Google Webmaster Tools Message Center Bug

Mar 19, 2008 - 7:49 am 0 by

Google recently improved the Webmaster Tools "message center" by having messages wait for you even if you are not verified.

But a few reports are coming from Google Groups that the message center is not displaying open messages. Users are seeing they have a message, they click on the message and are presented with the following error:

Your messages are not available at this time. Please try again later.

Google Webmaster Trends Analysts, Jonathan Simon, responded saying:

This appears to have been a temporary issue.

But another user came in an hour or more later saying that he also just received that error.

I was unable to verify or replicate the error myself, because I don't have any messages waiting for me. Google, want to send me a note so I can test it? ;-)

Forum discussion at Google Groups.

 

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