Gmail Vowel Fail!

Kaustubh Katdare

Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Oct 26, 2024
Google seriously has began failing at April Fool's Jokes. They've got this:

At 6:01 am Pacific Time, during routine maintenance at one of our datacenters, the frontend web servers in that particular datacenter started failing to render the letter 'a' for a subset of users. As error rates escalated, the strain spread to other datacenters. We worked quickly to avoid a cascading failure of the entire alphabet by implementing a stopgap solution that limited the damage to the letters 'a,' 'e,' 'i,' 'o,' and 'u.' As a result, we're experiencing Gmail’s first temporary vowel outage. (We’re still investigating whether the letter 'y' is impacted and will post an update here shortly.)
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  • Ashraf HZ

    Ashraf HZ

    @Ash • Apr 1, 2010

    Wait, this happened to the emails within Gmail as well? That would be unforgivable 😛
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  • Kaustubh Katdare

    Kaustubh Katdare

    @thebigk • Apr 1, 2010

    No, it was only on the Gmail login page. I guess the Google Apps pages were not affected.
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  • lal

    lal

    @lal-R60Xjx • Apr 1, 2010

    Hmm. Thank God, the mails are not affected!
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