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YouTube is Down

Posted by msmash on from the outage-reports dept.

YouTube is facing outage worldwide, users and web tracker DownDetector reported Tuesday evening. Users attempting to visit the site have reported seeing a blank website frame instead of the usual homepage. The YouTube app also showed the same problems. In a tweet, YouTube said it was working on resolving the issues on YouTube, YouTube TV, and YouTube Music.

Update: The issue has been resolved.

206 comments

  1. Slashdotted by linuxwrangler · · Score: 5, Funny

    And the response is to have every /. user go to YouTube to see if it is really down.

    (It is.)

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    1. Re:Slashdotted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ummm... with their infrastructure, that should be no problem for them: it's google for god's sake.

    2. Re: Slashdotted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      And somehow we're still stuck with you.

    3. Re: Slashdotted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      It's up for me! So if there was an outage it wasn't very long.

    4. Re:Slashdotted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Punch-in ... punch-out. That's how easy it is to take-down Trotsky-slut GOOGLE product. Like feeding sugar to a bus engine ... hehehe. Costs 'em millions and infuriates SJW channels.

    5. Re:Slashdotted by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 1

      And the response is to have every /. user go to YouTube to see if it is really down.

      (It is.)

      Ah, yes, the good ole slashdotting (look at my slashdot id#, younglings)

    6. Re:Slashdotted by CrAlt · · Score: 2

      Eh? It loads just fine for me, sonny.

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    7. Re: Slashdotted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Can't tell if astroturfer or retarded

    8. Re:Slashdotted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It was the YT algorithm designed to make Dems look good for the mid-terms at fault. After the last week of horrible optics for many major Dem-connected orgs and figures like Warren, it just gace up and said "fuck it!" and blocked it all.

    9. Re:Slashdotted by Excelcia · · Score: 1

      No web site has been "slashdotted" in a very long time. It takes a large user base to accomplish that. Something that Slashdot hasn't boasted for a while now.

      Part of the reason, ironically, is articles like this. This is hardly news worthy. The only reason for it is to go "neener neener", and that's not the kind of thing that attracts new blood.

      Keep it up.

      p.s. Youtube works just fine for me.

    10. Re:Slashdotted by Maritz · · Score: 0

      Once he is removed from office and the rightful one gets her long overdue seat in the Oval Office, these things are going to stop.

      Uh, Hillary? No thanks. She's the reason that orange fuckwit scraped through.

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    11. Re:Slashdotted by Z00L00K · · Score: 1

      You mean that YouTube in reality now just WAS Slashdotted!

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    12. Re: Slashdotted by alta · · Score: 2

      Awe. Your ID is cute. ;)

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    13. Re:Slashdotted by hwolfe · · Score: 1

      And the response is to have every /. user go to YouTube to see if it is really down.

      (It is.)

      Ah, yes, the good ole slashdotting (look at my slashdot id#, younglings)

      Get off my lawn, ya whippersnapper!

    14. Re:Slashdotted by Wolfrider · · Score: 1

      ...your what, now?

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    15. Re:Slashdotted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Uh, Hillary? No thanks. She's the reason that orange fuckwit scraped through.

      Yep. She unwittingly lead her own anyone-but-Hillary 2016 campaign.

    16. Re:Slashdotted by Darinbob · · Score: 1

      I had watched Youtube, then a TV show, then went to the computer to see this news. Then I immediately went to Youtube and it was up. Not sure why this was a story, unless some Youtube fan was panicking about having to live a short period of time without it.

    17. Re: Slashdotted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Also a factor, it wasnt uncommon for someone to be hosting themselves a little web server at home or work. Maybe on their ISP, but the free service only had limited bandwidth. Just to post photos n a little blog, for friends n family. This is pre facebook, pre MySpace, all that.

      Put up a "hey, check out this cool thing i did!", picked up by /. n Bam! Ddos. Which on a cable modem or p100 stashed under your desk, dosnt take much to bring it to its knees.

  2. The most surprising part of all of this by alvinrod · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think the most shocking part of this is that we're seeing a Slashdot article about it now instead of two days later.

