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YouTube Is Down

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the what-it's-2012-already dept.

A number of readers have noted that YouTube is currently giving back 400 and 502 http errors, and has apparently been doing so for an hour or more. I suggest you use this window of opportunity to get something done: the dancing kitties will still be there when you're done.

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  1. Well now... by Theoboley · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now, there will be more productivity across United States Workforce on Thursday!

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    1. Re:Well now... by twisteddk · · Score: 5, Funny

      Except for with all the viacom employees that are trying to upload their stuff

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  2. Dancing kitties will still be there? by TSchut · · Score: 5, Funny

    How does the submitter know that the dancing kitties will still be there? Maybe there's a big fire and all dancing kitties have been burned! ONOES. Or at least, their digital representation has been burned. Still onoes I suppose.

  3. OMFG NO !!! by C0vardeAn0nim0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    now i'll have to actually WORK ???

    this is cruel and unusual punishment. call the human rights conuncil at UN, make them send a strongly worded letter to youtube, this can't go on !!!

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    1. Re:OMFG NO !!! by VJ42 · · Score: 4, Funny

      now i'll have to actually WORK ???

      Not if you just carry on reading /.

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  4. Thanks... by Foolhardly · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll definitely be getting work done today seeing as Slashdot has run out of actual news.

  5. Re:Works here by julesh · · Score: 5, Informative

    And in the UK.

    So, basically, a single node in a CDN has gone down. Huge story, and /. has done well to be the first to (apparently) break it. 'Grats, Taco. ;)

  6. Cricket/IPL Effect? by Gopal.V · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Today Bangalore is playing in the IPL today and youtube is supposed to be streaming the match live. The timing of this outage is almost coincidental. And not all of youtube is down, for instance, I clicked through to this video which seems to be working.

    Add to that, the fact that Airtel (my isp) has lifted the bandwidth limits for this particular Youtube channel (they have a local stream point, I guess ... it doesn't cost them upstream).

    So as soon as youtube is down, I head a groan all around my floor and people leaving their desks to go watch the match in the cafeteria. One of those odd situations when youtube going down probably caused a drop in productivity ;)

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  7. Re:it's back.... by courteaudotbiz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, it's Slashdot here... by the time the news make it to the main headlines, any website downtime can be resolved.

  8. Re:Works here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, working here from the midwest. Taco knows how the internet works. Why, exactly, do we have a "major site is down" story with no links? A major data center or backbone going down might be news. What we seem to have here is an unconfirmed and unsubstantiated anecdotal evidence that someone, somewhere on the internet might have lost access to youtube?

    I think more coffee is required to process this story.

  9. A communications disruption can mean only one ... by guysmilee · · Score: 4, Funny

    A communications disruption can mean only one thing!