Official Gmail Blog: Today's Gmail problems

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29 points·peter123··8 comments

Wow, HN is becoming a really shitty filter. This update says nothing more than what's on the Apps Dashboard. How about waiting for some actual news before voting nothing up to #5?

It only took 24 out of the thousands of people that read here to do that. No downvote available and no reason to flag the submission.

I'm impressed by their App Status Dashboard (http://www.google.com/appsstatus), which I hadn't seen before today. It's a very helpful tool for when this kind of outage happens. I wish Twitter would follow suit.

Twitter's own status blog was just undergoing maintenance the minute I sent out a URL to one of the post on it (a few hours ago). Forget it.

I'm currious if the subset of users affected was geographic based or just a set number of users. I'm i Canada and did not have any issues with Gmail and I didn't see any tweets, fb updates from my Canadian crew on the issue. However people in the US appeared to be telling the world about their inability to access Gmail.

It's slightly comforting to be reminded that even the "big boys" sometimes have tech problems too

I believe in the law of conservation of messes...

If you mess up frequently, each mess will be small. However, if you do it once in a blue moon, each will be catastrophic! Of course there is also a size dependent scaling factor... the higher you are, the harder you fall!

;)

Twitter really exemplifies this. They failed a lot and nobody (except programmers) cared since, hey, twitter's always down. Now they don't fail often, have a huge worldwide audience, and every failure is news event.

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