MetaChat - What's up with my Gmail?

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13 January 2008

What's up with my Gmail? For the past few weeks, it's been acting really weird.→[More:]It starts to load, and then gets stuck. Sometimes, I can reload it, and it'll go through, but the past few days, nothing works except deleting all my cookies. But I don't want to have to re-login to all my sites everytime I want to check my e-mail. HEEEEELP MEEEEE.

post by: ThePinkSuperhero at: 23:56 | 11 comments

Mine too. Not those symptoms, tho. I've been getting a Error #102 message (or other connection failed messages). One website advised me to use this address for gmail: https://mail.google.com/mail/s/ -- I think it might have helped, but it could be coincidental. YMMV.

posted by AwkwardPause 14 January | 00:11

Mine, too. I've had it stick on loading and fail to load, and then load in HTML view. I've had to log in from addresses I Google up as opposed to my bookmark.

They must be under the hood over there. Glad you said something, it's been driving me nuts.

posted by Miko 14 January | 00:21

Glad it's not just me.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 14 January | 00:34

All sorts of gmail wackiness in the last week, here. It's nuts. (And kinda problematic when the mail I don't get is an OMG SITE ON FIRE alert.)

posted by cortex 14 January | 00:49

One workaround if you're desperate can be to go to the mobile interface:

http://m.gmail.com

posted by TheophileEscargot 14 January | 04:50

I have stopped using the web interface for the most part, and access Gmail primarily through IMAP.

posted by grouse 14 January | 07:10

Chiming in with hicuppy gmail here as well. I go in through https, but still, it's been bumpy.

posted by chewatadistance 14 January | 08:11

Like grouse, I've been happiest going through IMAP. You don't get conversation threading that way (which sucks), but it seems to work more reliably than the web interface.

posted by middleclasstool 14 January | 10:22

No problems here. Well, except for it not deleting all the Twitter updates the first time around, but that's not the same, is it?

posted by deborah 14 January | 14:39

Now my Gmail has started doing this. What the heck?

posted by rhapsodie 14 January | 16:53

Mine has been odd, too. I hit reply and get a pagefull of blank lines, and then e v e r y l e t t e r I t y p e takes as much as a second or two to register. The right column fails to load about 1/4 of the time, too.

(This is exactly the problem I always have with any Google thing but search. It is really neat in one or two ways but gets insufficient maintenance attention.)

posted by stilicho 14 January | 23:06

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