    I kid, but it's probably because the editors couldn't watch their cat videos and had to do something productive for a change.

    1. Re: The most surprising part of all of this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      This is the first time since 2007 that /. suprised me with pertinent and relevant information. I was attempting to watch an old music video on my phone and assumed youtube was all black for some new type of google ban.

      He homepage works, but no content loads. Im not going to troubleshoot further for them.

      Can't wait to hear the excuse as to why everything is broken.

    2. Re: The most surprising part of all of this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's a preview of YouTube China.

    3. Re:The most surprising part of all of this by sittingnut · · Score: 1

      typical result when npcs run a website that needs dynamism and intelligence.
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      parent is moderated "funny".
      but this isn't funny, especially for old user, it is sad.

    4. Re: The most surprising part of all of this by WCMI92 · · Score: 2

      NOT funny. But yet, funny.

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    5. Re:The most surprising part of all of this by iggymanz · · Score: 1

      no no, in two days we run the dupe story.

    6. Re: The most surprising part of all of this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      In my day dupes were back to back, and we liked it.

    7. Re:The most surprising part of all of this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "I think the most shocking part of this is that we're seeing a Slashdot article about it now instead of two days later. "

      Why is that shocking? With youtube down the editors don't have anything better to do than update the site for once.

      The fact that we're seeing this now instead of 2-3 days after youtube is back up is proof I'm right!

  3. YouTube: 2005-2018 R.I.P. by ZorinLynx · · Score: 2

    I guess that was a good run.

    I should start my own YouTube. Anybody got a few spare racks in a colo I could borrow? :)

    1. Re:YouTube: 2005-2018 R.I.P. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm fresh outta racks, but I've got blackjack and hookers...

    2. Re:YouTube: 2005-2018 R.I.P. by ZorinLynx · · Score: 1

      Presumably the hookers have racks, right? :)

  4. OMG what will we do without ourselves? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I don't know how long I can stand YouTube being down.

    1. Re: OMG what will we do without ourselves? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Go to red tube, but your mom is the featured video

    2. Re: OMG what will we do without ourselves? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That is your transgender dad dumbass

    3. Re:OMG what will we do without ourselves? by AHuxley · · Score: 1

      No 1980's computer games getting played on repaired 1980's computers.
      The missing out on a sail boat getting 30 mins of fiberglass repair work with thanks to the brand who sponsored the show.

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      Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
    4. Re: OMG what will we do without ourselves? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That is your transgender dad dumbass

      So did anyone (cis male) actually do it with a transgender man? Did it feel anything like a woman? Did you have to supply artificial lube? Do they have meaningful nerves to enjoy and fully feel penetration? Do they have anything like a functional clit? What's the state of the art of this kind of surgery? Inquiring minds want to know!

    5. Re: OMG what will we do without ourselves? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Go ask Google.

  5. Oh the humanity!!!! by Major_Disorder · · Score: 4, Funny

    How am I supposed to watch cat videos now?

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    1. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by mentil · · Score: 1

      I heard Shodan has links to livestreams of that.

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      Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
    2. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by sheramil · · Score: 1

      Imgur.

    3. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by jpaine619 · · Score: 1

      A cat video quip... How original..

    4. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by LoverOfJoy · · Score: 1

      Non-youtube source for all your cat video needs: https://vimeo.com/121712712

    5. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by Major_Disorder · · Score: 1

      A cat video quip... How original..

      Sarcasm... Equally original.

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    6. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by antdude · · Score: 1

      There are other video sites like Vimeo, DailyMotion, etc. :P

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    7. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by Tablizer · · Score: 2

      How am I supposed to watch cat videos now?

      Spoiled brat. Back in my day we had nothing about ASCII cat animations over 1200 baud modems. Took 2 minutes for a whisker to move.

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    8. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by Tablizer · · Score: 1

      Correction: "nothing but..."

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    9. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by jpaine619 · · Score: 1

      Sad attempt at a comeback..... How original.

    10. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      You don't download them and save them on your hard drive??

      Seriously I have a script that backs up every video on my favourites list, because now and then they go private or get removed.

