Update: My Gmail account is back up now. I contacted Google support around 10:00AM on Friday (8/15/08) morning, and they responded (and corrected) the issue by 1:00PM.
Around noon yesterday, Gmail stopped working. I figured it was a small hiccup, as Google is typically pretty reliable. It lasted the rest of the day. Well, I was busy all evening, but thought I’d check before I went to bed. Still not working. So I reported an issue.
I woke up this morning hoping things would be back in order, but they’re not. Now, not only is my Gmail account still not loading, but my iChat buddy list is empty (since it’s based off of my Google contacts). This sucks.
All of my other Google services are working just fine (such as Google Reader), so it’s weird. And I know of several other people that aren’t having a single issue with Gmail. I didn’t see anything on the known issues page, either.
Does anyone know what in the world is going on? Are you experiencing the same “502 Service Unavailable” errors? I’d love to at least know that I’m not the only one, but at this point, it feels like I am.
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Chris on Fri Aug 15 at 07:45AM
Odd – mine has been working just fine.
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Aaron H. on Fri Aug 15 at 11:53AM
My Gmail (and many other people I know) had that earlier this week, but it lasted only a few hours. The GMail Google Group had a rep in there updating info at the time. However, since then, it has all been fine for me.
One thing that worked for me during the outage was accessing GMail via the html page http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html
Finally, I often find that in situations like this, doing a quick search at summize.com will let you know how widespread the issue is.
Good luck. I know how panicked this just made me.