Comments on: When will Gmail Storage Counter Stop Again? I know!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:10:05 +0000

It’s gotta come sometime, well, maybe not but it should be out of beta by now. I mean they have already opened it up to the world so all they have to do is change the logo for goodness sakes.

By: netster007x

netster007x — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:28:50 +0000

I doubt Gmail will be taken out of beta anytime soon!

By: Pteromys

Pteromys — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 05:05:02 +0000

Uh, huh. Okay, that got scrambled. Those quotes around "megabytes on" should *not* be smart quotes, and there should be plus signs outside of the quotes. Or copy and paste the target of this link, and it should work...

By: Pteromys

Pteromys — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 04:59:25 +0000

Paste this into the address bar on the login page and it’ll give you the date on which the counter will stop if they forget to update it again.

javascript:alert(CP[CP.length-1][1] ” megabytes on ” (new Date(CP[CP.length-1][0])).toString());

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 17:37:06 +0000

I never really thought about that but I think you’re right with the invitations, but they do also let people sign-up via a cellphone text message. I remember reading at one point that they were concerned with opening it to the public because of spammers creating accounts. I bet they are working on some really technical way for accounts to be created so that spammers have a hard time creating accounts.

By: pdedecker

pdedecker — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 09:24:58 +0000

I don’t think they will get Gmail out of beta.

Here’s a paranoid theory: by requiring invitations, they have a clear view of who’s connected to who. That’s lots of data…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 07:02:27 +0000

I agree with Ashley…I think this was one of their “hidden” hints that they wanted someone to find to so that some buzz would startup.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 06:26:15 +0000

Anonymous wrote:

This holds no weight. If you look at the actual code, there are some variables that holds strings of digits. These hold the speed at which the size increases at certain times of the year. The reason it stops increasing on April 1st is just that the code does not have the rate-of-increase after that yet. The New Years’ Stop could have been caused by many things, including they got busy with the bug and forgot to update the script.

Of course this is all speculation But, doesn’t it seem a little odd that the counter stops ON Google’s Birthday? I think there might be more to it than just the rate-of-increase code.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:28:10 +0000

This holds no weight. If you look at the actual code, there are some variables that holds strings of digits. These hold the speed at which the size increases at certain times of the year. The reason it stops increasing on April 1st is just that the code does not have the rate-of-increase after that yet. The New Years’ Stop could have been caused by many things, including they got busy with the bug and forgot to update the script.

By: PULSE 2.0 » Blog Archive » GMail Undergoing Changes on April 1st?

PULSE 2.0 » Blog Archive » GMail Undergoing Changes on April 1st? — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:17:19 +0000

[...] How does ZDNet know that GMail will stop at 2835MB? Cybernet News had e-mailed the ZDNet author and the author informed Cybernet that if you set your computer clock to anything past April 1, 2007, the counter will stop at 2835MB. This may possibly be fixed by then or that may truly be when they plan to take GMail out of Beta. Share this post: Related Posts: [...]