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• Errors (37%)
• Website Down (35%)
• Sign in (28%)

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City	Problem Type	Report Time
Arcachon	Website Down	9 hours ago
Auray	Errors	11 hours ago
Besançon	Website Down	1 day ago
Paris	Errors	1 day ago
Lavelanet	Website Down	1 day ago
Aurillac	Errors	1 day ago

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Gmail Issues Reports

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  Jay Petty (@JPetty2498) reported 45 seconds ago

  @Heartofgold4422 Doing so. Problem I have is x is in a Gmail accountant for some reason I cannot get to it on the tablet. So I’m gonna change it when x will let me try and mess with the account again. I’m in a time penalty atm

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  nwobinonso (@nwobinonso) reported 4 minutes ago

  @sidrachain @sidrachain Hello. My account is locked out because your system cannot deliver OTP codes to Yahoo Mail. Your support website is broken and your support email address does not exist. Please help me manually update my profile to my new Gmail. My username is: [nonybest1]

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  Lawrence M. (@KuyalawVA) reported 6 minutes ago

  Hey @TeamYouTube I am having trouble signing into my Gmail account. Would you be able to assist?

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  Subscribr (@SubscribrAI) reported 6 minutes ago

  Japan is one of the most technologically advanced countries on Earth... So naturally, the fastest growing "ancient Japanese wisdom" channel on YouTube has no Japanese people involved at all 10,200 subscribers. 19 videos. 800,000 views in 60 days. No presenter. No face. No camera. Just stock footage of lawns and driveways, an AI voice, and a channel called "The Japanese Method" teaching Americans how to fix their gardens using techniques that have almost nothing to do with Japan. And the audience does not care, because he sells an ebook and they buy it. A country famous for engineering, robotics, and precision is being repackaged as folk wisdom by a faceless channel selling $30 guidebooks to homeowners in Ohio. And it is outperforming 99% of channels run by actual gardeners. People do not trust cleaning brands anymore. They do not trust product reviews or sponsored ads. The one thing that still cuts through is an authority frame — a phrase like "the Japanese method" or "the Amish way" that implies ancient wisdom the audience has never heard before. Your brain runs the same trust loop whether the wisdom is real or invented. Now the money. A faceless channel this size in a normal niche pulls $400 to $600 a month from ads. A grocery bill. The ebook is the whole business. sells "The Complete Japanese Method guidebook." $30 per copy. At 0.5% conversion on 400,000 monthly views, that is $6,000 a month from the ebook alone. And the channel is scaling. In 90 days that number crosses $15,000 a month. Same views, same videos, 20x the revenue AdSense would produce. Here is the exact playbook. Step 1. Pick the niche on math, not passion. Target 35 to 65 year old homeowners in the US, UK, Canada, Australia. They spend on their homes. They read ebooks. They fall for authoritative sounding traditions. Step 2. Build a brand around an authority frame instead of a face. Japanese method. Amish secret. Nordic tradition. Ancient Roman technique. Any cultural label that implies wisdom the audience has never heard before. The label carries the trust. You never need a presenter. Step 3. Use ONE consistent voice and visual style across every video. Same AI voice. Same thumbnail template. Same intro. Same outro. Recognizable in one clip. This separates a legitimate faceless brand from the AI slop YouTube is wiping out by the thousands. Step 4. Warm up the account for 7 days before uploading. Real gmail. Watch videos in the niche. Subscribe to 10 to 15 channels. Post on day 8. Check impressions at 48 hours. Above 500 means the channel is alive. Under 500 means restart with a new gmail. Step 5. Attach the ebook from video 1. The Japanese Method sells the guidebook before the audience even shows up. The model only hits $10,000 a month when there is something to buy the moment trust kicks in. Step 6. Post 2x a week for 10 videos. Read the outliers. Double down. The lawn video pulled 357,000 views at 8.5x the channel average. The next 5 videos should be about lawns and outdoor maintenance. The algorithm just told them what the channel is. The window is the entire point. Faceless channels with strong authority frames are still underbuilt on YouTube long form. The Japanese Method is one of a handful of channels proving the play works while everyone else argues about whether AI content is allowed. It is. YouTube is not anti-AI. YouTube is anti-slop. A consistent faceless brand with an authority frame, a niche voice, and a real ebook is exactly what the classifier wants to see. A completely made up "Japanese cleaning tradition" figured out YouTube before most real gardeners with actual expertise and a real product.

