Google Hangouts, Gmail Chat and Google Spreadsheets Go Down

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/17/google-hangouts-and-gmail-chat-go-down

by DerekH • 12 years ago

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gitaarik• 12 years ago

I also don't seem to be able to open some documents in Google drive or have full functionality.

cookiecaper• 12 years ago

Same here, Google Sheets are misbehaving for me but Docs mostly seem ok. Gmail is working.

I'm actually also having problems with Facebook. I loaded up HN to see if others were experiencing the same thing.

mbesto• 12 years ago

I was about to throw my keyboard at the wall because a critical Sheet of mine was failing. Ugh, this is the downside to the cloud...

oconnor0• 12 years ago

Does Google provide a status page for their services?

nodata2• 12 years ago

http://www.google.com/appsstatus

officialjunk• 12 years ago

thanks. i've actually never seen this before.

does the status appear as orange semi-circles for anyone else? it looks intentional based on the source, but semi-circles are not in the legend at the bottom. wonder if it's based on how long it's been down, or the number of affected instances or something else...

passepartout• 12 years ago

To quote Adventure Time's Lemon Grab, "unacceptable"!!

benburton• 12 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIZbGSXeWWE

nodata2• 12 years ago

Works for me.

coherentpony• 12 years ago

Same.

vinhboy• 12 years ago

Gchat has been down for me for over an hour. I don't ever remember a google service being out for that long.

valevk• 12 years ago

For a brief moment, just a brief moment, I thought they are shutting them down.

sdfjkl3• 12 years ago

While Google does shut down services all the time, they do typically give a few months warning first.

kclay• 12 years ago

The Voice page was down shortly as well.

zecho• 12 years ago

I'm able to get forwarded calls but not make calls from the service.

casca• 12 years ago

Amusingly, with Hangouts down, Skype video chats have become unusable. Time to move to Jitsi[1]?

[1] https://jitsi.org/

rkuykendall-com3• 12 years ago

The nice thing about WebRTC is that video chat services have exploded. I've been using https://appear.in/ lately. It couldn't be simpler to start group video chats.

User87122• 12 years ago

How do these typically compare to Skype or Hangouts in terms of video and sound quality?

sdfjkl3• 12 years ago

High time, if you value privacy (use ZRTP). Or open standards.

chillingeffect• 12 years ago

for those like me :) to whom it's not obvious: how come?

Skype is from Microsoft and Hangouts is from Google, right?!

Thank you for your patience in the face of my utterly stunning cluelessness.

theg22• 12 years ago

So here's something interesting: http://i.imgur.com/5ek8L9X.png

When I send or receive an email, it's exactly 1 hour behind. Wonder if it's related.

sdfjkl3• 12 years ago

Most likely just messed up timezones. It's the season for that (we're in the magical 3 week or so period where DST is applied in the US but not yet in Europe).

theg22• 12 years ago

That's a valid guess but we're seeing it intermittently in the office which is why I raised it.

fidotron• 12 years ago

So the status page ( http://www.google.com/appsstatus ) mentions that Hangouts isn't covered by an SLA. Is that still true if you bought one of the Chromebox for Meetings which when discussed sounded like it used the same infrastructure?

Or are those Hangouts actually Google Talk and not G+ Hangouts? And how stupid is it that that is something resembling a decent question?

ChikkaChiChi• 12 years ago

Talk is still covered in the SLA, Hangouts is not.

Don't ask me to explain what PHB came up with that logic.

dcc1• 12 years ago

Yes very annoying especially when paying them, also Outlook.com was having issues too :(

and blockchain.info is down too

Rofu2000• 12 years ago

About to be the most productive day for me in awhile.

ffreitasalves• 12 years ago

Here in my company we had the same problem and we are using http://practiceconversation.com as alternative, nobody uses this site, so it is nice so far.

didgeoridoo• 12 years ago

Just got an email from Google on my grandfathered free Apps account encouraging me to upgrade to "ensure 99.9% uptime". Excellent timing, guys.

noise• 12 years ago

Same here. Coincidence? I think not. They even added details about how much Drive data I have, a passive threat that it might not be safe if I don't cough up for the paid account.

rkuykendall-com3• 12 years ago

Same: "Get 99.9% guaranteed uptime for Gmail and other business features"

Very poor timing.

psbp• 12 years ago

30 minutes out of a year is less than .1%

executive• 12 years ago

Where are all the SREs now? Cowering in fear.

Google Hangouts, Gmail Chat and Google Spreadsheets Go Down

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