has been down in the last month. What is going on there?

Previous one was only 15 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20077421

Re: Google Calendar Is Down

#22

Post by Vector919 » Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 2:21 PM UTC

What's going on with google lately? First the google cloud outage earlier this month and now this? I wonder if there's some sort of systemic problem they're dealing with

Re: Google Calendar Is Down

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Post by faeyanpiraat » Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 2:21 PM UTC

Also I would like to point out an interesting side effect that the #1 result in google for "Google calendar 404" is down with a "Too many requests" error :D

Re: Google Calendar Is Down

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Post by sp332 » Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 2:21 PM UTC

smpetrey wrote: post #12

404's 503's aside, should we speculate as to what the issue is?

Yes, wildly.

Re: Google Calendar Is Down

#25

Post by djsumdog » Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 2:21 PM UTC

I moved off to Radicale years ago:

https://radicale.org/

I use it with Thunderbird, and DavDroid (now DavX) to handle all my events and contacts (SMS contacts even show up correctly in Hangouts on Android phones)

I realize GCal is rarely ever down, but they do harvest all your data to sell you shit.

Here's a basic Dockerfile for Radicale if you want to try it out:

https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/tree/master/dockerfiles/Radic...

Re: Google Calendar Is Down

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Post by draxofavalon » Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 2:22 PM UTC

404 in Argentina too

Re: Google Calendar Is Down

#27

Post by bubblewrap » Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 2:23 PM UTC

Feminism?

Re: Google Calendar Is Down

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Post by floatingatoll » Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 2:23 PM UTC

joshstrange wrote: post #14

simonhamp wrote: post #11

OP: Might be worth removing the link URL from this post so that we don't hammer their servers while they're trying to fix it for us.

Is this a joke? I seriously doubt the HN traffic is even 0.1% of people banging refresh right now.

You’re probably right about the traffic, but there’s no need to be unkind/sarcastic about it. I wish more people thought not to link down services.

Re: Google Calendar Is Down

#29

Post by thecodelebowski » Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 2:24 PM UTC

404 in Canada too.

Re: Google Calendar Is Down

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Post by amelius » Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 2:24 PM UTC

Vector919 wrote: post #22

What's going on with google lately? First the google cloud outage earlier this month and now this? I wonder if there's some sort of systemic problem they're dealing with

I hope that their problems will be limited to just outages, and they will not start spilling user information.