[FIXED] Google Calendar Experiences Widespread Outages

Over the lat 72 hours we've heard from an increasing number of users who are unable to access Google Calendar either via the web or using Spanning Sync. The problem isn't limited to Spanning Sync users—many if not all Google Calendar users are affected.

This morning many more users are reporting the issue on the Google Calendar Troubleshooting Group.

There's no word yet from Google as to what the problem could be or when we should expect a fix. We'll post an update here as soon as we learn more.

Update: Google has acknowledged the problem and is working on a fix. (16:32 GMT)

Update 2: We're getting reports from some users that their calendars are now accessible, but Google has again acknowledged that "a subset of users may have difficulty accessing Google Calendar at this time", and is still working on a fix. (20:51 GMT)

Update 3: Google reports that the problem has been fixed. (00:34 GMT)

Comments

[davidu]

Please make the failure pop-up go away and have it silently fail or just tell me once. Having that pop-up is more annoying than Google calendar not working...

[voidstar]

Please get rid of the modal dialog box that pops up every time a sync fails.

It ruins any attempt to continue working while the servers are down. It also leaves the impression that nothing is going to happen until you press OK, which may or may not be true, but which I certainly hope is NOT true, as a failure shouldn't result in me having to click away a dialog box in order to resume. I would hate to leave my computer running over the weekend while away and not have my schedule updated because of this dialog.