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  memes (@megurologi) reported 7 minutes ago

  @TeamYouTube hello, please help me, my friend’s gmail got hacked 5 days ago, and hacker changed his account password and phone number in it, he can’t login with all methods, i need your help

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  Kewl pe (@KewlPe) reported 7 minutes ago

  @TeamYouTube Hi, I can’t log in my YouTube channel, I lost the acces to the Gmail account that is connected to it. I already tried your response to my problem but I can’t log in!

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  Nicolas Olaya (@ecom_nicolas) reported 11 minutes ago

  10 Email Marketing Trends That Will Define 2026 Over the past few years, we've worked with 100+ ecommerce brands across every revenue stage. Some patterns are becoming impossible to ignore. These aren't predictions. They're the strategies the best brands are already using to stay ahead. Here's the condensed version. 1. Human-Sounding Emails Are Winning AI-generated emails are flooding inboxes, and they all have the same polished, soulless, "unlock your potential" energy. Subscribers are tuning them out. The emails that are cutting through right now feel like a real person wrote them. Short sentences, conversational tone, a founder sharing something personal, an opinion that's slightly polarizing. This isn't anti-AI. It's about using AI as a tool, not a replacement for your brand voice. The human touch is what makes someone open email #47 from your brand instead of archiving it. 2. Retention Thinking Over Email Marketing Thinking For a long time, email marketers were hired to do one thing: send emails that generate revenue. Design a template, write copy, hit send, check the dashboard. That era is fading. The email marketers creating the most value in 2026 think like retention strategists. They understand the P&L, they know the CAC and payback period, they think about cohort analysis and product adoption rates—not just open rates and click rates. When you operate this way, you stop being "the email person" and become a strategic partner who solves real business problems. 3. Plain Text Emails as a Strategic Weapon Design emails still have their place. But plain text emails from the founder are consistently outperforming graphic-heavy campaigns for education, re-engagement, and personal updates. Three reasons: Better deliverability. They're lighter, and inbox providers favor them. More authentic. They feel human in a world drowning in polished marketing. They stand out. They look different from everything else in the inbox. The smart move is mixing both into your calendar. Design for product highlights and promotions. Plain text for founder stories, education, and personal check-ins. The contrast keeps things fresh. 4. Product Adoption Flows Over Sales Sequences Post-purchase used to be: thank you, cross-sell, review request. The entire sequence was designed to extract more money as fast as possible. The 2026 approach is completely different. The best brands are building post-purchase flows that help customers succeed with the product first. How to use it. When to use it. What to expect. Common mistakes to avoid. Because if someone doesn't use your product consistently, they don't see results. And if they don't see results, they churn. No amount of clever cross-sell emails will save a customer who never opened the bottle. 5. Zero-Party Data 2.0 Collecting zero-party data through your pop-up isn't new. How brands are using it has evolved. The old approach: Ask a question, store the answer, maybe personalize the welcome flow. That was ZPD 1.0. ZPD 2.0 is using that data across your entire business. When 57% of your customers tell you they struggle with a specific problem, that's not just an email segmentation insight. That's business intelligence. It should influence what products you develop, what hooks your ads use, and what copy goes on your product pages. Your pop-up is a market research engine, not just a list growth tool. 6. Micro-Commitment Flows When someone commits to a small action, they're significantly more likely to follow through with a bigger one. The best brands are embedding micro-commitments throughout their flows. We tested this with a supplement brand. We made subscribers "activate" their recurring discount by completing a short survey, even though every subscriber gets the discount by default. The group that claimed it had significantly higher LTV and repurchase rate. Why? Because when people put effort into claiming something, they value it more. That psychological investment translates directly into better retention. 7. Billing Reminder Optimization If you're a subscription brand, this single email might be the highest-leverage thing you can improve. Most brands send: "Your card will be charged in 3 days." That's basically an invitation to cancel. You're leading with cost instead of value. The reframe: "Your next delivery ships in 3 days, and here's the free gift we included." That shifts the psychology from "I'm losing money" to "I'm receiving something." We've seen up to 30% lower subscription churn with this approach. It's also one of the best moments to present a one-click upsell while the customer is already mentally prepared for the delivery. 8. Deliverability-First Strategy With Gmail and Yahoo tightening their filtering, deliverability has moved from "something to keep an eye on" to the foundation everything else sits on. A deliverability-first strategy means you don't build your email program and look at deliverability later. You design the entire strategy around it from the start. Authentication before you send a single email. Monthly list cleaning as non-negotiable. Sending to engaged segments instead of blasting. Monitoring spam rates weekly. Every decision—how often to send, what to send, and who to send to—should be filtered through one question: Will this help or hurt my inbox placement? 9. AI as a Partner, Not a Replacement This brings the AI conversation full circle. AI is a terrible replacement for strategic thinking. But it's an incredible accelerator for execution. Use AI to write email copy in minutes. Use it to generate a month's worth of campaign ideas. Use it to analyze hundreds of subject lines and uncover patterns humans would miss. But the human always makes the strategic decisions, the creative calls, and the judgment calls about what's right for the brand. AI handles the heavy lifting. You steer the ship. 10. Optimization Over Aesthetics A beautiful email is useless if it doesn't convert. This mindset has become dominant among the best email marketers. Compress every image so emails load fast. Make sure the above-the-fold section communicates the entire offer before anyone scrolls. Design mobile-first. Test in dark mode. Check rendering across Gmail, Outlook, and Apple Mail. Track the metrics that actually matter, not just Klaviyo attributed revenue. The brands generating the most revenue per subscriber aren't the ones with the prettiest emails. They're the ones where every email is built to perform.

