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Issues signing in if you use both Gmail and Google Apps at the same time

Posted By admin on Mar 15, 2011

Update: March 15, 2011, 4:53 PM: This issue is now (mostly) resolved! Google has pushed an update to their OAuth signin flow. When you are presented your account selection screen, choose your Gmail account, and everything will work. If you use both Gmail and Google Apps Mail in the same browser at the same time, you may be experiencing issues signing into Boomerang or The Email Game. You are impacted if you are taken to an account...

New Google Menu Bar prompts Boomerang update

Posted By Aye Moah on Feb 16, 2011

A few hours ago, we started getting emails and tweets from users about Boomerang disappearing. As it turns out, Google started rolling out their new menu bar to a subset of users and by now, it may have rolled out to everyone. If you haven’t got one, it looks like this. It’s pretty, isn’t it? We set to work making Boomerang work perfectly with Google’s new & shiny menu bar. And we have pushed out the latest...

Boomerang for Gmail: Scheduled Downtime Thursday 2/17

Posted By Mike on Feb 11, 2011

Boomerang for Gmail will be down starting at 10pm PST on Thursday 2/17 for maintenance and infrastructure improvements. We estimate that the service will be unavailable for one to two hours. Any emails you scheduled during the downtime will be returned/sent when service resumes.

Boomerang for Gmail: Some scheduled messages were delayed

Posted By Alex Moore on Jan 21, 2011

If you scheduled messages to be sent last night, some of them may not have been delivered until this morning. You may have also gotten erroneous Failed Send Message notifications for your scheduled messages (you can look in your Sent Mail folder to see if the messages were actually sent). We’re sorry that this happened, and we apologize for any problems this caused. What’s going on is that we’ve seen a lot of growth...

Boomerang: Scheduled Downtime Thursday 1/20

Posted By Alex Moore on Jan 20, 2011

Boomerang for Gmail will be down starting at 10pm PST on Thursday 1/20 for maintenance and infrastructure improvements. We estimate that the service will be unavailable for between 2 to 4 hours. Any emails you scheduled during the downtime will be returned/sent when service resumes.

The Boomerang for Gmail Launch: 0-70,000 Downloads in 30 Days

Posted By admin on Sep 21, 2010

We launched Boomerang for Gmail on Wednesday, August 11 at 10:30 PM. After 30 days, we went from a total of 55 downloads to over 70,000. Here’s what happened and some of the lessons we learned. Timeline: Before Launch: 40-50 visits per day, (total: 55 downloads) Launch Day (8/11): 3,524 visits Friday (8/13): 2048 visits (total: 4,500 downloads) Monday (8/16): 11,235 visits (over 8,000 downloads on 8/16) Tuesday (8/17): 9,814...