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Official Gmail Blog: Today's Gmail problems
- Derrek 17y agoIt's slightly comforting to be reminded that even the "big boys" sometimes have tech problems too
- Anon84 17y agoI believe in the law of conservation of messes... If you mess up frequently, each mess will be small. However, if you do it once in a blue moon, each will be catastrophic! Of course there is also a size dependent scaling factor... the higher you are, the harder you fall! ;)
- jmtulloss 17y agoTwitter really exemplifies this. They failed a lot and nobody (except programmers) cared since, hey, twitter's always down. Now they don't fail often, have a huge worldwide audience, and every failure is news event.
- Mongoose 17y agoI'm impressed by their App Status Dashboard (http://www.google.com/appsstatus http://www.google.com/appsstatus), which I hadn't seen before today. It's a very helpful tool for when this kind of outage happens. I wish Twitter would follow suit.
- hboon 17y agoTwitter's own status blog was just undergoing maintenance the minute I sent out a URL to one of the post on it (a few hours ago). Forget it.
- tdavis 17y agoWow, HN is becoming a really shitty filter. This update says nothing more than what's on the Apps Dashboard. How about waiting for some actual news before voting nothing up to #5?
- icey 17y agoIt only took 24 out of the thousands of people that read here to do that. No downvote available and no reason to flag the submission.
- StarReturn 17y agoI'm currious if the subset of users affected was geographic based or just a set number of users. I'm i Canada and did not have any issues with Gmail and I didn't see any tweets, fb updates from my Canadian crew on the issue. However people in the US appeared to be telling the world about their inability to access Gmail.