Isn't it alanic, don't you think?

[cdave]

My Dad just phoned to see if I Gmail was down for me too. It was.

So I thought I'd try and find out why.

It wasn't until after I'd had a look, that I realised how ironic it was.

(News seems to be that the website's down for everyone, but IMAP and POP are still working. Google's saying they don't yet know why, but are working on it).

Comments

[offensive-mango.livejournal.com]

I assure you that IMAP and POP aren't working, not on my phone, at least.

This is part of the new world order that I hate. In the old days, sometimes things had a fault for an hour or so, and you waited, and then someone resolved it. Now, though, the moment Gmail doesn't work, people bitch and moan and Twitter and create "news" about it, as if it were worthy of being news. An outage for a week? That's news. An hour? Not so much.

It was the same the other day when Google VERY briefly marked every website as being potentially harmful. There's no reason that should have been in any way interesting to anyone, except in passing.

ARGH.

[andrewducker]

IMAP working for me. IDLE keeps on dropping, but hitting send/receive brings it back ok.

Of course, I haven't actually got any emails for a bit, but that could be because nobody is emailing me :->

[offensive-mango.livejournal.com]

It's possibly my phone being an idiot. Here's hoping this comment triggers an email that tests your IMAP.

[andrewducker]

Win!

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

IMAP working for me, too.

[chiller.livejournal.com]

YES, this. I have no email this morning. Hey ho. I've spent the time playing with kittens. :)

Mind you, it's still down.

[offensive-mango.livejournal.com]

It was down. It's back now. That two to three hours really put things in perspective, didn't it? Gosh, how we once lived. Too bad I have already killed and eaten one and a half of my co-workers--on reflection, perhaps that was a hasty decision.

[chiller.livejournal.com]

It is daft. I think they should just switch off the internet on weekends or something. Make us all go for a nice walk instead.

[cdave]

The other point being it used to take days to weeks for something to enter a search engine's cache.

These days if I try and search a phrase from someone's new livejournal post to see where it's from, then the LJ post is usually on the first page of results.