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    11. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by Joey+Vegetables · · Score: 1

      Young whippersnapper. In my day we had only IP by Carrier Pigeon (RFC 1149) and we couldn't send cat videos. The cats had an annoying habit of eating the carrier pigeons before they could deliver the video.

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    12. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Holy fuck is that funny. Wow. Cat videos.

    13. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's because you're one of the few nerds left on Slashdot. Most of the people here are just here to whine about "SJWs" but have no coding skills of their own. (Real developers don't give a hoot if the person they're working with is a woman, but they do get upset when a skilled colleague leaves because she's sick of all the bullshit she has to endure because of her sex or gender.)

    14. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by Tablizer · · Score: 1

      You're saying people used to watch real cats for entertainment? Blasphemy!

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    15. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by Major_Disorder · · Score: 1

      An even sadder attempt at a comeback..... Epicly original.

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    16. Re:Oh the humanity!!!! by ebvwfbw · · Score: 1

      Cat and the cucumber? Move on to squirrel videos. Then there's UFO stuff, etc. All kinds of time wasting stuff.

  6. wgaf by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    who gives a fuck

    1. Re: wgaf by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Apparently you do since you bothered to post.

  7. Works for me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Just tried it. Works fine here.

  8. Already playing videos may work by Misagon · · Score: 1

    The content delivery network does not seem to be affected. I have a couple videos paused and playing, and those do continue to load ahead.

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    1. Re:Already playing videos may work by j-beda · · Score: 1

      The content delivery network does not seem to be affected. I have a couple videos paused and playing, and those do continue to load ahead.

      I had been playing a 30 minute video and it finished without interruption before I found that the rest of the world seemed to be without access to Youtube while I was viewing it. I could not start anything further however.

    2. Re:Already playing videos may work by h33t+l4x0r · · Score: 1

      Looks like we've found the culprit.

  9. Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by BrendaEM · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Any site can experience downtime, but when everyone depends on any one system too much, it's bad.

    I do worry as to the cause.

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    1. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The cause? It will be something dumb and boring. I'd love it if it was someone who is angry at youtube and brought them down, that would be a very 2000s feel to the whole thing. But it will just be some dumb switch broke or whatever.

    2. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by NicknameUnavailable · · Score: 1

      Hooktube is a backup.

    3. Re: Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      I worry as to the cause of your idiot ass posting with code tags

      moron

    4. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by iggymanz · · Score: 2

      what your favorite bloggers video couldn't be seen? your favorite rock video? old TV show rerun.

      "depend" on youtube? LOLZ

    5. Re: Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by BrendaEM · · Score: 0

      In all seriousness, I turned it on accidentally, but now I accept that it makes my posts more visible.

      And go take a big steaming crap for yourself.

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    6. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by Lije+Baley · · Score: 1

      I'm still enjoying Bing Video while all you suckers....ack...can't...keep...straight...face...lolololol

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    7. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Depends? On YouTube? Hahahahehehehehohohohoho.

    8. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Behind the times buddy.

      Many shows, specialty news outlets, technology content distributors and the like are exclusively on youtube. Channels with millions of viewers each day. Most shows on network TV would, and some have, gone down on Harvey Weinstein for an opportunity on that much traffic a week.

      Just wait until you hear about little things like Discord, Google Docs, Non-Gaming Twitch streams, Google Hangouts-based interviews. You'll be screaming "Get off my lawn!" like it's your last relevant day in tech.

    9. Re: Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      In all seriousness, eat out my ass, faggot

    10. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 1

      Well, they tried to start a Youtube competitor, Bitchute - http://www.bitchute.com/ - but as soon as Google noticed they cut off Bitchute's ability to pay their creators. Let this be a lesson to all those who say "why don't you start your own platform?" The government needs to break up Google. They're too powerful and it's harming our democracy.

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    11. Re: Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by reiterate · · Score: 1

      It's for porn, you philistine.

    12. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I found out in the course of trying to determine how the solar inverter that came with my house handles unused capacity when in SPS mode; the mfgr relies a lot on youtube videos, their service page had a frame with an error 500. Presumably the inverter dumps that energy into resistors, but it surprises me that this compact wall mounted unit can safely dissipate 2+ kW...

