I’m getting so tired of seeing this error message (click to enlarge).
This along with the “Oops … we were unable to perform the operation” or whatever their cute-sie error message is has become all too common for the past week to week and a half.
It hasn’t come to it yet, but at the current rate of degradation in service, it won’t take long for GMail to be rendered useless for me. I’ve had to go back on my swearing off of IM clients. For now I’m using Meebo (neat IM client by the way) when the GTalk service is failing through GMail for me (oddly, I can still get on GTalk through Meebo’s jabber service just fine).
And for the record, I’ve been having these problems on multiple computers that operate on multiple networks. So I think it’s pretty safe to assume that it is particular to either the entire GMail+GTalk service or my account and not to my computer or my connection.
UPDATE: While trying to get things back up with chat in GMail, I got this. Hmm, maybe it’s time to try out Thunderbird again…
UPDATE: Now I’m really getting pissed. GMail is taking its sweet time in delivering email to me apparently. I’m receiving emails hours after they were originally sent. I’m pretty close to going back to using my own server for email. This kind of unreliability isn’t worth it.
UPDATE: Now a friend has received a “this message has been delayed” response when trying to send me an email. I’ve moved my email account now, so shouldn’t be an issue going forward. Bah, too bad, I really liked gmail, but I can’t deal with this.
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I get these errors from time to time, but mostly when I lose Internet connectivity. Especially when I’m using Wifi.
Yeah, unfortunately it started to happen to the point I could no longer use the service reliably even for email. Too bad really.
Exactly.. Google’s services are thoughful enough that we end up depending on them, but then the infrastructure isn’t there. Like most free web 2.0 apps they aren’t scaling, but Google doesn’t have the beg-off of being new and small, they SHOULD have the infrastructure in place to handle this kind of work.
Here’s another example, http://sleepyblogger.com/?p=166
Yeah, me too. Getting really annoying (actually already past that point I guess) that this still isn’t working for me. No problems at all on my other machine. Network doesn’t seem to be the issue because it doesn’t work when using my work wired/wi-fi connection or my home wired/wi-fi connection. Not seeing any oddities in my firewall settings either.
Yeah, I had heard that there were some new issues this week with google (this post is actually from a while back). It was just frustrating that it seemed when these problems happened, they would persist for awhile. Other email hosts (yahoo mail, hotmail, etc) periodically might bounce an email here or there, but even if the UI was having availability issues, usually the mail was still being collected and would be there for me when I could finally get in. With gMail it seems like if the UI is down, then delivery is down as well, which is no good, at least if you’re relying on your email for anything serious.
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