Whats The Deal with Gmail Lately?

Posted Mar 9th 2006 4:04PM by Chris Gilmer

It seems as though Gmail has been acting up a lot recently. The system seems to have been encountering server errors, and all sorts of other issues lately.

Could this be sign of some new updates? New additions to the interface? New features? I guess we will just have to wait and see. Last night it was down for myself personally for about 30 minutes.

Anyhow this looks like it all points to some kind of updates, whether it be new service additions, or server maintenance. Happy Emailing!

Reader Comments

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1. So you're saying that we're supposed to be excited when our email stops working?

Makes sense to me.

Posted at 4:30PM on Mar 9th 2006 by Andrew

2. Just as I become to depend on it for backup of all my emails....
(over 70,000 emails in my account already!)

Posted at 5:01PM on Mar 9th 2006 by Moshe

3. yeah me too... down somewhere between 15 to 30 minutes last night and around noon today. 2nd and 3rd time i've ever caught this happening.

Posted at 5:14PM on Mar 9th 2006 by pacificdave

4. Down right now also - 502 server error. Sigh.

Posted at 7:43AM on Mar 10th 2006 by Jason

5. I love GMAIL, use it as my main email, but it's starting to be a pain being up and down this often...*sigh*

Posted at 10:28AM on Mar 10th 2006 by Trish

6. google is putting out a calendar.
here is some pron for ya..

http://ihearttheg.blogspot.com/

Posted at 10:40AM on Mar 10th 2006 by dave

7. Might want to reconsider what your told about search engines and free email.

i have noticed the gmail down times too. and they always seen to happen when im in the middle of generating a list of billions of links on google. my bad? I have tried warning them but they dont respond.

get the truth about search engines here on my blog

http://spaces.msn.com/spiderbotsownzuall/

feel free to comment

Posted at 10:43PM on Mar 10th 2006 by xspider2006

8. Might want to reconsider what your told about search engines and free email.

i have noticed the gmail down times too. and they always seen to happen when im in the middle of generating a list of billions of links on google. my bad? I have tried warning them but they dont respond.

get the truth about search engines here on my blog

http://spaces.msn.com/spiderbotsownzuall/

feel free to comment

Posted at 10:43PM on Mar 10th 2006 by xspider2006

9. Might want to reconsider what your told about search engines and free email.

i have noticed the gmail down times too. and they always seen to happen when im in the middle of generating a list of billions of links on google. my bad? I have tried warning them but they dont respond.

get the truth about search engines here on my blog

http://spaces.msn.com/spiderbotsownzuall/

feel free to comment

Posted at 10:44PM on Mar 10th 2006 by xspider2006

10. Been having a major problem for a while, namely, GMail crashes FF1.5. Using Flock to access it now.

Posted at 9:25PM on Mar 12th 2006 by Godfrey Daniel

11. SERIOUS problems accessing Gmail, be it via a browser or popping it using Thunderbird. Several messages have been sent and aren't even getting through. Anyone else?

Posted at 11:07PM on Mar 20th 2006 by CJ

12. yep, same problem cj. i'm amazed nobody at google is adressing the problems, as they are obviously quite serious.

Posted at 1:26PM on Mar 21st 2006 by lokkenic

13. I never faced any problem with gmail yet.

Posted at 11:42AM on Apr 2nd 2006 by Vivek Sachdeva

14. I have been a gmail user for half a year and so far I like it a lot. The problem is that I don't know if there is a way to create folder. I want to keep all the emails as records but I just don't want to see all of them in the inbox.

Posted at 3:29PM on Apr 6th 2006 by Jacky

15. I'm thinking that the server load is the problem with gmail. Search is a quick hit and you're in and out, and the cache is very helpful, but the email server, that's a moving target and caching is virutally useless, so it might just be that it's not their focus... after all it is a beta product and they did say in the EULA that they may discontinue it at any point. Perhaps it's just not working out for them enough to care.

Posted at 10:18AM on Apr 12th 2006 by Dave

16. I still like my gmail account, pretty handy.

Posted at 9:06PM on Apr 14th 2006 by Jacky

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