is gmail fucking up for anyone else?

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or is it just me?

like, long load times, sometimes can get in. it used to be so snappy :(

are there any gmail discussions out there that someone can recommend?

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i haven't noticed any problems.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

gmail is so 2004

― jushinthunderliger (deangulberry), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Mine's working just fine, thank you.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

oh well it's fine now, but over this past week it's been spotty.

i use safari.

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

it's always been difficult on safari for me.

― jushinthunderliger (deangulberry), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

is firefox good on osx?

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

FIREFOX 1.0, MUHFUHZ

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't had any problems with it so far.

― Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Much less glitchy than hotmail, that's for sure.

― Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

so, camino, then.

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost yeah and suddenly we have 250mb on hotmail!! microsoft feelin the ph34r...

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

microsoft debuts their search engine tomorrow.

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The beta version was mediocre at best.

― Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Have had a few times when it wouldn't let me sign in, but was always able to in 10-15 minutes.

The main thing that annoys me, which I wasn't aware of until the other day, is that it won't allow you to send Zip file attachments. I swear I used to be able to do this... Anybody know anything about this?

― chopher (chopher), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

it has been for me . . . not loading well & apparently not sending messages as quickly.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

bitchy for me the last coupla days.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

long load for me too usually. all the people i have invited so far were like "this is crap, it takes so long" and probably wont use it as a result.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I had two emails it never sent, but that was in the first month or so that I had it. It's been fine for the last few months.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

It works fine for me but one unusual glitch, in IE I have to reload the page after logging in three times (exactly three, every time I do this), before I see my inbox, wtf!?

And before anyone mocks me I use Mozilla at home, this is at work where I've no choice (and in Mozilla it loads first time, no probs)

Never had any problems sending or getting files, tho Ive not tried zips. Why on earth would they ban zipfiles?

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

ah i love pop gmail

― Spinning Down Alone You Spin Alive (ex machina), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Also it is never slow for me either.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

yea, you peopel are dubm bbb

― Spinning Down Alone You Spin Alive (ex machina), Thursday, 11 November 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

GMAIL KILLED MY FAMILY!

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

it wouldn't let me send an exe to myself the other day.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 11 November 2004 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, I've noticed that it won't let me send .exe's, either (as well as zips).

I haven't looked into it, but I can only assume that it's a security measure. Even so, it could be what ends up making me drop gmail. I love it, but for work I'm often required to send exes and zips. And renaming the file extensions to something else and then explaining to the recipients that they have to rename them back to the original ext. is too big a pain in the ass as most of them can barely check their email the way it is, let alone rename files.

― chopher (chopher), Thursday, 11 November 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

ok my gmail hasn't been working all day, it won't send messages, it just hangs there. wtf? combine this with the vague, repeated "network outages" at columbia and i'm wondering if maybe i should just break down and pay for some damn email.

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

it says it's sending my messages, but they aren't added to "sent messages". and i haven't received a bunch of mail that ppl said was coming to me - in fact, nothing at all in the last week. just me?

― jermaine (jnoble), Sunday, 10 July 2005 06:13 (twenty years ago)

seems to be working fine for me

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 10 July 2005 06:28 (twenty years ago)

Mine's been working fine too.

Unless I'm getting emails and it's just not showing them, of course. But as far as I *know* it's working fine.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 10 July 2005 06:29 (twenty years ago)

ten months pass...

okay, what the FUCK weirdness is this?

about 10 minutes ago i started getting weird little stray pixelly bits in the compose window. thusly:

http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/gmail1.jpg

i quit the browser/logged out/restarted: all to no avail. this, i figured, was something google are doing at their end.

i was right. as soon as i switch my settings to english (UK) from US, it behaves perfectly. thusly:

http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/gmail2.jpg

mac os 10.4, firefox ... anyone else seeing this? what the fuck are they doing with it?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 29 May 2006 22:55 (twenty years ago)

It does it to me all the time in Firefox. Try changing it back to English (US) -- it'll probably still be fine.

― stet (stet), Monday, 29 May 2006 23:06 (twenty years ago)

does anyone else see a little extra pixel up on the top right of the gmail cursor?

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 14:17 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I do!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Yes, me too - Wikipedia use it too and it really annoys me - makes me think I've typed something already which is hiding behind the cursor! I'm not sure what the logic is - anyone?

― Crimea River (Mark C), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 14:58 (twenty years ago)

changing the language prefs (or using ie) as above fixes the cursor but change it back and the blip is still there.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Have any of you tried it on a different browser?

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 06:20 (twenty years ago)

you can't use chat on another browser, i think.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 07:51 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I didn't know that. I just wondered if the little cursor chap shows up on another browser. It happens to me too, but I am also using Firefox on OSX something-or-other.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 07:54 (twenty years ago)

It turns out this is the bidi (bi-directional) cursor. It turns up to show you which direction the next letter is going to appear in, on pages that support more than one language type.

