Gmail has been down for me for the last couple of hours, out here in India. Anyone else facing this downtime too? I’m getting the following message:
Temporary Error (502)
We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is currently experiencing errors. You won’t be able to log in while these errors last, but don’t worry, your account data and messages are safe. Our engineers are working to resolve this issue.
Please try logging in to your account again in a few minutes.
I wouldn’t really call more than 2 hours “temporary”. Someone missed their SLA targets!
UPDATE 1: Its weird, I get the following error now (choosing the HTML view does open up my inbox… its broken though since I have no vertical scrollbars?!?):
Loading…
This seems to be taking longer than usual.
If you are using a slow Internet connection, you can wait a bit longer for this page to finish loading, or just use basic HTML view for now.
If you are using your normal Internet connection and you usually get past this loading step without any problems, please refresh this page in your browser. If you continue to have trouble loading your account, please visit the help center for troubleshooting information.
UPDATE 2: Its finally up after a 4-5 hour outage!
UPDATE 3: Its been 5 days since I wrote this post. But as can be seen from the comments below (and the traffic I am getting to this post), people are still facing this issue with their gmail accounts (I am not). This seems to be a user specific access issue, rather than a mass outage. It might be that gmail is performing some system/software upgrades. Being patient is the only way out! I did not lose any of my emails/data, so don’t see a need to be concerned as of now.