Gmail Outage Update (New Contact Feature?)

So I got mine back from the outage pretty quick this afternoon, less than an hour of outage, but this was a huge outage.

Google did a pretty good job of responding. I’m still using it.

This quote has me intrigued, though:

The issue was caused by a temporary outage in our contacts system that was preventing Gmail from loading properly. Everything should be back to normal by the time you read this.

Maybe they’re upgrading the contacts feature to be more robust? I sure hope so!