all green, which does not reflect reality for me (e.g. Gmail is down)

edit: shows how incredibly difficult introspection is

Of course it will, - at least, it better - but what if it doesn't? And if it does, are you going to take countermeasures in case it happens again or is it just going to be 'back to normal' again?

Disclaimer - Googler here whose workplace chat is not working.

/s - for now ;)

Edit: As I comment it looks like things are coming back! Timing or what...

https://imgur.com/a/3RurTYf

Don't forget to #HugOps all the people who've been woken up on a monday morning with this! Hope this gets resolved soon :)

[1] https://www.atlassian.com/software/statuspage/hugops

"Gmail is temporarily unable to access your Contacts. You may experience issues while this persists."

And I have never seen them load so fast before - gmail progress bar barely seen for a fraction of a second whereas I am more used to seeing it for multiple seconds (2-3 sec) until it loads.

I observe the same anecdotal speedup for other sites... drive, youtube, calendar. I wonder if they are throwing all the hardware they have at their services or I am encountering underutilized servers since it is not fixed for everyone.

It is nice to experience (even if it is short lived) the snappiness of Google services if they weren't so multi-tenented.

Did Maria Christensen make a mistake when adding "return true;"?

(This is a joke referencing Tom Scott's 2014 parable[1] about the danger of designing a system with a single point of failure. Tom's tells the fictional tale of a high level employee at Google adding "return true;" to the global "handleLogin()" function.)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4GB_NDU43Q (you might need to open this link in a private window...)

I already imagined the only solution now was to write a medium post and hope it gets some traction on hackernews and google support steps in. Thinking to myself I was an idiot for knowing all this and still thinking it wouldn't happen to me.

And even though it turns out to be an outage, it gave me a bad enough feeling to start using a domain name I own for my email.

Edit: Services were down from ~12:55pm to ~1:52pm, it's 57minutes. Thanks hiby007

[1] https://workspace.google.com/intl/en/terms/sla.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability#Percentage_c...

Give people a bonus when things didn’t break, not only when there is a superhero that fixes broken things. Then you’re rewarding fragile systems that need superheroes.

If you are logged in, the page crashes with an error.

You can still browse all services from Incognito (which for some is not an option).

But funnily enough, a lot of the votes come from traffic that searches for "is ____ down?" on Google. XD

I would guess the search page does not actually use your credentials for anything since fingerprinting is separate from login?

Works fine once you log out.

For me, backing up to the Cloud is fine, because I find the risk of my home being broken into and everything stolen AND the cloud goes down AND the cloud services are completely unrecoverable is a small enough risk to tolerate.

I don't think it's possible to have permanently indestructible files in existence over a given time period.

It reports error that my Google Account can't be found. I thought my account had been deleted!

Everybody uses it, so if, like, Gmail loses all the emails, we are then in such a state that the consequences will be more bearable and socially normal.

Most people are fine with accepting that whatever future thing will happen to most people will also happen to them. Because then the consequences will also be normal.

If the apocalypse comes, it comes for almost all of us and that's consolation enough.

It's very comforting to have a local copy of everything important in situations like this one.

[1] https://wiki.emilburzo.com/backing-up-your-google-digital-li...

A few years ago I released a bug in production that prevented users from logging into our desktop app. It affected about ~1k users before we found out and rolled back the release.

I still remember a very cold feeling in my belly, barely could sleep that night. It is difficult to imagine what the people responsible for this are feeling right now.

Most of the things I backed up with google remain largely accessible, except for an occasion like this.

It's rare that any services I operate solo come back this quickly after there is a downing issue.