I love Gmail, it’s where ever I have Internet access. I can use pop to download the mail (do this at home). The online search is fantastic. And I have been singing its praise when ever possible.
But, the last few weeks, it has been behaving like a dog.
- Searches fail (timing out)
- Sending emails failing. This is the most annoying, as you don’t know if it’s been sent or not
- Changing Label views failing
This has been happening from both work and home. So I don’t think of it as the IS boys playing games here at work. But it also hasn’t been just a one off things. Something has changed, and the service is now intermittent.
I now have doubt I’ll get my mail when I want it. That I’ll be able to send when I want. It took a few weeks, but I now have changed my mind set from, are they having problems today? to will it work today?, and it feels like are huge change to me. Before Google knew how to do large scale systems, and just have them work. Now my trust is broken, and maybe they are just luck cowboys like the rest of the world. I’m not sure how long of good service will it take for me to sing there praise again, or will I forever remember the intermittence of ‘07