MetaChat - Time to ask: Has Gmail become teh sux0r ?

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10 February 2008

Time to ask: Has Gmail become teh sux0r ? Today I can't even load Gmail except in basic HTML mode. I always have to refresh several times to see my account. Is it my fault? I'm finally chiming in with what many others here have been asking. DO YOU HEAR US, GOOFLE? WE WERE YOUR FIRST ORIGINAL GMAIL BETA USERS. Ghaaaah.

post by: shane at: 16:18 | 17 comments

I just found out that someone never got a gmail email that I sent the other day. Argh!

posted by amro 10 February | 16:37

I use Thunderbird to connect to GMail with POP (IMAP is also available), and have never had any problems. Maybe people who regularly have problems with GMail would be better off using it this way?

posted by matthewr 10 February | 16:54

Same problem here! AAAAAAAAAARRRRRGH!

posted by dabitch 10 February | 16:55

Never had any problems, but then I'm on the Google Apps version which doesn't share bandwidth with the great unwashed.

posted by cillit bang 10 February | 17:28

Odd. I haven't had any trouble with it at all.

posted by bunnyfire 10 February | 17:29

I have this kind of problems all the time. I am in Chile, though, so it might be the sucky connection we have to the rest of the world.

posted by signal 10 February | 17:46

I've never had a problem....sowwy Shane.... :(

posted by iconomy 10 February | 18:26

signal has a bad signal.. ? Ha!

posted by dabitch 10 February | 18:45

I don't have problems with gmail either.

posted by deborah 10 February | 18:48

My GMail was miserable for about two weeks last month, but has performed well for a bit of awhile now.

It definitely seems to go through...phases.

posted by Miko 10 February | 19:15

I had that problem, then worked out that I had my User Agent settings switched to IE 7 (it's a Firefox addon). Changed that back, and tadaaaa.

posted by divabat 10 February | 20:24

I'm looking for that, divabat, but haven't found it in Settings yet.

Where are all the folks who have been complaining about Gmail at least once-a-month around here?

posted by shane 10 February | 21:15

I'm like right here, mixing drinks. sheesh, they're coming folks, it takes time to make a good cosmo *shakeshakesahke*

posted by dabitch 10 February | 21:35

i could use a good cosmo

posted by shane 10 February | 21:39

Mine has been better overall, lately. Hopefully they're going to work through this.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 10 February | 22:12

I'm like right here, mixing drinks. sheesh, they're coming folks, it takes time to make a good cosmo *shakeshakesahke*
posted by dabitch 10 February | 21:35

i could use a good cosmo
posted by shane 10 February | 21:39

Mine has been better overall, lately. Hopefully they're going to work through this.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 10 February | 22:12

A better cosmo is a great thing, but are you saying you're a better bartender than dabitch?
;-)

posted by shane 10 February | 22:30

GMail has been timing out and telling me it couldn't send messages when it had, in reality, already sent multiple copies.

posted by Eideteker 11 February | 08:56

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