"shut down to new users" just means "taking their sweet time porting to a google backend" When things are Google products, there is a certain level of reliabil

"shut down to new users" just means "taking their sweet time porting to a google backend" When things are Google products, there is a certain level of reliability, security, and performance that is expect. Google tries harder than anyone to avoid the Fail Whale. It takes a long time for large software systems to be ported, security reviewed, integrated, and tested with Google's custom stuff. From what I have seen, being acquired by Google means that you go dark for 18 months and then emerge as a Google product.