I moved off to Radicale years ago:<p><a href="https://radicale.org/" rel="nofollow">https://radicale.org/</a><p>I use it with Thunderbird, and DavDroid (now DavX) to handle all my events and contacts (SMS contacts even show up correctly in Hangouts on Android phones)<p>I realize GCal is rarely ever down, but they do harvest all your data to sell you shit.<p>Here's a basic Dockerfile for Radicale if you want to try it out:<p><a href="https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/tree/master/dockerfiles/Radicale" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/tree/master/dockerfiles/Radic...</a>
Surprised nothing shows up on <a href="https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status</a> for it. What's the point of a status site that doesn't reflect the status?
Just got 4 calls from different departments and two people coming here saying the internet is broken ("Google calendar is broken company wide!").<p>(Please introduce more meaningful error messages, Google)
This is the 2nd time a Google product has been down in the last month. What is going on there?<p>Previous one was only 15 days ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20077421" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20077421</a>
What's going on with google lately? First the google cloud outage earlier this month and now this? I wonder if there's some sort of systemic problem they're dealing with
Also I would like to point out an interesting side effect that the #1 result in google for "Google calendar 404" is down with a "Too many requests" error :D
This is especially chaotic for business GSuite users. Wonder if there's an offline/local cache service available for cloud-hosted systems, that would be a good middle-ground between local control and cloud-backed scale.
Writing your own little personal-use web apps can be really nice - not sure how common this is, but I highly recommend it. I did it for tasks, time tracking, invoicing, and personal finances, partly because Google and others kept "upgrading" and screwing up the UI & performance of the tools I was relying on.<p>Each took about a day to write, and is customized exactly the way I like it; if I need a shortcut key, a weird little feature, etc. I can do it. I'm kind of an optimization / performance nut too, so they all run uber-fast, no perceptible delay from click to page / screen loaded (Sqlite is great for these kinds of things). Data is totally private and under your control. It's really nice.<p>However, calendar was complicated enough that I just use Google's. Might be time to rethink..
Well I get that shit happens, but what is strange about these recent google incidents is actual downtime. 5 hours for google cloud, and almost 1 hour already for calendar.<p>I thought google can do better.
I don't use Calendar but was able to spam F5 and after a few times, you seem to get in.<p>About 1 in 15 times I'm managing to load it at the moment.<p>Looks like some instances are live; but capacity is evidently a fraction of what it should be.
Anyone notice that they do not use recaptcha for this page? Apparently old fashioned skewed text works fine to protect google's own services from bots!
Instagram is down too, coincidence? (<a href="https://downdetector.com/status/instagram" rel="nofollow">https://downdetector.com/status/instagram</a>)