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Re: Google Calendar Is Down

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

Down in the bay area as well

Re: Google Calendar Is Down

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

bluetidepro wrote: post #20

Surprised nothing shows up on https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status for it. What's the point of a status site that doesn't reflect the status?

It's amazing how many of these status pages don't actually work in many situations.

Re: Google Calendar Is Down

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Post by db48x » Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 2:24 PM UTC

djsumdog wrote: post #25

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/dockerfile…

I did the same, but I use Sandstorm Oasis to host it (https://sandstorm.io/); saves a lot of time spent sysadmining things.

Re: Google Calendar Is Down

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Post by db48x » Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 2:25 PM UTC

twostorytower wrote: post #32

bluetidepro wrote: post #20

Surprised nothing shows up on https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status for it. What's the point of a status site that doesn't reflect the status?

It's amazing how many of these status pages don't actually work in many situations.

I guess technically the "server" is responding, so...

Re: Google Calendar Is Down

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Post by bluetidepro » Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 2:25 PM UTC

twostorytower wrote: post #32

bluetidepro wrote: post #20

Surprised nothing shows up on https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status for it. What's the point of a status site that doesn't reflect the status?

It's amazing how many of these status pages don't actually work in many situations.

Edited my comment to just say the same thing. Haha What's the point of them then?

Re: Google Calendar Is Down

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Post by RutZap » Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 2:26 PM UTC

bluetidepro wrote: post #20

Surprised nothing shows up on https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status for it. What's the point of a status site that doesn't reflect the status?

On that page's footer:

Looks like it was last updated before the outage.

Re: Google Calendar Is Down

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Post by shantanujoshi » Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 2:26 PM UTC

YEAH BABY 404's DAY OFF

Re: Google Calendar Is Down

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Post by smpetrey » Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 2:26 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

Ever since John Giannandrea left Google, seems like Google's product movements have been a little rough. Not sure if it's coincidence.

Re: Google Calendar Is Down

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Post by hlusa » Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 2:27 PM UTC

It first exhibited a lot of blank calendar pages for the end of 2019 onward, though June and July 2019 were still there. Then complete 404.

Re: Google Calendar Is Down

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Post by falcolas » Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 2:28 PM UTC

bluetidepro wrote: post #20

Surprised nothing shows up on https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status for it. What's the point of a status site that doesn't reflect the status?

Status pages are not driven by automation, they are driven by PMs. Amazon, Google... all of the big players work them this way.

And I'm not surprised, since actually reporting it as down has a lot of political blowback (not to mention contract blowback) within the company.