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Gmail.com was down
- magikbum 14y agohttp://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status&ts=1355158213127 http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status&ts=1... Still no update
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- normalfaults 14y agoGmail is down and children are in the street weeping!
- skiba 14y agoLOL
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- iambrakes 14y agoSame problem here. All other Google services seem to be fine.
- dutchbrit 14y agoI wonder if it's linked to that calendar bug?
- zwx 14y agotime to switch to outlook.com
- mavlee 14y agoI suspect the chance of both services being down is under 0.0001%
- kaolinite 14y agoOr alternatively wait 2 minutes for it to come back up. C'mon - you can't complain about Gmail's uptime record.
- JeremyMorgan 14y agoI was just going to say this. Been using Gmail daily since 2004 or so and I can count on one hand how many problems I've had. Stellar record, though as I said I am too dependent on it personally.
- ceejayoz 14y agoI'm sure Outlook.com will never, ever have an outage.
- ck2 14y agoI've been on it for the past hour without a problem. It must be server/account specific.
- dutchbrit 14y agoI think it's a pretty large outage. https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=gmail&src=typd https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=gmail&src=typd
- graeme 14y agoThis literally went down about 45 seconds ago for me. Check again?
- flatline 14y agoI have both a school account and my regular gmail account open continually; they still appear to be working fine.
- tolos 14y agoI too never had a problem.
- petercooper 14y agoDitto, although both of my accounts are on "Apps". Not had Chrome crash either, although I never use Syncing because I just don't trust Google to get it right..
- drzaiusapelord 14y agoIts almost as like google has distributed clusters all over the world and that these problems may only affect part of that cluster. These "OMG GOOGLE IS DOWN" is the geek equivalant of "THE INTERNET IS DOWN" when Jane Officeworker can't get to msn.com.
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- travisp 14y agoGiven the massive scale of Gmail and the infrastructure of Google, it's highly unlikely that the entire audience of Hacker News sitting and pressing F5 every second would hurt Google's ability to bring it back up.
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- mpyne 14y agoI don't know, if there's one thing that seems more ignorant/oblivious than the idea that HN will somehow magically DDoS GMail, it's complaining about downvotes on HN. :P (P.S. Poe's Law)
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- eitally 14y agoBoth my apps and personal account are down. <edit> an both are back at 12:17pm EST</edit>
- jamesmoss 14y agoIs this affecting Chrome as well? Looks like it might be a bigger problem. It just crashed for three guys in our office within a few seconds of each other. Edit: Nobody was using Gmail at any point.
- wkasel 14y agoChrome is crashing over here too.
- davidu 14y agoSame here.
- danielsamuels 14y agoMy Chrome crashed a few minutes ago too, no Gmail open, but I do use an extension which checks it for me. Edit: Looks like Chrome Sync is causing the crashes.
- stevejalim 14y agoChrome just crapped out for me too - I suspect it was polling the mothership or the like, but can't be sure
- lancefisher 14y agoI've had Chrome crash on me twice now with GMail trying to open.
- AshleysBrain 14y agoI can confirm Chrome crashed around the time of Gmail going down too.
- sebastianavina 14y agoIt crashed for me too.
- redeemedfadi 14y ago
- pradeep89 14y agoOps, something is broken - India
- binarydreams 14y agoI am disappointed.
- jmsduran 14y agoGmail is down for me too.
- rdl 14y agoChrome Sync is crashing my Chrome every minute or so.
- w1ntermute 14y agoIt's working intermittently for me.
- potench 14y agoI'm getting a 502 Bad Gateway error.
- meaty 14y agoProbably not the time to rub people's face in it, but I host my own mail server because of crap like this. Thread from the other day: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4886236 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4886236
- JeremyMorgan 14y agoYup. I'm entirely too reliant on Google products myself. My business not so much but personally I am pretty reliant on them.
- rdl 14y agoI run my own mail server, but it's far from justifiable on a pure uptime basis. I don't have HA configured, so my mail (which serves <10 users on a box in colo) goes down for 2-3 minutes ~4-10 times per year when I reboot. Even worse, I don't really announce downtimes, but just randomly reboot it late at night if I've upgraded something important.
- modoc 14y agoSure, but you have 8-30 minutes of annual downtime, all planned by you:) Not too bad;)
- rdl 14y agoThat's best-case. I have backup-mx, but no real failover for imap or normal smtp (other than reading mailspool directly on the backup mx). I used to do a crazy flood-fill thing with 3 servers smtp forwarding mail and marking it, but doing mail HA correctly is kind of hard (and then keeping mailstore synced from imap in sync, too).
