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Or in other words, yet another example of: "How to get meaningful support from Google" - be an internet personality in a community with enough clout to make n
by ErrantX 16y ago
Or in other words, yet another example of:
"How to get meaningful support from Google"
- be an internet personality in a community with enough clout to make noise
- write blog post
- wait
- profit?? :)
Seriously, though, glad it was all worked out (and, more to the point, we now have a teeny tiny indication as to where this issue stems from - for other users with problems)
- pavs 16y agoGmail team already said that they are aware of the problem and they are working on it, way before his blog post. Some problems are not easy fix and no amount of blog posts by internet celebrities will speed up a solution significantly.
- nfnaaron 16y agoThis problem was very easy to fix: move his account to another server. It took an amount of one blog post to trigger the solution. He got special attention. Remember that facebook non-deleted picture discussed yesterday? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1400128 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1400128 It's 404 now. I suspect (purely guessing) they specifically took that one picture down, but did not also "solve" the problem that left it there in the first place. I quit a social network a few years ago, but they would not delete my account. So I logged in and changed my name to something like NameOfSocialNetworkRefusesToDeleteMyAccount. And vi-ola, the account disappeared in a day or so. The embarrassing wheel gets the grease.
- pavs 16y agoIts a temp solution to his problem so that they can shut him up and work on the actual problem. They still have to find a solution to the problem.
- nfnaaron 16y agoMy point exactly.
- drusenko 16y agodon't mean to be a (french) grammar nazi, but it's spelled "voilà" "voila" (without the accent) would be perfectly acceptable as well. sorry! :)
- philwelch 16y agoYeah, "viola" is a small musical instrument.
- nfnaaron 16y ago"don't mean to be a (french) grammar nazi" Would that be a grammar Vichy? "it's spelled "voilà" Right. The dash was in there to emphasize mispronunciation of a mis-spelled word, to indicate mock astonishment in context. Thanks. :)
- _Lemon_ 16y agoThis guy is more than just an Internet celebrity though, this guy runs a search engine as a competitor to them -- why are they watching his blog? (Or did they come across it by accident?) Speculative comment ahoy!
- ugh 16y agoIt might also just be that some people who work at Google who know some people working on Gmail read HN or his blog. They seem like the right demographic :)
- hubb 16y agoit would seem to me that as a competitor to them, it's obvious that google would pay (at least a little) attention to gabriel's blog. of course, i'm sure getting mentioned in a NYT blog didn't hurt, either.
- gaborcselle 16y agoPeople at Google read Hacker News. It's that simple.