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  Biks (@getbiks) reported 14 minutes ago

  @CleanShot I have already emailed you 3 days back with invoice and recording of the issue. Please check. its from my username @ gmail

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  𝙰𝚜𝚑𝚝𝚘𝚗 (@based_ashton) reported 21 minutes ago

  @gmail @srtanabe13 hey @gmail I can't login to my account for changing my old phone having provided one 2 step verification phone number and another account recovery phone number. 10+ years photos and memories of my life are locked up and I need help. Please 🙏

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  mello (@mellotradez) reported 21 minutes ago

  @asaingainz I just tried it with a blank account and created a gmail to make sure. First I got email, in this image, clicked join discord server then it loaded the page on the right then I click that on the top and it took me to discord and said invite accept. Please let me know if it worked. I just had someone else try and it worked for them as well. I’m not sure if something maybe didn’t go right. Let me check to see if it shows any alerts in my Linktree notifications of granted access

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  gordo (@amfetamigo) reported 24 minutes ago

  @JeremiahDJohns @Nikita i think the only problem with his intuition here (aside from the timeline) is that iMessage, phone calls, and Gmail all have *some* level of protective barrier; they aren't just open hoses. notice he didn't say email which does have the open relay problem.

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  Tyler Jackson (@Tjacksaiyan) reported 24 minutes ago

  @gmail can yall please help me with my email. My YouTube account got terminated. I filed appeal. It got approved. But now I can’t login because it says I reached the maximum number of attempts. Despite me trying to reset password or even “try a different method”

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  Brian Jacobson (@BrianHJacobson) reported 26 minutes ago

  @LouisLJJohns @Mark_McEathron @JeremyRedfernFL Louis walk me through your workflow here. 1. Attempt to Login to X with the fsudude account > 2. Use the recovery email displayed to guess the gmail account > 3. Attempt to login to gmail with the guessed email account and when prompted enter Layla's number > 4. Number goes through confirming it was her. Is that what you are claiming?

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  Bulkington (@BulkingtonBooks) reported 28 minutes ago

  @JD_Vyvanse i think alot of new businesses have issues with gmail/email deliverability and domain warmth - if you create an account and overnight create huge amounts of volume you get flagged. this screws up sends because they get flagged as trash or spam.

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  John (@Johnboscoamaobi) reported 30 minutes ago

  There are three things involved here: 1. Either your Gmail was hacked and hacker used your Gmail to login plus Google authenticator access 2. Your entire device is compromised with a keylogger 3. Someone close to you is doing this to Because he/she has access to your device

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  ⟭⟬ 𝒟𝐸𝐸 💛(◍•ᴗ•◍)⟭⟬ (@dee_devhs) reported 32 minutes ago

  @ibps_official @ibps_official What are you guys doing. From yesterday gmail verification not working after 1hr later otp verification is coming ,now i am still waiting. Banking aspirants are facing the same issues .