- modoc 14y agoYeah. We use glusterfs to handle the IMAP sync between multiple VMs for HA IMAP. SMTP MX clustering is pretty straightforward in comparison:)
- iag 14y agoWow that's amazing. #1 news on HN already? This is pretty cool.
- dutchbrit 14y agoIt's back up here
- mey 14y agoGoogle Now also appears to be having issues (at least for me).
- nsoldiac 14y agoAwesome, on my birthday...guess people were sending me too many bday emails!
- zwx 14y agolol, happy bday!
- robglas 14y agoAw, you too? Happy birthday! :-)
- littlespark 14y agoYou broke Gmail! Happy Birthday!
- nsoldiac 14y agothanks HN-ers!
- ved_a 14y agoChrome crashing due to failed sync problems with google servers and gmail is down.
- barrkel 14y agopop.gmail.com is not, and that's how I get my mail.
- eclipticplane 14y agoI seem to still be able to send & receive mail via my sync on iPhone, and it seems Outlook Sync for Biz Apps is running fine. gmail.com only?
- midas 14y agoI love google products (and I'm not worried about my email for a second), but their explanation is really bad: "The problem with Google Mail should be resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support. Please rest assured that system reliability is a top priority at Google, and we are making continuous improvements to make our systems better." It sounds like something an airline might say after bumping you to another flight! http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=1355212799000&iid=c4cb68ce9a417fa4832a731c7f71a9f0 http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=13... EDIT: Thanks @mpeg for pointing out that this is a different outage. Still yucky copy though.
- mpeg 14y agoWrong date
- Thrymr 14y agoToday's outage: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=1355201999000&iid=4abb2f6c40f6bd39677195b9a60ad77d http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=13... So far it only says "We're investigating reports of an issue with Google Mail. We will provide more information shortly."
- ihdavis 14y agozombie day is upon us.
- erock 14y agoPlay store is down for me too, crashed hard on my phone about 5 minutes ago
- ing33k 14y agoChrome didn't crash, but gmail is down for me
- foxhop 14y agogoogle drive also same issue
- JeremyMorgan 14y agoOddly enough I was on Gmail and Chrome kept crashing. Did all the usual stuff, cleared everything, restarted etc. Turns out, for me at least, the only time it crashes is when I go to Gmail.com. I'd really love to investigate and find out why these two related products behave this way but honestly I'm way too lazy.
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- statictype 14y agoGmail for Business works from my imap client (postbox) but not from the web site. So I guess their web interface is down - not the backend mail engine.
- rshlo 14y agoIMAP works for me also with Thunderbird.
- nsoldiac 14y agoIt's back up now. EDIT: went down again...
- natefriedman 14y agoError 502
- jontro 14y agoIt's back up for me now
- arscan 14y agoI'm having trouble too... the plain HTML version works though: http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html
- lawdawg 14y agoIts fixed for me now.
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- koalaman 14y agoand... they're back.
- sai163 14y agoChrome crashed for the first time for me, when i tried refreshing the gmail.com page multiple times.
- w_t_payne 14y ago... and it's back.
- santimt 14y agoUp and running now
- Shenglong 14y agoAnd it's back up.
- kyllo 14y agoEverything has downtime, folks. Everything.
- JeremyMorgan 14y agoChrome is now trending on Twitter lol
- AlexHadaya 14y agoI've just reloaded chrome twice as well as gmail and it's working fine here in Australia.
- Fletch137 14y agoAbsolutely no problems with any Google services (Drive, Mail, Calendar, Search) for me (Northwest UK).
- AlexHadaya 14y agoI've just reloaded chrome twice as well as gmail and it's working fine here in Australia.
- mostlygeek_ 14y agoWorks now!
- squid_ca 14y agoGmail is working for me in FireFox. In Chrome, it is still crashing.
- AshleysBrain 14y ago...and it's back up here now - must've been down 10 minutes or so!
- AshleysBrain 14y ago...and it's back up here now - must've only been down 10 minutes or so! (But Chrome just crashed again)
- cientifico 14y agoI really hate when the browser crash in the middle of a
- vondur 14y agoI couldn't get into Google Docs either. Must be something going on.
- prawks 14y agoError 502 (Server Error)!!1 Is the 1 intentional?
- Sherrilbfx 14y agoHey guise I'm in Chrome right now, and it's working just (&$(&#(*&# )#
- hierro 14y agoSeems to be up again for me (connecting from Europe).
