Google docs outage frustrates users nationwide

From procrastinating students to reporters on deadline, the hiccups on Google Docs were giving people plenty of anxiety on Wednesday.

Google Drive outages were scattered across the United States, including most of California, the Pacific Northwest, Houston, Chicago, New York and Boston.

For some, the documents app crashed, restarted and crashed again. Others found it agonizingly slow.

Google was aware of the problem and issued this statement:

“We're aware of a problem with Google Docs affecting a significant subset of users,” reads the message. “The affected users are unable to access Google Docs. We will provide an update by 11/15/17, 2:30 PM detailing when we expect to resolve the problem. Please note that this resolution time is an estimate and may change.”

So as people waited for Google Docs to be fixed, they took to Twitter to let off some steam.

This story was originally published November 15, 2017 at 2:59 PM with the headline "Google docs outage frustrates users nationwide."