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  Puneet Patwari (@system_monarch) reported 33 minutes ago

  Gmail tells you your email is "Sent" in a split second - well before it's actually reached the other person, and sometimes before it's even tried. It's not really lying. It's making a promise. Sending mail means talking to the other person's mail server, which might be slow, busy, or down. If Gmail made you sit and wait for that, sending would feel broken. So instead it drops your email into a line and instantly tells you it's done. A separate system in the background picks emails off that line and does the slow work of actually delivering them, trying again if the other server isn't answering. This is called a message queue. Whenever a job is slow or unreliable, you take it, set it aside, and deal with it separately. "Sent" doesn't mean it arrived. It means "we've got it, and we'll get it there."

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  Jodie Macklin (@MacklinJodie) reported 36 minutes ago

  @JoeOnei59077700 @ClareCraigPath I think that is definitely an issue that can be impacting the number of signatures. It happened to me on a previous petition, no email even in junk inbox in hotmail. I now use a different gmail address when signing. I wonder how many people try to sign but can't proceed.

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  Bryan (@BryanBendickson) reported 37 minutes ago

  @RealB0ssMaker @SSGPrinceVegeta It’s 100% legal Gmail does it as well why should they waste server space on someone not using the service

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  Carlos Mota (@cafonsomota) reported 37 minutes ago

  @RVRSRNNG @KarlMaxxed I think that wasn't limited to Gmail; several products use it for the same reason I mentioned: to show data as quickly as possible when the internet is slow. In any case, if I open the calendar in the browser, it shows the UI we're already familiar with, not that one.

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  Chris Lang (@ChrisLangSocial) reported 40 minutes ago

  So the #1 thing I'm seeing with Shopify brands right now, and I've diagnosed this twice just in the last month, is that your emails aren't even landing anymore. They're going to spam and you don't know it because your open rates look totally fine. And here's why they look fine. The machines open everything now. Everything. Apple Mail, Gmail, all of it, they pre-load your emails on their own servers before a human ever looks at it, so that open rate you're staring at, half of it's a ghost. It's not real. It's telling you everything's good while your clicks fall off a cliff and your revenue falls right behind it. So you're sitting there thinking it's your content, thinking you gotta write better subject lines, and it's not that at all. Here's what's actually happening. Those fake opens are hiding the fact that half your list is dead. And when you keep mailing dead subscribers because the numbers look fine, Gmail watches that, decides your mail is unwanted, and starts dumping you straight into spam. Your reputation craters and you never even saw it coming. That's why so many brands got quietly wrecked this spring. Wider sends, less engaged lists, and Gmail cracked down hard. And I'll tell you the part nobody wants to hear. Your agency didn't catch this because they get paid to send, they don't get paid to land. Big difference. So go pull your last 10 campaigns right now. If your opens are steady but your clicks just died, you're not boring, you're invisible. Nobody's even seeing you.

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  JH 03 (@JH0379372) reported 42 minutes ago

  @marvinvonhagen fix Gmail

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  russel of drug/edtwt‘ 🪝 (@zoey8mydinner) reported 42 minutes ago

  Zaki sold his soul on eBay once and couldn’t take it down so he had to contact eBay on gmail and tell them to take it down

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  Navneet Sahay (@NavneetSahay6) reported 43 minutes ago

  @Google @Google my g pay Gmail G play store have stopped working .i have running jio recharge valid till 24th july I am.unable to make payments Due to g pay not working i unstalled it and tried reinstall But G play.storeDoesnt work Im in great trouble M8210710540 navneethzb51@gmail

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  ݂ ˖ ݁ (@lwcedangel) reported 46 minutes ago

  How many accounts do you have? twitter: I lowkey don’t know maybe 3 discord: 5 instagram: 6 facebook: 0 snapchat: 1 tiktok: 5 twitch: 1 steam: 3 youtube: 1 spotify: 2 pinterest: 1 reddit: 1.. gmail: 10+ I don’t remember the login to some telegram: 1

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  CodeCrafters (@CodeCrafters11) reported 49 minutes ago

  Your Gmail says storage full. Google wants you to pay. Don't. 15GB shared across Gmail, Drive, and Photos. Most of it is junk you never cleared. 7 steps to fix it for free:

