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Google Docs are offline

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Don't seem to be able to load it at all.

Edit: Seems it's able to load the main page (docs.google.com) but no documents (yet).

Edit 2: Seems to be super sporadic whether it loads or not, no word from Google yet.

Edit 3: Docs seem to be able to load very slowly, so service is returning to normal. Unable to print/download docs at this time.

Edit 4: Should mention I'm in NA, Aus seems to be most affected at the moment according to comments.

Edit 5 (1:26PM PST): Will start adding timestamps to edits as things progress. Seems it has gone completely offline in NA again.

Edit 6 (1:29PM PST): Google Docs Twitter has tweeted they are looking into the issue https://twitter.com/googledocs/status/930910008941756416

Edit 7 (1:33PM PST): Google has added the incident to their status page https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=5&iid=256bb31e589f5037731d2bdc83b66bb8, report will be updated at 2:30PM according to them.

This is your regular reminder that all your business relies on a service that may have outages.

Feel free to turn your individual crank towards further criticism of data silos, walled gardens, single points of failures and lock-in.

I don't think any criticism or complaining is of any use in such a situation. People and companies that understand the implications already took care to protect themselves against such failures. Those who haven't will learn eventually.

Has Gdocs had better reliability than the average desktop PC, with MS word?

Has Gdoc's made businesses more productive due to co-working on documents together, rather than emailing around word documents?

lock-in? Why do you feel Gdoc's provides lock-in?

How is it a walled garden?

But their marketing page [1] is telling us that everything is ok...

[1] https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status

Tried to get to a google doc, but it sat there loading, so I got bored and opened hacker news in a new tab. Bam. Question answered.

Yup came here to find this. Can open Drive, but not individual documents. Which is a real pain as there is something in one I need right now. And I have offline installed but no dice...

(Australia)

Edit: I was using it fine at around 7:20AM (AEST) but it was down when I got to work at 8AM.

I can confirm. It is prompting me to turn on offline sync.

not down but, very very very slow to load in San Jose, CA.

Really slow in NZ. Intermittently offline. Back up now.

Down for me in Aus

Edit: sporadic actually

Up for me - UK.

sloooooooooooow in Aus

Well that could just be our lovely NBN, high performance NBN

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