Google Hangouts, Gmail Chat and Google Spreadsheets Go Down

[fidotron]

So the status page ( 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]

Talk is still covered in the SLA, Hangouts is not.

Don't ask me to explain what PHB came up with that logic.

[didgeoridoo]

Just got an email from Google on my grandfathered free Apps account encouraging me to upgrade to "ensure 99.9% uptime". Excellent timing, guys.

[psbp]

30 minutes out of a year is less than .1%

[noise]

Same 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.

[rkuykendall-com]

Same: "Get 99.9% guaranteed uptime for Gmail and other business features"

Very poor timing.

[casca]

Amusingly, with Hangouts down, Skype video chats have become unusable. Time to move to Jitsi[1]?

[1] https://jitsi.org/

[rkuykendall-com]

The nice thing about WebRTC is that video chat services have exploded. I've been using https://appear.in/ lately. It couldn't be simpler to start group video chats.

[chillingeffect]

for those like me :) to whom it's not obvious: how come?

Skype is from Microsoft and Hangouts is from Google, right?!

Thank you for your patience in the face of my utterly stunning cluelessness.

[sdfjkl]

High time, if you value privacy (use ZRTP). Or open standards.

[gitaarik]

I also don't seem to be able to open some documents in Google drive or have full functionality.

[cookiecaper]

Same 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.

[vinhboy]

Gchat has been down for me for over an hour. I don't ever remember a google service being out for that long.

[theg2]

So here's something interesting: http://i.imgur.com/5ek8L9X.png

When I send or receive an email, it's exactly 1 hour behind. Wonder if it's related.

[sdfjkl]

Most likely just messed up timezones. It's the season for that (we're in the magical 3 week or so period where DST is applied in the US but not yet in Europe).

[valevk]

For a brief moment, just a brief moment, I thought they are shutting them down.

[sdfjkl]

While Google does shut down services all the time, they do typically give a few months warning first.

[ffreitasalves]

Here in my company we had the same problem and we are using http://practiceconversation.com as alternative, nobody uses this site, so it is nice so far.

[passepartout]

To quote Adventure Time's Lemon Grab, "unacceptable"!!

[benburton]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIZbGSXeWWE

[oconnor0]

Does Google provide a status page for their services?

[nodata]

http://www.google.com/appsstatus

[dcc1]

Yes very annoying especially when paying them, also Outlook.com was having issues too :(

and blockchain.info is down too

[Rofu2000]

About to be the most productive day for me in awhile.

[executive]

Where are all the SREs now? Cowering in fear.

[kclay]

The Voice page was down shortly as well.

[zecho]

I'm able to get forwarded calls but not make calls from the service.

[nodata]

Works for me.

[coherentpony]

Same.