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502 for me. Back now.

Interesting question though. What would happen if gmail just straight up lost all data?

The deluge of people trying to change their email accounts and logins across so many businesses.

A modern horror.

And they recovered everything. I assume that they lose data all the time, but restore everything fast enough, so we users simply don't notice.

I saw it too - props to the engineer that set page title to "Error 502 (Server Error)!!1"

DownDetector picked up a surge of ~7k a few minutes ago

Yes experiencing the outage right now as well, 80-90% of 500 errors

I was seeing it too. Seems to be back now.

Works fine for me at the moment.

It's interesting. Gmail surely contains tons of unused data due to 10GB limit of storage. Normally user would just create new account.