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0 pointskabes5y ago0 comments

When I tried to login it said: 'this account does not exist'. So my first thought was some algorithm made a mistake and my account got deleted for no reason.

I already imagined the only solution now was to write a medium post and hope it gets some traction on hackernews and google support steps in. Thinking to myself I was an idiot for knowing all this and still thinking it wouldn't happen to me.

And even though it turns out to be an outage, it gave me a bad enough feeling to start using a domain name I own for my email.

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burnthrow5y ago· 2 in thread

Those hosting with their own domains on Google mail had an identical experience, if it makes you feel differently.

archi425y ago

The advantage of a custom domain name is: As long as you can update DNS records, you can have your mail easily hosted elsewhere.

Obviously not relevant for this kind of outage, but in the scenario outlined by GP - Google randomly kills you off, and there is nothing you can do - this is at least an emergency strategy.

kabesOP5y ago

Yep, but losing access to my emails isn't that big of a deal, losing access to my email address is much worse. Especially since it's also my login on a lot of other services.

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