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Google Docs are offline
Don't seem to be able to load it at all.
Edit: Seems it's able to load the main page (docs.google.com) but no documents (yet).
Edit 2: Seems to be super sporadic whether it loads or not, no word from Google yet.
Edit 3: Docs seem to be able to load very slowly, so service is returning to normal. Unable to print/download docs at this time.
Edit 4: Should mention I'm in NA, Aus seems to be most affected at the moment according to comments.
Edit 5 (1:26PM PST): Will start adding timestamps to edits as things progress. Seems it has gone completely offline in NA again.
Edit 6 (1:29PM PST): Google Docs Twitter has tweeted they are looking into the issue https://twitter.com/googledocs/status/930910008941756416
Edit 7 (1:33PM PST): Google has added the incident to their status page https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=5&iid=256bb31e589f5037731d2bdc83b66bb8, report will be updated at 2:30PM according to them.
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- tlogan 9y agoBut their marketing page [1] is telling us that everything is ok... [1] https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status
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- suhastech 9y agoI can confirm. It is prompting me to turn on offline sync.
- graystevens 9y agoUp for me - UK.
- t0mbstone 9y agoTried to get to a google doc, but it sat there loading, so I got bored and opened hacker news in a new tab. Bam. Question answered.
- marak830 9y agoDown for me in Aus Edit: sporadic actually
- tiredwired 9y agonot down but, very very very slow to load in San Jose, CA.
- bugmen0t 9y agoThis is your regular reminder that all your business relies on a service that may have outages. Feel free to turn your individual crank towards further criticism of data silos, walled gardens, single points of failures and lock-in.
- dvfjsdhgfv 9y agoI don't think any criticism or complaining is of any use in such a situation. People and companies that understand the implications already took care to protect themselves against such failures. Those who haven't will learn eventually.
- Daviey 9y agoHas Gdocs had better reliability than the average desktop PC, with MS word? Has Gdoc's made businesses more productive due to co-working on documents together, rather than emailing around word documents? lock-in? Why do you feel Gdoc's provides lock-in? How is it a walled garden?
- paulbishop 9y agosloooooooooooow in Aus
- synicalx 9y agoWell that could just be our lovely NBN, high performance NBN
- smegel 9y agoYup came here to find this. Can open Drive, but not individual documents. Which is a real pain as there is something in one I need right now. And I have offline installed but no dice... (Australia) Edit: I was using it fine at around 7:20AM (AEST) but it was down when I got to work at 8AM.
- casley 9y agoReally slow in NZ. Intermittently offline. Back up now.