Wikipedia should have it, though the Firefox people are talking about turning it off. Gmail only has it because of a bug (though the bug has been open for over six months).

You should be able to turn it off by typing about:config into the location bar, searching for bidi and setting bidi.support to 0, but that didn't work for me. Perhaps it's another bug.

― stet (stet), Saturday, 3 June 2006 03:29 (twenty years ago)

It is, apparently, some sort of Firefox rendering problem. The shout has gone out to the nice people in Firefox that this is annoying everyone, and it is on the list of things to be fixed in a new version.

Apparently.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Saturday, 3 June 2006 06:53 (twenty years ago)

Gmail is extremely slow at times for me.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 3 June 2006 07:16 (twenty years ago)

very interesting stet!

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 3 June 2006 10:41 (twenty years ago)

yes, he has his uses sometimes ;) ;)

nice one, though: thank you mate. i'm leaving it set to UK now we get chat support, mind. hurrah for "deleted items".

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 4 June 2006 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Is FF having other language type probs? Ive had it occasional render even an ILX page in something wierd like unicode instead of western, so I end up with diamonds all over the place. No idea why it does that (its easily fixable tho)

Havent noticed blobs all over gmail but I have seen the bidi cursor a few times. Again, at random.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 4 June 2006 23:35 (twenty years ago)

Argh. It won't let me click on (and therefore) read my messages. I can do chat just fine, I can search within my inbox just fine, but actually clicking on e-mails DOES NOT WORK. So annoying.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 June 2006 17:18 (twenty years ago)

i haven't been getting messages! so irritating. this hasn't happened since the early days.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 8 June 2006 17:29 (twenty years ago)

look in spam folder?

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Thursday, 8 June 2006 18:18 (twenty years ago)

Grr. It lets me read messages, but not send replies. Anyone else?

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

It's been arsing up intermittently for me recently, not loading, not letting me send emails. So, yes, then, someone else.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Skipping 17 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

IMAP is acting weird, yeah. Connects fine to begin with, but after about 10-15 minutes I start getting repeated messages telling me IMAP isn't available for my account. Then outlook crashes. Bah. Been like this for the last 2 or 3 days now, was always fine before that.

It's ok if I just go in through the web interface though.

― JimD, Saturday, 12 January 2008 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

On a long conversation (30-35+ exchanges maybe) I am at some point unable to reply. If I go back to an incoming message from earlier in the conversation I can reply, however.

Anyone else getting this?

― Jesse, Saturday, 12 January 2008 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

no, but i'm getting what jimD's getting. not quite as frequently, and without app crashes (using apple mail), but there's certainly IMAP weirdness going on.

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 12 January 2008 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

I can get it fine through Outlook but going through the web interface over the last few days, I get that 'this is taking too long to load' screen - you can get the html version but that's rubbish and for me doesn't even have a scroll bar! This was happening all week but think it got better yesterday.

― Not the real Village People, Saturday, 12 January 2008 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

via the web interface, i got a few "permission denied" javascript errors this morning. need to bust open an http debug proxy to see if it's just an ajax issue with their code. hopefully it's not some kind of xss attack.
m.

― msp, Saturday, 12 January 2008 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

has anyone else been having gchat problems?? it keeps disappearing and was doing this yesterday as well :(

― bell_labs, Saturday, 12 January 2008 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

Yep, I've been having that too.

― JimD, Saturday, 12 January 2008 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

gmail out to lunch

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 13 January 2008 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

Their cutesy error messages start to seem really rude when NOTHING WORKS. "Oopsie! We're having problems with our virus checker! Our bad!" STOP LYING

― nabisco, Sunday, 13 January 2008 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

For me, it goes after "Loading" to http://mail.google.com/mail/# in the menubar, then nothing happens for ages.

Damn it!

― Mark G, Sunday, 13 January 2008 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

Well, I got the mail to show this morning, but ARGH is it slow! (ans:yes)

And it's now back to showing a blank screen 9 times out of 10.

― Mark G, Monday, 14 January 2008 10:55 (eighteen years ago)

working aight for me

― J0rdan S., Monday, 14 January 2008 11:01 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

you've all been e-mailing tech support, ye? mine's basically fine apart from intermittent IMAP hiccups.

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 14 January 2008 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

nothing been wrong with mine

― Ste, Monday, 14 January 2008 11:23 (eighteen years ago)

(sometimes i just love my grammar)

― Ste, Monday, 14 January 2008 11:24 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

you've all been e-mailing tech support, ye? mine's basically fine apart from intermittent IMAP hiccups.

