Update 2:29 EST: Google is broken! WTF is going on? It's being really slow for most people, and for others, it's not letting them in at all. I think I speak for everyone in the working world right now when I say either break or don't break. Pick a lane, GMail.

Update 2:25 EST: We still haven't been given a reason for why GMail stopped working for roughly twenty-five minutes, but for the time being, the mail service is behaving like nothing weird and shady happened at all. Sorry. That means we all need to head back to work and stop running around in the street like school children on a snow day. The world can continue. We can all get back to talking about movies. Don't even think about GChatting though. That shit is still on the fritz.

Original Story:Gmail is down right now. This is not a drill. Gmail is down, and it has been since approximately 2:00 PM EST. You are not the only one.

You know how Google never breaks? How it’s the shining technological light at the end of the tunnel that never, ever lets us down and always functions properly? Well, apparently even the best have their bad days. The mail service is currently down, and everyone on Twitter is collectively freaking out but also secretly wondering whether this means the weekend is going to start early.

As this just happened in the last ten minutes, there are currently no details as to why the service is down, but when Gmail gets fixed or the company releases a statement explaining what the fuck happened, we’ll be sure to bring you the update. Until then, there’s no point in working; so, figure out something fun to do.

Update: Many users are now reporting that Gmail service at least is back, though recurring outages and slowness are also being reported. At this stage it appears that some have service restored while others remain completely unable to connect.

Gmail is currently experiencing what appears to be a widespread outage, with reports coming in from Europe, the U.S., Canada, India and beyond that Google’s email service is down. We’re still seeing a green light (update: now showing red as of around 2:20 ET) on the App Status dashboard, but are trying to find out more about the problem.

The error being seen by most users at the moment is a (500) code problem, which pretty much just indicates that it’s a temporary problem and doesn’t give a clue as to cause. Judging by the response on Twitter, however, the problem is currently affecting a huge number of users. Google+ is also down, although you’d be forgiven for not having noticed that sooner.

The Google+ outage also affects YouTube comments under the new system, which means those aren’t loading at all on videos, as well as Hangouts across the web and mobile. Users attempting to access Gmail via external clients using either POP or IMAP protocols also aren’t able to get through to their inboxes. Repeated calls to Google’s press line failed to go through, and we’ve emailed their press account for more info but there’s a very good reason to suspect they might not be reading that (see entire article above).

As an added bonus, note that Google’s Site Reliability Engineering team, which makes sure Google services stay up, was doing an AMA on Reddit exactly when this happened. That’ll show you to take a breather guys.

Google calls this a “disruption” in its Gmail service according to the Apps Status Dashboard, and promises “more information shortly.”