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Comment by hiei | Hacker News Reader

Gmail and other Google products went down last night. Close though. Thankfully not on Twitter or FB.

I don't believe Gmail was ever fully down. For me, I was just having problems with attachments. I also noticed app icons in the play store failing to load.

I experienced issues with Drive last night but it was never fully down. I was trying to work on a 500GB file and the API would drop the link intermittently. I could parse the directory no problem, just couldn't reliably access the files.

Dir layout is likely stored in a different system then large files.

Didn't they just announce shutting down Flickr or something. Plus they could be decommissioning Google+ stuff. Maybe this is related. Just a guess.

Flickr is unrelated to Google and Facebook. Flicker is owned by SmugMug, previously by Yahoo, previously by Ludicorp.

You may be thinking of Picasa, which had it's EOL announced in 2016, and the web API due to be discontinued 15 March 2019 (tomorrow)

Google+ APIs were shutdown 9 March 2019

^ this.

It was not fully down, there were issues with their blobstore.

My company's tech support sent us an email to tell us our email was down. Fun times we live in.

Back in my tech support days I received an email from a customer "I am unable to send or receive emails" I replied "I am very sorry for your inconvenience, I have resolved the issue".

Customers in 1999 really couldn't believe no one had replied to their emails within a day or two.

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