AT&T seems down in Eastern TN too. All phones in SOS mode.

Hey neighbor! SOS mode here in north AL too.

Seems pretty widespread. Anyone know what caused it?

One story I saw pinned it on high solar activity.

I like this simple implementation.

I don't like the fact that it can't be self-hosted.

They will go under sooner or later and will take all blogs with them.

If you read in the links, users are reporting more than six months. It sounds like entire accounts have been wiped.

I think the "six months" is coming from the original report but looks like it could be longer.

The links you posted say it was local files that had not been synced to Google Drive, so it's however long people were creating files that weren't synced to the cloud without the user noticing.

Some users are saying years but could it really be that long?

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/14286582?sjid=464734...

Great, then submit a link to the other reports, not a blog post that says 6 months and doesn't expand on that.

Does anyone have any technical insights as to what happened here? Was it related to Google's new account deletion policy or something totally separate?

You'll never get an answer to this because answer == admission.

If you want a guess, it probably was related to pruning old accounts/old files.

Yeah, the timing is suspicious. Wonder if someone just fat-fingered a command.

I wonder if there is any correlation to the files deleted and the user accounts that were pruned--basically the file was deleted because you shared it with a user account that was pruned

Volafile is interesting. First I’ve heard of it

Mediafire, while it works, is a terrible user experience for someone receiving the file, IMHO.

Thanks! :-)

Good suggestion. Thanks!

Thanks! In regards to API quotas, the rate limiting happens on a per-user basis so we manage to stay away from the limits for most users. That being said, I did build the system with a retry mechanism with delays so in case something does hit a limit, it shouldn't be lost.