You Chose the Worst Time to Host a Reddit AMA, Google

As Gmail and other Google services suffered a worldwide outage on Friday afternoon, causing mass hysteria on Twitter, Google's Site Reliability Engineering Team began a Reddit AMA ("Ask Me Anything"). Talk about terrible timing.

The two events could be totally unrelated, especially considering the Google employees on the AMA worked at the unrelated search, storage and infrastructure departments. But Redditors were quick to call out the engineers in the comments, quickly escalating the AMA into a sounding board for Gmail users to complain, troll and ask questions about fixing email. Read more...