I moved off to Radicale years ago:

https://radicale.org/

I use it with Thunderbird, and DavDroid (now DavX) to handle all my events and contacts (SMS contacts even show up correctly in Hangouts on Android phones)

I realize GCal is rarely ever down, but they do harvest all your data to sell you shit.

Here's a basic Dockerfile for Radicale if you want to try it out:

https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/tree/master/dockerfiles/Radic...

I guess it's time for all the Google engineers to put their LeetCode skills to the test.

Man, June has just flown by. I can't believe it's 404 Error already.

Surprised nothing shows up on https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status for it. What's the point of a status site that doesn't reflect the status?

Over an hour into the outage, still no word at all from Google on the status page apart from "We're investigating"

Just got 4 calls from different departments and two people coming here saying the internet is broken ("Google calendar is broken company wide!").

(Please introduce more meaningful error messages, Google)

Google Calendar being down for nearly an hour settles it. No meetings today. Everyone is free to 'work from home'!

This is the 2nd time a Google product has been down in the last month. What is going on there?

Previous one was only 15 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20077421

What's going on with google lately? First the google cloud outage earlier this month and now this? I wonder if there's some sort of systemic problem they're dealing with

Also I would like to point out an interesting side effect that the #1 result in google for "Google calendar 404" is down with a "Too many requests" error :D

This is especially chaotic for business GSuite users. Wonder if there's an offline/local cache service available for cloud-hosted systems, that would be a good middle-ground between local control and cloud-backed scale.

Writing your own little personal-use web apps can be really nice - not sure how common this is, but I highly recommend it. I did it for tasks, time tracking, invoicing, and personal finances, partly because Google and others kept "upgrading" and screwing up the UI & performance of the tools I was relying on.

Each took about a day to write, and is customized exactly the way I like it; if I need a shortcut key, a weird little feature, etc. I can do it. I'm kind of an optimization / performance nut too, so they all run uber-fast, no perceptible delay from click to page / screen loaded (Sqlite is great for these kinds of things). Data is totally private and under your control. It's really nice.

However, calendar was complicated enough that I just use Google's. Might be time to rethink..

Google Meeting dial-ins aren't working for this reason, I suppose. Had a meeting this morning and no one could dial in or use Hangouts.

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For both the free and paid plans. I look forward to my tens of cents refund!

Well I get that shit happens, but what is strange about these recent google incidents is actual downtime. 5 hours for google cloud, and almost 1 hour already for calendar.

I thought google can do better.

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Intermittent 404/200 in Italy.

Intermittent 404s and 500s in NYC.

I don't use Calendar but was able to spam F5 and after a few times, you seem to get in.

About 1 in 15 times I'm managing to load it at the moment.

Looks like some instances are live; but capacity is evidently a fraction of what it should be.

I assume the mobile app is still working for people? (Mine is)

It first exhibited a lot of blank calendar pages for the end of 2019 onward, though June and July 2019 were still there. Then complete 404.

Yep, both consumer and Gsuite calendars are down.

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Google Calendar down in Malta too. Same 404.

That explains why I couldn't book my client's appointment. API is throwing "503 Backend Error."

Non-technical user here: why does Google make me use Captcha if it doesn't work? Error 503, etc. afterwards.

404 in the UK.

Seems like the whole backend is down as meet.google.com isn't showing scheduled meetings either

Also not available in Germany.

YEAH BABY 404's DAY OFF

404's 503's aside, should we speculate as to what the issue is?

Almost 2 hours down. What a way to discontinue another product, Google!

Thought something was wrong with Fantastical. It was Google then.

First months after July disappeared, then it went 404 in NY area.

When is Google calendar expected to become available again?

Came here to confirm it's not just me! Still down.

Anyone notice that they do not use recaptcha for this page? Apparently old fashioned skewed text works fine to protect google's own services from bots!

I hope it’s not the work of bughunters

Rough past couple of weeks for Google.

404 in Germany

Looks like it's back up for me

404s here in Maine at 11:02a.

Down in the bay area as well

404 Spain

404 from India as well.

404 in Hungary aswell

404 in Argentina too

404 in Canada too.

404 in Poland too.

404 in Brazil too

404 in India too

When does Google expect the calendar to become available?

Microsoft Outlook for Android shows zero appointments, at least once a week, and nobody posts about it. Shouldn't broken features make headlines regardless of whether the root cause occurs on the client or the server?

Feminism?

Why no server backup best practices? There should be 2ndary and tertiary servers ready instantly.

Instagram is down too, coincidence? (https://downdetector.com/status/instagram)

OP: Might be worth removing the link URL from this post so that we don't hammer their servers while they're trying to fix it for us.