- supun 14y agoMy Chrome crashed as well while trying to load gmail. But in firefox gmail is working.
- cadr 14y agoOn the plus side, the little broken robot drawing on their error page is cute. It is no Octocat, but hey.
- supun 14y agoMy Chrome crashed as well while trying to load gmail. But in firefox gmail was working. But it seems now nothing is working for gmail.
- isaacjohnwesley 14y agoFew more days for 21 December, Mayan calendar. :P
- gigamike 14y agoChrome is crashing for me without even a gmail tab open. Curious...
- sold 14y agoA tweet by The Onion: [In Focus] Google Shuts Down Gmail To Show Its Immense Power http://onion.com/UxyLs8 http://onion.com/UxyLs8
- creativityland 14y agoGmail returns with G+ as your inbox.
- rodneyfool 14y agoಠ_ಠ
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- eddington 14y agoPlease leave those elsewhere.
- AznHisoka 14y agoI'll reward +1 internet to anyone that reply with more weird smiley-faces! :)
- MichaelApproved 14y agoI'm surprised to see a comment like this from someone who has an account that was created over 1,700 days ago.
- deskglass 14y agoRelevant quote: "It's bad behavior you want to keep out more than bad people. User behavior turns out to be surprisingly malleable. If people are expected to behave well, they tend to; and vice versa." http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
- ig1 14y agoFeedburner has also been sporadically returning temporary errors over the last hour. Looks like it's a google infrastructure problem.
- gprasanth 14y agoOk, I would like to take this opportunity to ask something about HN. What if, say a month later Gmail.com goes down again. Then, how do I submit another post to HN? I mean wouldn't I be redirected to this one?
- Cyranix 14y agoSubmitting the link of a dead site has never really made any sense to me in the first place. If the company has a separate status page, post the most specific URL from that page. If not, perhaps an external checker like http://www.isup.me http://www.isup.me with a (manually entered) query string for the date would be appropriate.
- kibwen 14y agoTo clarify what Cyranix said, it's possible to add a useless query string on the end of a URL in order to have HN fail to match a URL that's already been submitted. So say SocialMobileLocal.com goes down and someone submits a link: status.socialmobilelocal.com When it goes down again a year later, you can submit: status.socialmobilelocal.com?foo=bar
- gprasanth 14y agoAh figured that myself. Now I can bring up old discussions again :)
- vxxzy 14y agoI wonder if this post has anything to do with it: http://www.elezea.com/2012/12/google-calendar-lost-data-security-breach/ http://www.elezea.com/2012/12/google-calendar-lost-data-secu...
- mdahlstrand 14y agoI experienced a similar issue a couple of weeks ago when my synced chrome settings & bookmarks appeared on a co-worker's machine, a machine I've never signed in on. All his stuff was gone and replaced with an outdated version of mine...
- loganfsmyth 14y agoGmail work for me but chat isn't connecting.
- desireco42 14y agoIt happens to the best of us :) is all I can think of
- Murkin 14y agoStrange, we got Youtube crashing chromes on all our Ubuntu machines
- jeepey 14y agoI can easily live with a few minutes of downtime for my mail, but they should fix Chrome and other platforms being dependant.
- mkolodny 14y agoIt's working fine on Safari, albeit a little slowly. This seems to be Chrome specific.
- nicholasjarnold 14y agoGmail and all Google services are working for me using Chrome 24.0.1312.35 beta-m. I did have a 502 error for about 5 minutes, but it didn't crash the browser. edit: typo
- jahansafd 14y agowent down for me. need to get work done. oh god.
- BitMastro 14y agoWorking here on Chrome
- propercoil 14y agocrashes by itself with a 502 error on ubuntu. The chrome doesn't crash though
- alexakarpov 14y agoaaaaand it's back )
- GotAnyMegadeth 14y agoChrome has crashed twice for me in the last 2 mins...
- rcoh 14y agoWorking in FF....
- luk3thomas 14y agoWorking for me on Mac, but not in windows
- kibwen 14y agoSeems to work in Firefox, for anyone who needs to urgently access their Gmail. Still down in Chrome for me (Error 502), though it's not crashing the browser.
- rplnt 14y agoWorks for me with both Opera and Chrome. Even with chat. Either they fixed it or it's an issue only affecting part of userbase. edit: I'm in Europe.
- Nursie 14y agoSeems fine to me...
- BarkMore 14y agoChrome crashed for me as well.
