Today, my real name and the location that I had had in Google+ is appearing as my Google Talk name and status rather than the old nick/status that I had set.
edit: It was a change to talk, not sure what it was that failed yet.
edit 2: Google Talk has been restored for some users and should be resolved for all in near future.
I mean that in the "genuine curiosity" sense, not the usual snarky xkcd sense. What do you know? Who do you know? Please elaborate.
Have they angered Midas and his mighty golden touch? Did they finally get enough of them down at the same time to where they couldn't bring any of them back up? Circular dependencies are fun that way.
I was on call the day of a cascading failure event some years ago for something not too different than this. They kept trying to blame my service, but it wasn't us. We were actually staying up despite the extra load being created by all of the thrashing. It turned out to be something else entirely.
Starting from 'investigating reports Google Talk down' and following right through till service is restored with hourly updates is something that Amazon (and others) could learn from.
https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/support/service-dashboard...
If I send a message through XMPP, it appears in the chat window in GMail, so there's at least some actual connectivity happening. Messages aren't getting through or appearing in my logs though.
Edit: Messages are appearing in logs. My clients don't agree on who is online, though.
Edit: And I can access it again (16:34)
I'll have days where it's stable, and I'll have days where it just disconnects/reconnects 10 ties an hour (on different networks that day).
