Terrible Timing: Google Reliability Team Launches Reddit Q&A Just as Gmail Goes Down

Advised to try turning it off and back on

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In a truly painful moment of unfortunate coincidence, Google's Site Reliability Engineering Team launched a Reddit AMA ("Ask Me Anything") this afternoon, just as Gmail went offline for users around the world.

Four of Google's senior site reliability engineers were preparing to answer questions when the AMA was announced at 2 p.m. Eastern today, with the goal of starting officially at 3 p.m. At almost the exact same moment as the AMA announcement, Gmail and Google+ users began losing access to the services.

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