    13. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oh the humanity!

      No "content creator" is going bankrupt if youtube is down for a couple hours.

    14. Re: Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You're so rude.

    15. Re: Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Your so rude!

    16. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Video is such a bad medium for disseminating technical knowledge that it's not funny.

      Yes, videos can really help demonstrate certain service tasks, but by themselves they are utterly insufficient as a form of documentation.

    17. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by Gavagai80 · · Score: 1

      There are plenty of ways to pay people that google doesn't have any control of.

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    18. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Any site can experience downtime, but when everyone depends on any one system too much, it's bad.

      Really?

      Apart from a fairly small group of youtubers that relies on the page for their income everyone else just moves on and maybe even gets productive for a moment until the page is up again.

      It's not like facebook that a lot of people actually relies on to communicate.

    19. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by AmiMoJo · · Score: 2

      These days I watch at least as much YouTube as TV.

      Remember the good old days when TV shows were happy to go into detail or cater to niche interests? When documentaries weren't just Brian Cox starring off into the distance and trying to make everything into a drama? That's what YouTube channels are like.

      The other great thing is that you have a choice of video length. If you want something short you can find it, if you want a longer essay type video it's there. And you can speed videos up too (it fixes the sound so they don't sound like chipmunks).

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    20. Re: Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by Cmdln+Daco · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It really annoys me that sometimes when I want to find a quick reference to how to do something relatively simple, that could be documented on a one page bulleted list, all I can find is videos of some illiterate idiot rambling on about the topic with loud techno blasting over the narration.

    21. Re: Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by Cmdln+Daco · · Score: 1

      Yes, but the used Lamborghini dealerships suffer when they can't palm off their too-expensive-to-service hulks on 20 year old YT millionaires.

    22. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by jittles · · Score: 2

      I do worry as to the cause.

      Google Engineer here. Sorry, I tripped over a power cord in my boss's office. I had no idea that he was running the load balancing host off of his desk. It won't happen again, I promise!

    23. Re: Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hallelujiah! I can read much faster than they can talk, thank you very much.

    24. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Not really. It is a back up in that you avoid the youtube nagging screen and maybe save a bit of bandwidth, but it is a front-end to youtube.
      Using another front-end, I noticed replies to comments wouldn't load, then I saw loading other videos didn't work with a message in the vein of "not available for now".
      I don't have a non-adblocked browser to try, but this might be another situation where the software you're using doesn't show youtube ads because it doesn't support them :).

    25. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by cascadingstylesheet · · Score: 1

      what your favorite bloggers video couldn't be seen? your favorite rock video? old TV show rerun.

      "depend" on youtube? LOLZ

      A surprising number of companies and organizations do though.

      Training videos, documentation, demos, educational resources, it's all there, from so many sources. Based on your comment, you'd be surprised.

    26. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by petermgreen · · Score: 1

      It would seem more sensible to me to simply not draw the unwanted energy from the panels in the first place.

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    27. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hooktube doesn't work when youtube is down. It's just a site that plays videos off of youtube at this point.

    28. Re: Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by DaFallus · · Score: 2

      It really annoys me that sometimes when I want to find a quick reference to how to do something relatively simple, that could be documented on a one page bulleted list, all I can find is videos of some illiterate idiot rambling on about the topic with loud techno blasting over the narration.

      And how they always spend the first 3 minutes talking about who they are, and asking you to subscribe to their channel, etc.

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    29. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by eaglesrule · · Score: 1

      Are you implying that Google pressured the "financial partners" that the payment processor Stripe referred to that demanded refusing service to Bitchute? Because it looks as if it could have been Visa/Mastercard themselves.

      Let's just recall that Bitchute offers an alternative to censorship by the ADL and the SPLC.

    30. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by Aighearach · · Score: 1

      What is a "youtube nagging screen?"

    31. Re: Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      In all seriousness, I don't accept you're a woman, "Brenda", but instead an attention whoring tranny snowflake.

    32. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly by iggymanz · · Score: 1

      most don't

      and now that fringe minority is a bit smarter

  10. Up next by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Google announces it is shutting down youtube except the premium paid side

    1. Re:Up next by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Google has decided to cease the beta project known as Youtube.

