gMail + gTalk = gFailure

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.