- engineerhead 14y agoThe chrome crashing can be stopped if you disable Synching. Means disconnect your Google Account from Chrome
- vxxzy 14y agoa thread from earlier.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4898496 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4898496 Speculation that it is happening to many users.
- RegEx 14y agoChrome crashed 3-4 times in a row trying to access Gmail. This was on Windows, and I was logged into Google Sync.
- felipebueno 14y agoMy Chrome crashed several times as well
- goodguy44 14y agoEven my chrome is crashing, switched to firefox a while ago.
- pierooh 14y agoDown in France : http://www.blog-nouvelles-technologies.fr/archives/21512/error-502-gmail/ http://www.blog-nouvelles-technologies.fr/archives/21512/err...
- TallGuyShort 14y agoI've been having luck with mutt. Looks like their POP / IMAP servers are running better than their webapp.
- nsoldiac 14y agoChrome just crashed on me for the first time. Gmail has been up and down a few times already the last 30 mins.
- AzAngel 14y agoBeen on Chrome for about 50 minutes, was on Gmail at the beginning of that. The only thing that was crashed was the chat on Gmail. Have not had a single problem with Chrome.
- Amaan 14y agoIt's working for me now.
- FiloSottile 14y agoI have a new yellow notice on top of Gmail. "Novità! Le app Gmail per dispositivi mobili sono appena state aggiornate su Google Play e nell'App Store di Apple. Ignora" Translated: News! The mobile Gmail apps have just been updated on Google Play and App Store. I wonder if this is related...
- namank 14y agoBeen working for me fine on Safari and IMAP
- lisper 14y agoSeems to be back up now. At least it's working for me.
- JeremyMorgan 14y agoMy Android phone sends and receives just fine. It seems like a web related issue, and Chrome is likely just relying on communications with the server
- joshz 14y agoOh that's what happened. This is a pretty unexpected oversight from a company that tests their software so extensively to have browsers crash because an email service/sync service is down.
- jbranchaud 14y agoThe internet is awesome! This kind of collaborative trouble-shooting is epic!
- crb 14y agoThere is now an post for this outage on the Google Apps Status Dashboard: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=1355183999000&iid=4abb2f6c40f6bd39677195b9a60ad77d https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=1... "We're investigating reports of an issue with Google Mail. We will provide more information shortly."
- Ironlink 14y agoHaven't had a single problem, using both my Apps account and my Gmail account. Stockholm/Sweden, Firefox.
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- robbiet480 14y agoAnonymous is claiming credit. http://www.chronicle.su/news/gmail-taken-down-by-anonymous/ http://www.chronicle.su/news/gmail-taken-down-by-anonymous/
- nmudgal 14y agoNope, they actually denied it => "Anonymous immediately denied responsibility for the attack on Gmail before finding out that no one knew who perpetrated the attack, thus making it a legitimately"
- nsoldiac 14y agoFirst updates from Google's App Status Dashboard: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=1355201999000&iid=4abb2f6c40f6bd39677195b9a60ad77d http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=13...
- stcredzero 14y agoMy Chrome did not crash, yet I am logged in with Sync. Instead of keeping Gmail in a Chrome tab, I use Fluid app to make Gmail into a "desktop" app. Seems to still be up. Others can use the same workaround by opening Google apps in Firefox and Safari.
- frankyurban 14y agoIt seems to work fine now.
- techinsidr 14y agoSeems to be working fine from Chicago...
- jpdus 14y agoNo chrome crashs here (beta channel, sync enabled, germany, gmail tabs open), but Gmail was down too.
- martinced 14y agoGMail is working fine here (France) both my personal email and my professional email. No Chrome crashing. Linux Debian 64 bit. I use different browsers (in incognito mode), from different user accounts, to surf the web / do online banking / browser hacker news etc. No plugins, no "sync" (heck, I don't even know what that "synch" for Chrome is), no issues.
- uulbiy 14y agoI have similar configuration. Fedora 64Bit, chromium and gmail work fine. No plugins for chromium, no sync, only a gmail tab is open. I use firefox for everything else. This bug seems interesting!
- silasb 14y agoI noticed that none of my comments in my google document saved after I recovered from the crash.
- francesca 14y agoGoogle is down again
- dysoco 14y agoGoogle Plus is down for me now.
- tokenadult 14y agoWhat is with the URL on this submission pointing to the URL any user of Gmail would use to access their account? Could the curators please change the submission URL to a source that shows reliable updated information?