Not Found Error 404 Yep, same issue here (France).
Same in Wisconsin
Google Calendar Is Down
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Re: Google Calendar Is Down
#62I 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.
what? true for Gmail?
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#63Surprised 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.
Also, accurately reporting about an arbitrary source of downtime means you're smart enough to avoid the same sources of downtime.
Not that this can't have been an obvious reason (deleting all the servers in a datacenter or similarly trivial but severe) but it's likely impossible to ensure status page accuracy.
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#64That explains why I couldn't book my client's appointment. API is throwing "503 Backend Error."
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#65I 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.
Then what do they gain from it?
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
yeh... but, we sorta live and die by the evidence. We can't just blindly assume OP is correct. Thankfully, OP knew that and saved us the hassle or typing it ourselves.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Also, accurately reporting about an arbitrary source of downtime means you're smart enough to avoid the same sources of downtime. Not that this can't have been an obvious reason (deleting all the servers in a datacenter or similarly trivial but severe) but it's likely impossible to ensure status page accuracy.
You could just ping the servers once a minute and tell if they're up or not. No need to know why they've gone down.
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#68Looks like it's back up for me
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#69This 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.
Welp it still is.
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#70Yep, both consumer and Gsuite calendars are down.