Google Drive is down, so everyone act accordingly

I hope you don’t have a deadline to commit to, because Google Drive and Docs are down.

Looks like something's up with Docs – but fear not, we’re on it & you’ll be editing again in no time. Stay tuned here!

— Google Docs (@googledocs) October 9, 2015

If you try visiting either site, you’ll be met with a really slow interface and a server error. Trying to access files on the cloud will net you a ‘File not found’ message

Unlike when Facebook or Twitter goes down, many people use Docs for actually getting work done. Needless to say, said people are panicking.

https://twitter.com/artbosen/status/652565182733021188

https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/652565925229645824

The outage started at around 2:30 PM EST; hopefully it won’t last much longer, and we’ll update this post when things are back to normal. If you don’t have any serious work to do, I guess your weekend just started a little early.

Update 4:55PM ET: Service appears to be coming back, although still a little slow. Stay tuned, folks.