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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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    Stupidity only gets you so far, then you've gotta try
    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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      --- To err is human... Am I more human than most ?
  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. Thanks... by Foolhardly · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  4. 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. ;)

  5. 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.