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Re: Gmail is down

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Post by johnyzee »

Deestan wrote: post #28
johnyzee wrote: post #23

"The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request. Please try again in 30 seconds. " Not the best error message for a failing service IMHO.

Just curious here; I'm a developer who has to write messages like this from time to time. What specifically is bad about it? Do you have any suggestions to what it should be instead?

I was referring to the "try again in 30 seconds". When your service is failing, maybe it's not the best time to invite users to pummel it with requests. I think a generic "try again later" would work better.

Re: Gmail is down

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Post by doronrotem »

jacquesm wrote: post #21
Jem wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I upvoted this one because gmail seemed more appropriate a link than twitter.

Good point. Still, then the author of this one could have suggested an edit rather than to resubmit.

Well, when I entered HN I looked at the top stories and didn't see yours. Then I logged in and submitted mine.

It is possible I missed your item, or that it wasn't on the first page, or that by the time I logged and submitted mine yours was submitted.

Sorry if you feel I swiped you karma.

Re: Gmail is down

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Post by jacquesm »

doronrotem wrote: post #32
jacquesm wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good point. Still, then the author of this one could have suggested an edit rather than to resubmit.

Well, when I entered HN I looked at the top stories and didn't see yours. Then I logged in and submitted mine. It is possible I missed your item, or that it wasn't on the first page, or that by the time I logged and submitted mine yours was submitted. Sorry if you feel I swiped you karma.

mine ? I did not submit this, somebody else did.

The front page does not show recent submissions, but 'new' does. The front page uses an algorithm based on the 'acceleration' of postings, their age and total points to figure out what to display.

Re: Gmail is down

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Post by felixmar »

BvS wrote: post #26
BvS wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"336 more results since you started searching." It's amazing to see how fast it's spreading through Twitter...

Now it's "1543 more results since you started searching."

As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

It would be funny if all those tweets about Gmail crash Twitter.

Re: Gmail is down

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Post by whalesalad »

A friend of mine is reporting the same problem down here in Honolulu (on Clearwire wireless) but I'm on RoadRunner (also in Honolulu) and all of Google's services work just fine for me.

So yeah... is this really necessary? Everyone and their brother uses Google/Gmail, the only thing you're doing here is letting everyone know you're were the first on the scene. But, you probably weren't, and the first guy on the scene didn't care.

Re: Gmail is down

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Post by khafra »

amitry wrote: post #19

We're aware of a problem with Gmail affecting a small subset of users. The affected users are unable to access Gmail. We will provide an update by February 24, 2009 6:30 AM PST detailing when we expect to resolve the problem. Please note that this resolution time is an estimate and may change. From: http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-Announcements-and-...

That's a pretty large small subset. Everyone I talked to this morning, in western europe, eastern europe, and australia (and I in the US), was unable to access gmail.

Re: Gmail is down

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Post by axod »

BvS wrote: post #15
c1sc0 wrote: post #2

Twitter seems to confirm that sentiment: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Gmail+is+down

"336 more results since you started searching." It's amazing to see how fast it's spreading through Twitter...

Also quite funny to see a thread on this comments page complaining about a single duplicate HN submission, when twitter has thousands of "Gmail is down" duplicate tweets.

The compression ratio on twitters db must just be astounding.

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