silentHQ
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- Dec 25, 2008
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NOTE: I've already put in a support ticket regarding the following issue. That was before I did some testing on my own which seems to have at least temporarily resolved the issue.
About 9-10 hours ago, I stopped receiving BHW email notifications in my Gmail account.
When I finally visited here again about 3 hours afterwards (6 hours ago), at the top of each page I then saw the following message:
"Attempts to send emails to ********@gmail.com have failed. Please update your email"
My Gmail account is fine (now) as I've received emails from other accounts and I've successfully sent test messages both to and from that address.
Also, there was the following message at the bottom of each forum page as I was no longer able to make any new posts or replies anywhere on the forum:
"You have insufficient privileges to reply here."
I did some digging and found that despite Google's claim to have fixed their worldwide outage from 20 hours ago that we all already know about, there are people (at least within the past 5-6 hours) still experiencing emails bouncing back from their Gmail accounts or even receiving messages that their email accounts no longer exist:
https://downdetector.com/status/gmail/
https://downdetector.com/status/gmail/#comment-5189568666
https://downdetector.com/status/gmail/#comment-5189536428
https://downdetector.com/status/gmail/#comment-5189535348
https://downdetector.com/status/gmail/#comment-5189526567
I went ahead and created a Protonmail email account which has now allowed me to login to BHW. I've also started receiving email alerts again.
I view this as only being a temporary solution as I'd like to eventually switch back to using my Gmail account. However, I'm concerned that I'll have the same issue again with using my Gmail account here if Google is still experiencing unresolved or unofficially acknowledged technical issues.
I thought I'd notify the staff here in case there are other members who are experiencing the same thing without fully understanding what could be going on.
I've noticed a few threads that are normally quite active haven't had any new posts in several hours, and that some members who are normally extremely active haven't been shown as "active" in several hours as well. I'm wondering if they've been affected in the same way, although I could be wrong as I have no proof of this.
About 9-10 hours ago, I stopped receiving BHW email notifications in my Gmail account.
When I finally visited here again about 3 hours afterwards (6 hours ago), at the top of each page I then saw the following message:
"Attempts to send emails to ********@gmail.com have failed. Please update your email"
My Gmail account is fine (now) as I've received emails from other accounts and I've successfully sent test messages both to and from that address.
Also, there was the following message at the bottom of each forum page as I was no longer able to make any new posts or replies anywhere on the forum:
"You have insufficient privileges to reply here."
I did some digging and found that despite Google's claim to have fixed their worldwide outage from 20 hours ago that we all already know about, there are people (at least within the past 5-6 hours) still experiencing emails bouncing back from their Gmail accounts or even receiving messages that their email accounts no longer exist:
https://downdetector.com/status/gmail/
https://downdetector.com/status/gmail/#comment-5189568666
https://downdetector.com/status/gmail/#comment-5189536428
https://downdetector.com/status/gmail/#comment-5189535348
https://downdetector.com/status/gmail/#comment-5189526567
I went ahead and created a Protonmail email account which has now allowed me to login to BHW. I've also started receiving email alerts again.
I view this as only being a temporary solution as I'd like to eventually switch back to using my Gmail account. However, I'm concerned that I'll have the same issue again with using my Gmail account here if Google is still experiencing unresolved or unofficially acknowledged technical issues.
I thought I'd notify the staff here in case there are other members who are experiencing the same thing without fully understanding what could be going on.
I've noticed a few threads that are normally quite active haven't had any new posts in several hours, and that some members who are normally extremely active haven't been shown as "active" in several hours as well. I'm wondering if they've been affected in the same way, although I could be wrong as I have no proof of this.
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