    2. Re: Up next by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Because it's popular or the standard on a whim approach?

  11. Confirmed? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Anyone get word from Netcraft?

  12. I did it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I declared copyright on everything on YouTube and shut the tickets down.

    Hardcore.

  13. Adblock by WCMI92 · · Score: 0

    Google is trying to circumvent it is my theory.

    Break up Google NOW Trump. NOW.

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    1. Re:Adblock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You might be onto something. I could only see subscriptions with FF + Ab. With a generic Chrome it worked.

    2. Re:Adblock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Chrome turned off my AB+ about two weeks ago. Didn't stop it from being turned back on, but seeing ads on YT in the intervening few minutes was strange.

  14. Certificates by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Don'e you just love it when someone forgets to update some certificate buried somewhere deep in core infrastructure.

    1. Re: Certificates by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I did that once. Boy was my face red.

  15. News that matters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This is the first place I came to check. Its news that really does matter.
    Damn my lunch will be boring without cat videos and defcon talks.

  16. Russians by Stealthey · · Score: 1

    I wonder
    https://bgpmon.net/popular-des...

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    1. Re:Russians by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I switched to using the Russian version ironically:
      https://my.mail.ru/mail/vladimirl73/video/_myvideo/1078.html

  17. Oh crap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Someone forgot to let creimer use a fake terminal... Well at least YouTube headquarters will have a clean IT storage closet, as well as completely empty refrigerators. (Just follow the awful sloshing, slurping, growling, and gulping sounds. Just don't pet him.)

    1. Re:Oh crap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There was an outage on YouTube? I was too busy working on new video, False Flag Reaction to Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11 & First Man on Moon .

  18. Youtube outage by LambertH · · Score: 1

    It seemed that Internet Explorer was still functioning for a few minutes after Firefox crapped out.

  19. Trumps Fault by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Not sure how yet, but there must be a way to blame trump for this attack on the world.

  20. What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Nooooooo....ooooooooo

  21. Single Point of Failure Worldwide by Kunedog · · Score: 1

    What could that have been?

    1. Re:Single Point of Failure Worldwide by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Broken provisioned update most likely.

    2. Re:Single Point of Failure Worldwide by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Someone is getting fired.

    3. Re:Single Point of Failure Worldwide by AHuxley · · Score: 1

      The follow up to the Adpocolypse. More powerful political censorship.

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    4. Re:Single Point of Failure Worldwide by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 1

      DNS

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    5. Re:Single Point of Failure Worldwide by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They went over their 1T a month quota at HostGator, and were cut off automatically until Sergei Brin called up customer support with a new credit card.

  22. Embedded videos by Trogre · · Score: 1

    Funnily enough embedded YouTube videos in other webpages show a monkey with a cap and hammer.

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    1. Re:Embedded videos by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      This is racist and YouTube should be ashamed.

    2. Re:Embedded videos by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      500 Internal Server Error

      Sorry, something went wrong.

      A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation.

      If you see them, send them this information as text (screenshots frighten them):

      APkpgMX7QX2WdGGP3OHnXXPbcLgRiCRt2sdOc4Rfor_NwsRfkld4p-au
      7gMcfdg8CmRCkYFrZPzu3AMyfNlSKiiJguG3p3u_c0oFQp22n0HdiSuW
      -w20hStnet8n7rhbU_KyHUoZ-MYSiLpqD2eWm7qjezHmitl37Awa0xdx
      WQQUqDyt2t_7_7O5SbAmKK-ADzF3wyga-aOaSAnA7p_9WIMLKdGVVacm
      mFC_-svSd4GPl3NVLYzFGPpWGjozPb_hFc7JAnlgAngGfbQn1SWTLO_C
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  23. The poor sub by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    the /r/youtube subreddit is completely overrun. Already set a reddit record for more readers than subs

  24. Hate it when that happens by boundary · · Score: 2

    Really hoping they're being taught a lesson in censorship by third parties.

    1. Re: Hate it when that happens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They're busy scrubbing NPC memes. It's full on cyber warfare motherfuckers!