-- grimly fiendish, Monday, 14 January 2008 11:06 (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I'd like to but I CAN'T GET INTO MY GMAIL ACCOUNT!

ahem. Could somebody furnish me with the details, thanks?

― Mark G, Monday, 14 January 2008 11:27 (eighteen years ago)

hahahahaha. in fairness, mail.google.com/support should work fine without you needing to be logged in to your account.

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 14 January 2008 11:31 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, went there, checked through the antivirus option, etc, at the end the automated webpage thing suggested clearing cache, and now it's OK again.

― Mark G, Monday, 14 January 2008 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

.. so, thanks for that!

― Mark G, Monday, 14 January 2008 11:45 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

okay hello WHERE did my AIM go?

all of a fucking sudden i can't sign into AIM at work. WHAT

THE

FUCK

― Surmounter, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

this is not funny

― Surmounter, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

Wait, how did you hear us laughing over the internet?

― libcrypt, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

okay i had to download FIREFOX and THEn the stupid chat worked in explorer. i mean what is that

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 00:14 (eighteen years ago)

so, yeah, IS gmail fucking up for anyone else?

for about the last three hours I can log in, but it takes forever, but I can't seem to send an e-mail or save a draft without it locking up and spinning forever

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 02:13 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

what the fuck is going on right now (or is it just me)?

― John Justen, Monday, 28 April 2008 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

I've been having massive problems with google in firefox, including gmail, where firefox would hang for minutes at a time.

Just upgraded to the Firefox 3 beta which seems to have eliminated the problem.

― Bob Six, Monday, 28 April 2008 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

what the fuck is going on right now (or is it just me)?

keep getting the "problems with your account try again later" message.

― stet, Friday, 23 May 2008 00:23 (eighteen years ago)

mines fine

― Surmounter, Friday, 23 May 2008 00:24 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Why does Gmail sometimes (randomly, it seems) go "you're seeing the basic html version" so I have to click the "use standard version" link to get the view I usually get automatically?

― StanM, Thursday, 19 June 2008 21:37 (seventeen years ago)

not sure, usually has to do with loading a javascript

― akm, Thursday, 19 June 2008 22:00 (seventeen years ago)

thanks for the tip - I'll have a look at my NoScript icon next time. Maybe gmail uses different domains and my noscript doesn't allow them all, haven't paid attention at it when this happened.

― StanM, Thursday, 19 June 2008 22:05 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

is anyone having trouble accessing it with POP? or is it just prague internet being funny

― s1ocki, Friday, 11 July 2008 23:00 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

STOP IT

― jergins, Monday, 11 August 2008 21:58 (seventeen years ago)

Huh, mine isn't working right now, either.

― jaymc, Monday, 11 August 2008 21:58 (seventeen years ago)

It's not just my account then. :(

― Pashmina, Monday, 11 August 2008 22:15 (seventeen years ago)

― Jordan, Monday, 11 August 2008 22:15 (seventeen years ago)

ok now

― Ste, Monday, 11 August 2008 22:17 (seventeen years ago)

When gmail goes down, do messages you should have received get bounced?

― James Mitchell, Monday, 11 August 2008 22:24 (seventeen years ago)

my whole office right now is out.

― forksclovetofu, Monday, 11 August 2008 22:31 (seventeen years ago)

BAH

― admrl, Monday, 11 August 2008 22:32 (seventeen years ago)

what we need is more threads about this.

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 11 August 2008 22:50 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

i think i broke it with my 76 meg attachment.

― ledge, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 14:09 (seventeen years ago)

i blame you.

― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 28 August 2008 18:09 (seventeen years ago)

incidentally, we use gmail as our WORK EMAIL SERVER, so when it goes out the whole office collectively shrugs and goes to lunch.

― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 28 August 2008 18:10 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

a bunch of my filters have stopped working wtf

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:00 (fifteen years ago)

is this the complaint department

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:01 (fifteen years ago)

how may i direct ur post

― am0n, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 18:22 (fifteen years ago)

to steve jobs i guess

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 19:48 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

so. "suspicious activity"

just had to verify my account by sms, still kind of worried that it was a scam? (i change my password regularly, there were no unusual ips in my access history, etc) But it might be the result of the Gawker account thing, perhaps - gmail making people change their passwords on the offchance they've been used elsewhere...?

twitter also wouldn't let me on today, had to change the pwd on that.

― crushing the frantic penguins (c sharp major), Monday, 13 December 2010 16:33 (fifteen years ago)

(nb i use sophos at home and work so it'd be a real pisser if it was virus/poor-internet-safety related)

― crushing the frantic penguins (c sharp major), Monday, 13 December 2010 16:36 (fifteen years ago)

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