Gmail’s down! What do I do!?!
This entry was posted on Aug 11 2008
I’ve become painfully aware of how Gmail dependant I am. I was expecting an e-mail from a friend when their Gmail account went down. By the time they’d sent the message from a different account, my Gmail account had kicked me out to this error screen:
In Google Talk, slowly all of my buddies signed off. I even got a few messages via AIM lamenting their broken Gmails. A quick Google News search pulled up a few articles about the outage. Here’s a post from the Gmail Help Discussion:
The Gmail team is currently aware of a subset of users being affected
by the 502 error on login. Our engineers are looking into the issue
and we will provide updates here as they become available.Thanks,
Gmail Guide
At first I was pretty sure that “subset” meant “majority” but now I’m not so sure. Oddly enough, my father’s still signed into Google Talk. And I can actually access his e-mail, no problem.
Regardless, I can’t read e-mails I need to read, I can’t send e-mails I need to send, and I can’t talk via Google Chat to the people who are perma-signed-in to Gmail.
And… this post is moot. Gmail’s back. Woot.
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