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Re: Google Calendar Is Down

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Post by lukeschlather »

chipperyman573 wrote: post #67
Iggy173 wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Most outages aren't so obvious as this one, and any ping will fail intermittently (often because the ping agent has a failure.) Google definitely has loads of pings hitting Google Calendar in various ways. Exposing this monitoring to the public is not practical or really useful. (And would aid would-be attackers.)

Re: Google Calendar Is Down

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Post by butler14 »

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?

"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."

Re: Google Calendar Is Down

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Post by dingo_bat »

ma2rten wrote: post #51
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.

Gmail literally gives me ads related to the email I'm viewing. At least before I started using ad-blocking.

Re: Google Calendar Is Down

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Post by zild3d »

_zamorano_ wrote: post #55
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)

> they provide a nice web interface (Horde)

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder :)

https://www.horde.org/apps/webmail/screenshots

Re: Google Calendar Is Down

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Post by ma2rten »

chipperyman573 wrote: post #65
ma2rten wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

It's part of the google eco system. It's integrated with android, google assistant, gmail, ... Chromebooks need web-only replacements for Outlook and Office.

It's also a freemium product, because you can pay for gSuite.

Re: Google Calendar Is Down

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Post by CalamityAdam »

KenanSulayman wrote: post #79

Just got 4 calls from different departments and two people coming here saying the internet is broken ("Google calendar is broken company wide!"). (Please introduce more meaningful error messages, Google)

I'm assuming they never thought they'd need such an error page
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