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Ask HN: Anyone else getting a 500 on their Google Calendars?

148 pointsby CodinMover 3 years ago
Why do we even have status pages anymore.

29 comments

lukepothierover 3 years ago
I thought I and all my colleagues were getting 500s, but then I checked the status page and saw a green check. Silly me!
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ohadronover 3 years ago
Appears so. We can expect a productivity spike as many people are missing their meetings at the moment.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;downdetector.com&#x2F;status&#x2F;google-calendar&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;downdetector.com&#x2F;status&#x2F;google-calendar&#x2F;</a>
_trackno5over 3 years ago
Yes, both Gmail and Calendar are impacted.<p>You can still access your calendar via <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;calendar.google.com&#x2F;u&#x2F;0&#x2F;embed?mode=week" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;calendar.google.com&#x2F;u&#x2F;0&#x2F;embed?mode=week</a><p>This brings back the old UI (Google Agenda times).<p>I&#x27;m amazed by how little that page downloads. I&#x27;m getting less than 1MB here. Gmail downloads 20MB to display my inbox.
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matsemannover 3 years ago
After refreshing a few times, I&#x27;m now greeted by impossible to solve captchas.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;GQhvUen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;GQhvUen</a><p>Also, this isn&#x27;t normal captchas where you can get sounds or stuff. These are completely inaccessible for many people.
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Andugalover 3 years ago
And of course, like yesterday&#x27;s AWS outage, their status page is all green: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;appsstatus&#x2F;dashboard&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;appsstatus&#x2F;dashboard&#x2F;</a>
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bullenover 3 years ago
Last week Google Play was crashing on my phone over and over again (making the device an expensive paperweight over time since banking apps have mandatory updates)... I reinstalled and that fixed it for a short while and then after it started perma-crashing again I received the mail about mandatory 2FA, did that and since then no problems.<p>We need to move away from these big companies NOW!<p>Get your own HTTP, DNS and SMTP server (in that order), your own domains, host at home with fiber and lead-acid backup!<p>Make your ISPs enable static IP and open DNS + SMTP ports.
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jakub_gover 3 years ago
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;appsstatus&#x2F;dashboard&#x2F;incidents&#x2F;zURR7mGQjom4ktGZcR5A" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;appsstatus&#x2F;dashboard&#x2F;incidents&#x2F;zURR7m...</a><p>&gt; 10:40 AM UTC The problem with Google Calendar has been resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support.<p>&gt; Incident began at 2021-12-08 08:40 and ended at 2021-12-08 10:20 (times are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)).
tomxorover 3 years ago
Google 500 == new snowday ? :D<p>I can imagine it now, workers eagerly awaiting the radio announcements over breakfast: &quot;The following regions have Google datacenter outages...&quot;
michaelbuckbeeover 3 years ago
It would be more interesting if the status page also had a test function scoped to the specific user. For something Google Calendar it could OAuth, but for things like public websites&#x2F;services it could do a HTTP GET (or whatever makes sense).
dna_polymeraseover 3 years ago
Obviously there is no problem: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;appsstatus&#x2F;dashboard&#x2F;#v=status" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;appsstatus&#x2F;dashboard&#x2F;#v=status</a><p>But I&#x27;m getting 500 anyway ;)
kashyapcover 3 years ago
Yeah; it is 500. But it works for me with `gcalcli`[1] — a Python command-line tool that uses GCal API.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;insanum&#x2F;gcalcli" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;insanum&#x2F;gcalcli</a>
zild3dover 3 years ago
Maybe google calendar runs on AWS
12ian34over 3 years ago
Yes, and Google Meet is buggy and slow for me. Couldn&#x27;t join my standup on desktop (managed on mobile).
jakozaurover 3 years ago
Anyone else got opinion that some sites such as social media, calendar apps should have scheduled one day mandatory outage per year by law :-).<p>Certain customer may opt-out, but by default we should do global unplug once per year.
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aargh_aarghover 3 years ago
I had a problem, too. Intermittent 500, then Offline. Seems to work right now.
kevinstubbsover 3 years ago
Yep me too. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;servicesdown.com&#x2F;services&#x2F;google-calendar" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;servicesdown.com&#x2F;services&#x2F;google-calendar</a>
TruthWillHurtover 3 years ago
The calendar sidebar in mailbox does not load, but opening the full calendar seems to work.<p>Interestingly, it asked me to fill a captca test. Could it be an attack?
ineedasernameover 3 years ago
<i>&gt;getting a 500 on their calendars</i><p>If you have 500 meetings in Gcal on anything but a multi-year view, you may want to consider a new job.
triplelllover 3 years ago
i&#x27;ve been getting a &#x27;server problem [400]&#x27; in my music.youtube app on android for weeks when trying to play my own uploaded albums. reported through every channel i could find. i think nobody at G. is even trying to pretend they care.<p>companies die once their legal dept. ends up in charge of everything. at G this happened around 2010.
oandeover 3 years ago
Seems like an intermittent issue... Got one or two 500 errors in the past 5 minutes, sometimes just loads very slowly.
tinyhouseover 3 years ago
So now Google even copies AWS outages...
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mft_over 3 years ago
Nope - all good here. Personal and corporate Gmail&#x2F;Gcal working currently.
ISLover 3 years ago
Working for me -- Seattle.
mrwzyover 3 years ago
Yes. We did. But it seems to be back now.
mywacadayover 3 years ago
Slower than usual to load but have access
iso1631over 3 years ago
Gotta love that SaaS reliability
zeglover 3 years ago
Yep, same here (in the EU).
dominik-2020over 3 years ago
I did
BerislavLopacover 3 years ago
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29482669" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29482669</a>