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Re: Google Calendar Is Down

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Post by ma2rten »

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 work at google. I am pretty sure google calendar data is not used for ads targeting. The same is true for gmail.

Re: Google Calendar Is Down

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Post by [deleted] »

bluetidepro wrote: post #47
kyrra wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it's there now. https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=2&iid=cc... > We're investigating reports of an issue with Google Calendar. We will provide more information shortly. The affected users are unable to access Google Calendar.

Hmm, I don't see anything there yet for me.

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Re: Google Calendar Is Down

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Post by agumonkey »

flanbiscuit wrote: post #21

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

And with the chrome/adblock mess it feels a lot worse.

My opinion is worth nothing but Google feels like a crumbling cookie now.. it used to be a cool addition to one's life.

Re: Google Calendar Is Down

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Post by manigandham »

This is especially chaotic for business GSuite users. Wonder if there's an offline/local cache service available for cloud-hosted systems, that would be a good middle-ground between local control and cloud-backed scale.

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Post by _zamorano_ »

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'm using a cheap Hostgator webhosting as a pretty good alternative to GMail, Calendar and Contacts.

I synchronize my information between Thunderbird (Windows), Android (DavX and GMail app) and of course, they provide a nice web interface (Horde)

Re: Google Calendar Is Down

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Post by rinchik »

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.

Well, that's quite an insulting comment for the calendar team at G.

I'm sure they are fine, this product is not a personal page with guestbook for your 20 friends and gifs on shared hosting plan.

Re: Google Calendar Is Down

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Post by michaelmior »

bluetidepro wrote: post #35
twostorytower wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

It's certainly helpful to know that Google is aware of the problem and fixing it.

Re: Google Calendar Is Down

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Post by jedberg »

brobdingnagians wrote: post #42
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

Now I'm curious when the last time Google search went down? they must lose a lot of money everytime that happens. or is that one of those services where they spend ridiculous amounts of money and talent on making sure it never goes down?

It's that second thing. They spend a lot and have a lot of talent behind keeping search up. Also it's an easier problem because it isn't transactional. They can fall back to generic search results if they can't load your custom data, and you'd probably never notice.

Google calendar sort of requires your personal data to function (just like gmail).

Re: Google Calendar Is Down

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Post by ma2rten »

smpetrey wrote: post #38
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.

He led search and research. It has absolutely nothing to do with the calendar and cloud outages.
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