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Google Calendar is down
- dank79430 10y agoI dont know what to do with my hands right now
- rdsubhas 10y agoAll my meetings are on the calendar. I dont know what to do with my life right now
- SuperKlaus 10y agoNo meetings today - wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot!
- riscy 10y ago> Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. This page checks to see if it's really you sending the requests, and not a robot. I wonder if they're getting attacked.
- mcrider 10y agoI get this error page pretty frequently from my office -- but its possible they turned down the threshold in case of an attack.
- 010a 10y agoI got this one for the first time today as well, minutes before the site went down.
- zeven7 10y agoSame.
- tachyonic_phone 10y agoI'm getting this all the time, from 3 different accounts. My IP is from Brazil; I wonder if there's any geo relation...
- normanjoyner 10y agoGoogle reporting "service disruption" for calendar: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status
- kyrra 10y agodirect link to incident: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=2&iid=847490285bf1b9e082a699bafb95f53b http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=2&iid=847...
- lazyronin 10y ago"We're investigating reports of an issue with Google Calendar. We will provide more information shortly. Users of Google Calendar see 'Server Error' page intermittently." from: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=2&iid=847490285bf1b9e082a699bafb95f53b https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=2&iid=84...
- lazyant 10y agoCalendar and Hangouts https://twitter.com/GoogleforWork/status/748516307235143681 https://twitter.com/GoogleforWork/status/748516307235143681
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- magicalist 10y agoThat tweet does not say hangouts?
- rasmusei 10y agoI find this quite interesting. Have been using Google calendar for about 10 years now, and never experienced downtime before.
- heavymark 10y agoBeen using just as long, and while Google calendar and other Google services have been down before, it's true, it's a very rare occurrence to affect this many users.
- em3rgent0rdr 10y agoGeneral amnesty for missed meetings today.
- coldpie 10y agoI got lucky I happened to glance at the clock 3 minutes before my call :)
- Someone1234 10y agoFortunately Google Calendar syncs with the app, so as long as the app already retrieved your appointments you should be just fine. Same reason why it works even without an internet connection.
- cptskippy 10y agoIf you had your Calendar open in a web page it will continue to be readable. I have a pinned tab that I can still see everything 3 months in either direction.
- twistedpair 10y agoIt must be due to the Spanish Inquisition today. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12007940 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12007940
- swampthinker 10y agoAfter all, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
- linker3000 10y agoI did - it was in my Outlook calendar
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- jarcoal 10y agoOffline since 6:10am PDT according to our logs.
- dubmax123 10y agoGoogle Calendar became self-aware today at 6:10am. The singularity is upon us.
- valevk 10y agoI had a notification in my Google Calendar to cancel my Google Music trial. Luckily, Google Calendar went down, after i saw it :)
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- mring33621 10y agoMy smart dishwasher is throwing an IOException!
- whamlastxmas 10y agoCHANGELOG * V2.0.5 - Dishwasher is now only compatible with Cleanly.io brand detergent * V4.1.2 - Dishwasher now only accepts Cleanly.io branded and DRM'd plates and silverware. * V5.6.2 - Cleanly.io plates and silverware are now single-use only * V6.0.4 - Dishwasher now only works with Cleanly.io Pure Life water. Please contact your local water supplier for pricing and contracting.
- chrisper 10y agoDon't forget that Cleanly.io is shutting down, so now your dishwasher won't run at all anymore.
- whamlastxmas 10y agoAlso don't forget the fresh water pipes in your home are owned by Cleanly.io and leased to you, meaning you can no longer receive water until some other company acquires the remnants of Cleanly.io during their decade long bankruptcy proceedings. The sad thing this, that is not even really satire - ISPs own the fiber in office and multi-resident buildings all the time, and their use is only available to others by lease contracts.
- wfunction 10y agoSilicon Valley, where people compare the necessity of Internet to that of water.
- Terribledactyl 10y agohttps://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/02/08/the-internet-is-a-global-public-resource/ https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/02/08/the-internet-is-a-g...
- fny 10y agoEnglish, Japanese, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Portugese, Chinese (zh-Hant), Chinese (zh), Polish, Swedish, Danish, Korean, Russain, Norwegian, Finnish, Turkish. It's fun to ponder why they picked that order and why other popular languages didn't make the cut.
- Bytes 10y agoNobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf_Y4MbUCLY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf_Y4MbUCLY
- e40 10y agoThankfully my phone caches my calendars. While it's unavailable in a browser, I do see all my events on my phone. Yay!