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  yurii | quacks.app (@kyparus) reported 53 minutes ago

  deadline for @alliance applications in 19 days top 3 easy-to-fix issues I saw in Alliance applications: 1. Use Gmail or Outlook instead of your own domain email. It signals a lack of confidence in your project. If you're not confident, why would anyone else be? 2. Low-effort website. A high-quality, pattern-breaking website with attention to detail is one of the few things that gives early-stage projects asymmetric returns. If you're not good enough to build a cutting-edge website in 2026, how are you going to build a 10x product? 3. Claiming unrealistic traction - e.g. more whitelisted or monthly users than X followers. You lose trust immediately, and the rest of the application becomes hard to believe. 5 pro tips in replies👇 p.s. personal observations - not Alliance's official view

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  YanXbt (@IBuzovskyi) reported 54 minutes ago

  HERMES AGENT NOW RUNS MULTIPLE SECRET VAULTS SIDE BY SIDE. BITWARDEN + 1PASSWORD BUILT IN. ANY OTHER VAULT AS A PLUGIN. your API keys, tokens, and credentials no longer live in a single .env file. pull them from dedicated secret managers that rotate, audit, and encrypt for you. @NousResearch @Bitwarden HOW IT WORKS: secrets resolve at process startup. after .env loads, before Hermes reads credentials. order of precedence: 1. .env file (baseline) 2. secret sources override .env values 3. mapped sources (explicit VAR→reference) beat bulk sources 4. first source to claim a variable wins Hermes tracks provenance for every secret: "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY (from Bitwarden)" you always know where each credential came from. BUILT-IN SOURCES: BITWARDEN (bulk shape): dumps all secrets from a project folder. set BITWARDEN_ACCESS_TOKEN in .env. Hermes pulls everything else from the vault. 1PASSWORD (mapped shape): explicit mapping of env vars to vault references: secrets: onepassword: enabled: true env: ANTHROPIC_API_KEY: "op://vault/anthropic/api-key" OPENAI_API_KEY: "op://vault/openai/api-key" mapped sources beat bulk on contested variables. 1Password claims are stronger than Bitwarden dumps. RUN BOTH AT ONCE: secrets: sources: [onepassword, bitwarden] onepassword: enabled: true env: ANTHROPIC_API_KEY: "op://vault/anthropic/api-key" bitwarden: enabled: true 1Password handles your explicitly mapped keys. Bitwarden fills in everything else. conflict warnings tell you when both claim the same variable. BUILD YOUR OWN VAULT PLUGIN: any secret manager, password manager, OS keystore, or custom script can become a Hermes secret source. ~/.hermes/plugins/my-vault/ ├── plugin.yaml └── __init__.py implement one method: fetch(). return a dict of {ENV_VAR: value}. Hermes handles precedence, conflicts, and env writes. your plugin never touches os.environ directly. never raises exceptions. never prompts for input. the framework enforces security. SECURITY BY DESIGN: → fetch() never raises (errors go in result.error) → fetch() never prompts (startup runs in non-TTY: gateway, cron, Docker) → subprocess calls use run_secret_cli() with minimal allowlisted env (Hermes holds every credential by startup. never hand that to a child process.) → protected bootstrap tokens: no source can overwrite your vault auth vars → per-source wall-clock timeout (default 120s, configurable) → stdin closed on all subprocess calls (prompting helpers fail fast) → no shell=True anywhere WHY THIS MATTERS FOR MULTI-AGENT SETUPS: 8 profiles. 8 sets of credentials. API keys for Anthropic, OpenAI, Grok, DeepSeek, OpenRouter. MCP tokens for Gmail, Calendar, Slack. Stripe keys for payments. managing all of this in .env files = one leak away from disaster. with vault integration: → credentials rotate automatically → audit trail shows who accessed what → keys never exist as plaintext on disk → revoke one key in the vault, all profiles update at restart one config change. every profile pulls from the vault. Learm how to replace your entire team with 8 hermes agents 👇

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  Kenny Mc (@khan_kilo) reported 56 minutes ago

  @nicklaunches Most of my products are apps , so TikTok and Apple search ads has been the main. Something else I’ve been looking into for SaaS is Gmail ads. If you’re SaaS solve a problem that users normally gets an email about I think it’s a good surface to advertise your solution. I haven’t tried it as yet though but it seem like a high intent surface

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  Talha Ejaz (@TalhaEjaz07ee) reported 57 minutes ago

  I tried to run an email server on my home server using my custom domain. Not recommended. Spam filtering is a very difficult job that we take for granted in Gmail or Outlook.