# What's wrong with Gmail? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 27, 2005, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-gmail/292150 "2005-02-27T16:36:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-gmail/292150/1 "2005-02-27T16:36:14Z")
My Gmail account seems to have decided not to work today. Anyone know anything about this? Is it a widespread problem, or does it just hate me? ---
**Author:** ![Lockz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Lockz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockz)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-gmail/292150/2 "2005-02-27T16:43:19Z")
Nope, I’ve been having that problem as well, for the last hour or two. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-gmail/292150/3 "2005-02-27T16:44:05Z")
I had that problem but after hitting refresh a couple of times it came up. ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-gmail/292150/4 "2005-02-27T16:45:41Z")
That’s a relief. I was afraid it was just me- computers seem to do awful things in my presence. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-gmail/292150/5 "2005-02-27T16:55:55Z")
Hah, and to think that the first place that I came after my Gmail didn’t work was here. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Caffeine.addict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@Caffeine.addict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caffeine.addict)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-gmail/292150/6 "2005-02-27T17:09:03Z")
Just tied to check mine and I got and error message. I can’t even get to the log-in page. ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-gmail/292150/7 "2005-02-27T17:10:07Z")
> [@chaoticdonkey](#): > > Hah, and to think that the first place that I came after my Gmail didn’t work was here. 😛 Me too. I love the 'Dope. ---
**Author:** ![Lockz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Lockz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockz)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-gmail/292150/8 "2005-02-27T17:10:15Z")
I’ve tried reloading a couple times and it still doesn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![Lockz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Lockz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockz)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-gmail/292150/9 "2005-02-27T17:16:20Z")
And just a few minutes later, it works. Someone, somewhere, is seeing what I’m typing and fixing it for me. What does it mean?? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-gmail/292150/10 "2005-02-27T18:38:32Z")
Works fine for me now, at about 1.55pm EST. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-gmail/292150/11 "2005-02-27T19:03:04Z")
I’ve been having sporadic problems for the past day or two. It usually starts working again after a few minutes. I don’t know what it means, except that when they said it’s still in beta, they really meant it. ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-gmail/292150/12 "2005-02-27T19:06:46Z")
It’s working at the moment, although I don’t know how long that will last…you know, I switched to Gmail because hotmail was being problematic. And now Gmail is being problematic. I just can’t win. ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-gmail/292150/13 "2005-02-27T19:30:35Z")
> [@](#): > > I switched to Gmail because hotmail was being problematic. That probably wasn’t a good reason to switch. Gmail is still in beta and problems are to be expected.