Google Docs are offline

[gmemstr]

Don't seem to be able to load it at all.

Edit: Seems it's able to load the main page (docs.google.com) but no documents (yet).

Edit 2: Seems to be super sporadic whether it loads or not, no word from Google yet.

Edit 3: Docs seem to be able to load very slowly, so service is returning to normal. Unable to print/download docs at this time.

Edit 4: Should mention I'm in NA, Aus seems to be most affected at the moment according to comments.

Edit 5 (1:26PM PST): Will start adding timestamps to edits as things progress. Seems it has gone completely offline in NA again.

Edit 6 (1:29PM PST): Google Docs Twitter has tweeted they are looking into the issue https://twitter.com/googledocs/status/930910008941756416

Edit 7 (1:33PM PST): Google has added the incident to their status page https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=5&iid=256bb31e589f5037731d2bdc83b66bb8, report will be updated at 2:30PM according to them.

[bugmen0t]

This is your regular reminder that all your business relies on a service that may have outages.

Feel free to turn your individual crank towards further criticism of data silos, walled gardens, single points of failures and lock-in.

[Daviey → bugmen0t]

Has Gdocs had better reliability than the average desktop PC, with MS word?

Has Gdoc's made businesses more productive due to co-working on documents together, rather than emailing around word documents?

lock-in? Why do you feel Gdoc's provides lock-in?

How is it a walled garden?

[dvfjsdhgfv → bugmen0t]

I don't think any criticism or complaining is of any use in such a situation. People and companies that understand the implications already took care to protect themselves against such failures. Those who haven't will learn eventually.

[tlogan]

But their marketing page [1] is telling us that everything is ok...

[1] https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status

[t0mbstone]

Tried to get to a google doc, but it sat there loading, so I got bored and opened hacker news in a new tab. Bam. Question answered.

[smegel]

Yup came here to find this. Can open Drive, but not individual documents. Which is a real pain as there is something in one I need right now. And I have offline installed but no dice...

(Australia)

Edit: I was using it fine at around 7:20AM (AEST) but it was down when I got to work at 8AM.

[suhastech]

I can confirm. It is prompting me to turn on offline sync.

[tiredwired]

not down but, very very very slow to load in San Jose, CA.

[casley]

Really slow in NZ. Intermittently offline. Back up now.

[marak830]

Down for me in Aus

Edit: sporadic actually

[graystevens]

Up for me - UK.

[paulbishop]

sloooooooooooow in Aus

[synicalx → paulbishop]

Well that could just be our lovely NBN, high performance NBN