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Google Hangouts, Gmail Chat and Google Spreadsheets Go Down
- gitaarik 13y agoI also don't seem to be able to open some documents in Google drive or have full functionality.
- cookiecaper 13y agoSame 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 13y agoI 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 13y agoDoes Google provide a status page for their services?
- nodata 13y agohttp://www.google.com/appsstatus http://www.google.com/appsstatus
- officialjunk 13y agothanks. 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...
- aiiane 13y agoSemi-circle = issue is not fully resolved yet.
- passepartout 13y agoTo quote Adventure Time's Lemon Grab, "unacceptable"!!
- benburton 13y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIZbGSXeWWE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIZbGSXeWWE
- nodata 13y agoWorks for me.
- coherentpony 13y agoSame.
- valevk 13y agoFor a brief moment, just a brief moment, I thought they are shutting them down.
- sdfjkl 13y agoWhile Google does shut down services all the time, they do typically give a few months warning first.
- vinhboy 13y agoGchat has been down for me for over an hour. I don't ever remember a google service being out for that long.
- kclay 13y agoThe Voice page was down shortly as well.
- zecho 13y agoI'm able to get forwarded calls but not make calls from the service.
- casca 13y agoAmusingly, with Hangouts down, Skype video chats have become unusable. Time to move to Jitsi[1]? [1] https://jitsi.org/ https://jitsi.org/
- rkuykendall-com 13y agoThe nice thing about WebRTC is that video chat services have exploded. I've been using https://appear.in/ https://appear.in/ lately. It couldn't be simpler to start group video chats.
- User8712 13y agoHow do these typically compare to Skype or Hangouts in terms of video and sound quality?
- rkuykendall-com 13y agoFrom a subjective standpoint: perfectly. From a technical standpoint: I believe Hangouts is moving to WebRTC soon as well.
- User8712 13y agoWhat about from a security standpoint? How safe are these web applications, and how confident can I be they're not logging audio or video from my calls? I'm not talking about government intelligence security, I'm talking about not appearing in my pajamas on the pirate bay.
- tracker1 13y agoIf both parties can get a raw socket in, then it's peer to peer... otherwise it's via proxy.
- somesay 13y agoI would say, you always have to trust the service provider. While you can manually verify a direct end-to-end connection etc., web apps could always easily change, without user notice. Well, but that's also true for any proprietary app that isn't open source and code-reviewed. It could be a browser feature in the future to sandbox those webcam data so that it's only transfered to a specific opponent. That has some problems to solve and is just a raw thought.
- theg2 13y agoSo here's something interesting: http://i.imgur.com/5ek8L9X.png http://i.imgur.com/5ek8L9X.png When I send or receive an email, it's exactly 1 hour behind. Wonder if it's related.
- fidotron 13y agoSo the status page ( http://www.google.com/appsstatus 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 13y agoTalk is still covered in the SLA, Hangouts is not. Don't ask me to explain what PHB came up with that logic.
- dcc1 13y agoYes very annoying especially when paying them, also Outlook.com was having issues too :( and blockchain.info is down too
- Rofu2000 13y agoAbout to be the most productive day for me in awhile.
- ffreitasalves 13y agoHere in my company we had the same problem and we are using http://practiceconversation.com http://practiceconversation.com as alternative, nobody uses this site, so it is nice so far.
- didgeoridoo 13y agoJust got an email from Google on my grandfathered free Apps account encouraging me to upgrade to "ensure 99.9% uptime". Excellent timing, guys.
- noise 13y agoSame 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.
- psbp 13y ago30 minutes out of a year is less than .1%
- rkuykendall-com 13y agoSame: "Get 99.9% guaranteed uptime for Gmail and other business features" Very poor timing.
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- executive 13y agoWhere are all the SREs now? Cowering in fear.