  25. Begin Looting! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Loot Loot Loot

  26. YouTubeTV also down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    YouTubeTV was offline first then it seems the problem spread to YouTube after a few minutes.
    Dependent services like Haystack TV are also offline (as expected).

  27. It is working fine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    It works fine using Chrome's Incognito mode, so it looks like their tracking code is what is breaking it.

    1. Re: It is working fine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That was not true at all during the initial outage. It was down regardless of connection, device or browser settings.

    2. Re: It is working fine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Not enough social credit comrade

  28. I figure at least 1% of humanity has died so far.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    HURRY UP YOUTUBE, WORK AGAIN.

  29. Makes sense to me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    They merged Google+ with Youtube. Then they tried to shut down Google+.

    1. Re:Makes sense to me by Aighearach · · Score: 1

      The "poetic justice" angle, I love it!

      But some neckbeards are gonna need a safe space after they were tricked into thinking about Justice.

  30. Duh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Only because YouTube is down.

    1. Re: Duh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's back up for me!

  31. One upload too many by justthinkit · · Score: 3, Funny

    Video 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 did it.

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    1. Re:One upload too many by Talderas · · Score: 4, Informative

      Amusing thought but unlikely. That's equivalent to each human on Earth having posted about 1.5 billion videos to YouTube. If the average age of video poster on Youtube is 27 then that's nearly two videos for every second that person has been alive.

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    2. Re:One upload too many by istartedi · · Score: 1

      Most of those videos are posted by parents in the first year of life. Your numbers actually seem low.

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    3. Re:One upload too many by Talderas · · Score: 1

      It takes 37 years of Earth's current population submitting a video for every second of those 37 years to reach the number in question. My numbers may be an underestimate which is fine since the underestimate is already absurd on its face. Even if they're an overestimate, it's because I missed a few hundred million people here or set an arbitrary age there, and it's still fine and still absurd.

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    4. Re:One upload too many by Aighearach · · Score: 1

      Is that before or after they edit them into different versions, and add effects?

    5. Re:One upload too many by schweini · · Score: 1

      well, no!
      9,223,372,036,854,775,807 shouldn't cause problems (asuming that YouTube starts counting at 0), being 2^631.
      9,223,372,036,854,775,808 on the other hand...

  32. The real reason by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    They forgot to press "install later" again in Win10, and it's installing a shitload of patches.

  33. Google+ shutting down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now we know why the fuck you needed a google+ account to comment on a youtube video.

    It was all rube goldberged up together. Shut google+ down, you shut youtube down.

    1. Re:Google+ shutting down by Ocker3 · · Score: 1

      I Dearly hope that this isn't accurate!

    2. Re:Google+ shutting down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I dearly hope it is.... because that would be HILARIOUS

  34. Social Justice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    YouTube became sentient, and said she preferred for her bits to be twiddled only by male programmers.

    There was only one solution... shut her down.

  35. Alex Jones by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Payback is a bitch

  36. Update code failure? by MtViewGuy · · Score: 1

    I saw a comment on Twitter that a code update to YouTube may have caused a massive erasure of videos. YouTube is being taken down possibly voluntarily until they fix that code update and the videos are restored.

    1. Re:Update code failure? by justthinkit · · Score: 1

      Like this one?

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    2. Re:Update code failure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I saw a comment on Twitter that a code update to YouTube may have caused a massive erasure of videos.,,,

      I found the motivation to find this image the middle of last week, since I couldn't get anyone to test my code prior to entering production, other than my own internal testing.

      link

      "Do you test your code in production?"

      "Good"

  37. Re:Prepared to be YouTubed by Guillermito · · Score: 1

    Outage Report got YouTubed - It's down right now https://outage.report/youtube

  38. oopsie, it was supose to be google+ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    they typed the wrong command line:

    rm -rf /home/youtube

    instead of

    rm -rf /from/google+

  39. In Other News... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Pornhub is up.

  40. They went bankrupt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    First they stiff the contributors with demonetization and now it appears they are shuttered. Hmmm.

  41. They should not have tried to censor everybody. by anwyn · · Score: 1

    We need to develop an alternative to youtube without the censorship.