- zymhan 10y ago> my phone caches my calendars The word you're looking for is "synchronizes". This has existed for decades, now.
- jbernardo95 10y agoLet's pray for a material design update !
- masnick 10y agoOne of the reasons I use FastMail (https://fastmail.com https://fastmail.com) for email and calendar rather than Google is that when outages happen, the explain what is going on (http://www.fastmailstatus.com http://www.fastmailstatus.com). Outages are inevitable, so having (a) information and (b) the ability to contact a human are valuable features IMO.
- whamlastxmas 10y agoThey also just pushed out the invitation detecting thing that Google has had for quite a while that lets you add stuff to your calendar quickly. Sadly I still use Google's calendar despite having Fastmail because it's just a lot better.
- hilbertspac3 10y agoGoogle has explained what is going on: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=2&iid=847490285bf1b9e082a699bafb95f53b https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=2&iid=84...
- zxexz 10y ago'Explained' may be a bit of an overstatement for that page. 'Acknowledged and provided timestamps' is more like it. EDIT: Although it does look like they will update it with more information soon.
- presto8 10y agoInteresting that the status page marks this as a 'service disruption' versus 'service outage'. The page doesn't have any definitions of these terms anyway, so it's hard to know what the difference is. I was completely unable to access the service. It seems like a 'service outage' to me!
- softawre 10y agoThe difference might be that outage is down for all, disruption might be down for 50%.
- tachyonic_phone 10y agoAaaaand, it's back.
- jsterj 10y agoBack up for me on multiple accounts.
- l1n 10y agoSeems to be back up now.
- NelsonMinar 10y agoThis is your regular reminder that it is dangerous that Google has a near monopoly providing free services like calendars and email.
- zymhan 10y agoI sync my Google calendar to my devices, so if it goes belly up, I can open a new account somewhere else and start using that with little issue. I do think it's a bad idea to rely 100% on something business critical hosted by someone else, without having your own backup somewhere. Hosted services go down eventually. That doesn't mean we can't use them, just be aware of their limitations.
- tuna-piano 10y agoI wonder: What is the average downtime of Google Mail / calendar vs the average large corporation's exchange server? Another thought- when Google calendar / mail goes down - it's likely business users blame Google - not the IT group. When a self-hosted exchange server goes down, IT is probably blamed. Leaving an incentive to move toward cloud providers just to shift the blame.
- nolok 10y agoThe last time Gmail suffered a total and global outage, it resulted in no email lost and delays of at the most 4 hours. That basically made their outage an argument to switch to them.
- CaptSpify 10y agoThis is, IME, why big shops try to push outsourcing as much as they can. Whether development or structure, passing the buck to someone else is politically better. If you or your provider succeeds, you both can claim victory. If you try to upgrade/restructure and fail, everyone blames you. If your provider tries to upgrade/restructure and fails, you can blame them, and everyone in your company agrees with you. So politically, you can save yourself from "losing".
- j45 10y agoThere are cloud based providers of Exchange that have more or less downtime than Exchange, or any email provider. I had hosted my own email servers for over 15 years because it was the normal thing to do when I started. I don't remember the last time email has gone down for me, but calendar pain hurts me more. On google now, and today's outage makes me realize it might be simpler to just install Zimbra and mirror it across two Amazon locations for another 10 years. I'm not a fan of email providers online because hotmail lost/deleted 15 years of my emails.
- 0xmohit 10y agoGoogle calendar went down after my robot went to sleep. Even though WiFi (and Google Fibre) is working fine, due to the calendar outage the robot can't receive instructions to get up and continue with work. Who is going to compensate? Google?
- 0xmohit 10y agoFrom http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/sla.html http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/sla.html "Monthly Uptime Percentage" means total number of minutes in a calendar month minus the number of minutes of Downtime suffered in a calendar month, divided by the total number of minutes in a calendar month. Looks like they forgot to multiply it by 100 (at least in the definition).
- Colex 10y agoYou can represent percentages as a fraction. No need to multiply by 100. 99/100 = 0.99 = 99%
- 0xmohit 10y agoWho knows if they actually hide tax data in the calendar. No-one [0] would suspect that. Bring down the service to dodge the taxman. [0] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-probe-spain-idUSKCN0ZG1AC http://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-probe-spain-idUSKCN...