Comments on: GrandCentral goes dead

By: BigWalt

BigWalt — Mon, 26 May 2008 04:26:53 +0000

Can someone send me an invite (waltalva@gmail.com). I thought invites were closed but i keep on reading about some folks signing up recently.

By: Kevad

Kevad — Wed, 21 May 2008 05:42:43 +0000

Its down again tonight, May 20th, 2008 here in Southern California. My theory is that it is related to American Idol voting. Either cheaters trying to vote many times with one call, so it calls forward to 3 or 5 or whatever and it crashed their website or ATT/Google took it down. Josh is indicating that there is web info. about problems with their domain expiring. I suppose it could be propigating to a new domain and it takes time to do so?

By: LH 2008

LH 2008 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:54:23 +0000

Everything seems beta with them. You do get what you pay for in most instances. their concept is good, and their are reliable co’s out there that offer it and it’s affordable (and reliable). check out phonefusion one or phone.com or ringcentral all good companies

By: Phreqd

Phreqd — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:37:21 +0000

Listen you begging dinks. There are no invites possible from people who have the service. They DISABLED it. Stop looking pathetic. You WON’T get one because it CAN’T be done anymore. Geeze.

By: ReL

ReL — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:07:38 +0000

Maybe they just did it to create a media hype. I just signed up for an account.

By: C DM

C DM — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:21:42 +0000

Honestly, aside from a much better and more truthful (rather than simply sensationalistic) article title, the update about there not being an explanation from GrandCentral/Google also seems a bit odd since there is a GrandCentral Blog where and update about it all was made at http://blog.grandcentral.com/?p=144.

By: TrueDis

TrueDis — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:46:01 +0000

Grand Central *Down* would’ve been a more appropriate title. This made it sound like Google had shut it down for good…

By: james

james — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:35:09 +0000

@zac,

You were kind of sounding like an angry Galvatron for a second. LOL.

By: Tamer8

Tamer8 — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:11:10 +0000

Hi,
Can someone send me an invite to Grand Central Beta.
my email is tamer8@gmail.com

By: C DM

C DM — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:16:31 +0000

By the way, GrandCentral/Google admitted that the ball was dropped by them to one degree or another: http://blog.grandcentral.com/?p=144.

By: C DM

C DM — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:15:01 +0000

@ zac: The intelligence is just spewing out of that comment.

By: rosegold

rosegold — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:03:27 +0000

i want an invite not having to give my real digits to people sounds like treat!

dominican.king@gmail.com make it happen

By: zac

zac — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:59:44 +0000

Hey that’s a great idea! Let’s all bitch about it when something we did to be lazy makes us have to do some fucking work! That’s a good thing!

Yeah it is a fucking BETA and if gmail stopped working I’d be ok because I have more than one email address.

Let’s see…I want to pretend to be super spy so I take a beta service and do important business operation with it….I guess I should take some beta or pre release versions of software and run them on my servers too and then when a bug comes up I can blame someone besides my idiot self because I’m too god damn stupid to be held accountable for my own actions!

Yeah google sure is causing a lot of evil here let’s attack them a little harder for a bit and then oh I know let’s praise apple because I’m sure if they had a beta out it would be perfect…go ahead BGR you know you wana say something about that!

Next I guess its time to blame microsoft because I’m sure its somehow their fault too.

Face it you stupid fucks BETA = use at your own risk and instead of bitching like little annoying fucks you are send a very kind email to google and tell them what’s happening because that’s what beta is for instead of bashing google holy shit maybe they don’t know what went wrong or maybe its none of your fucking business so stop complaining and shut the fuck up.

By: Michael Faul

Michael Faul — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:17:27 +0000

Well let me throw my hat in too. Can somebody send me an invite just in case I don’t get one in 2 days? Thanks. lamichealfu7@gmail.com

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:51:24 +0000

i signed up for it a couple of weeks ago and still no email or invite from GC.

By: Don

Don — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:45:56 +0000

Invites are closed, and have been for some time now. You’ll have to try and reserve a number and wait.

By: keymaker

keymaker — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:26:52 +0000

just sign up for it & you will get a invite from them within 2 days and they will also let you invite up to 7 more of your friends. am loving it and its free, i have had no problems with it in the current days so i really don’t know what all this is about

By: Al

Al — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:02:14 +0000

Ok here’s my fishing for an invite too…
alsamuelson – gmail.com

Thanks

By: weave

weave — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:18:00 +0000

Wow — from the RSS headline I thought it was dead for like — as in Google closed it down. Now that would have really sucked.

By: xcuzememizz

xcuzememizz — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:41:02 +0000

Can someone send me a request to join grand central? Being that’s its beta I have to have an invite. Thanx in advane. My email is devontejcarr1@gmail.com

By: Al

Al — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:20:56 +0000

Not working for me. Oh wait, I don’t have an invite.
Any extras out there?

By: Don B.

Don B. — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:28:38 +0000

Something has been happening for the last couple of months. Grandcentral won’t let you play old messages a couple of month ago. Maybe google it get it ready for something.

By: Tuju

Tuju — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:14:27 +0000

I think for any of us that use the service, the surprise of it going down was more of a shock than anything. I have used the service since before it was bought by Google and it has been nothing but reliable. At least it went down on a Sunday for us people who use it for business.

By: wesrubix

wesrubix — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:53:13 +0000

vehemently agreed. Beta is beta.

By: TJ

TJ — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:49:34 +0000

Same Here

By: MrKyoo

MrKyoo — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:27:00 +0000

GrandCentral is back up and running for me.

By: C DM

C DM — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:45:32 +0000

Gmail is also a beta (and has been for years), so if it suddenly went down, after basically letting so many people to switch and use it and basically depend on it, would that be OK? Technically speaking it sounds like it should, since it’s a beta after all, but realistically speaking, there would be a huge outcry about it if it happened, and it certainly would cost Google something in some shape or form, be it in users that leave, or don’t join, or something else. Services like this, beta or not, are a little bit more important than others. The least they could do is provide some sort of a communication about what’s going on, even if it’s simple and to the point. Sorry, the “do no evil” part just doesn’t seem to fly that well when stuff like this happens without even being upfront about it, let alone actually addressing it.

By: John

John — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:39:04 +0000

I agree with sleepy, when signing up for a beta you are fully aware that problems like this may, and will occur. No biggie

By: Sleepy

Sleepy — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:32:54 +0000

Come on people. It’s beta. You can’t expect beta to work perfectly regardless of what you use it for. That’s why it’s beta and not an actual release