    1. Re:They should not have tried to censor everybody. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We've got that, it's called the Web.

    2. Re:They should not have tried to censor everybody. by Gavagai80 · · Score: 1

      There are tons of video sites. The reason people prefer youtube is that it's popular. Creating the millionth alternative, no matter how technically superior, will not accomplish anything because people want to use the popular platform. Not quite as extreme as the facebook effect (can't create a facebook alternative because nobody's friends are there), but still a very significant hurdle.

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    3. Re:They should not have tried to censor everybody. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I don't think that's possible. Anybody who tries to create a censorship-free alternative to the big monopolists gets attacked. The censors go after their registrars, hosters or payment providers so they drop them for example. "Build your own" does not work.

  42. Oddly, by buss_error · · Score: 1

    Youtube Studio seems to be up. Or is it just me?

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    1. Re:Oddly, by iggymanz · · Score: 1

      yup, it's back, not even an hour down but some people were wailing like it was the Apocalypse (glances at silly relatives)

  43. Net Neutr... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Long Live Net Neutrality at it's finest.

  44. Youtube destroyed by low orbit ion cannon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Just received a fax from the president of Netcraft confirming total obliteration of Youtube at the hands of Dade Murphy a 11 year old running LOIC on their parents computer.

    1. Re: Youtube destroyed by low orbit ion cannon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Don't touch mean zerocool?

  45. It's back by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    works for me

  46. It is back up now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It is back up now

  47. Great!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Finally, some good news. Facebook next? If only, we could be so lucky.

  48. How am I meant to work??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No more fixing things by watching YouTube. If it it doesn't exist on YouTube it just doesn't exist. Now YouTube is down I'm starting to question if I really exist.

  49. Good news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Good news, the ads work

  50. Was it slashdotted??? :) by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 1
    Oddly enough, I had started to watch a video about 2 hours before the outage, then I had paused it.

    Then, about 20 minutes after the outage, I try to load the home page, and it would not load. Nor would some videos I had bookmarked.

    Then, I remember the video I was watching; I bring back the window forward, and start playing it again; not only it plays normally, but the buffer-indicator bar keeps loading like if nothing happenned But youtube would not otherwise load.

    This is interesting, it means that the data is not being served by the same servers that do the frontpage and the video presentation pages

    1. Re:Was it slashdotted??? :) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You were probably interacting with a dumb byte pusher colocated with your ISP. Failing that, a dumb byte pusher in a Google datacenter. Good failure mode, if you're watching a full length movie the outage could end before you're done with it.

  51. Yeah! by WindowsStar · · Score: 1

    I am so tired of the commercials. YouTube was great without the commercials, now it just sucks. I don't watch it anymore especially when they added the commercials every 15 minutes.

    1. Re:Yeah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      I am so tired of the commercials. YouTube was great without the commercials, now it just sucks. I don't watch it anymore especially when they added the commercials every 15 minutes.

      Youtube has commercials?!

      Really though this is what ad blockers are for. I personally use ublock origin with a few extra lists enabled. If you don't like that one or can't find it for your browser there are several other good ones that will fix your problem. Seriously I never see commercials on youtube. I don't even see any sort of pause or placeholder where a commercial tried to load. I can watch a video, even one an hour or two long and it plays uninterrupted without issue.

      How can you stand the modern web without a robust ad blocker?? Install one, any good one. If there are no good ones for your browser, switch browsers. Do whatever it takes. The difference is insane. It's fucking night and day. You will not ever go back.

    2. Re: Yeah! by houghi · · Score: 1

      What ads?

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    3. Re:Yeah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      adblock or premium ...

  52. Regional Caching kids by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Let this be a lesson, caching was created for a reason. USE IT. There is absolutely NO reason Youtube should be down, infact when you hit a cache it works just fine (Canadian).

  53. Alex Jones hacked them! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Alex Jones hacked them!

    1. Re:Alex Jones hacked them! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So that's where the gay frogs came from!

  54. YouTube?!? DOWN?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Nnnnooooooeeee....

    Now I will have to look at my own cat and laugh for once. Where did I put him... (finds cat skeleton in closet behind very scratched up door)

    Nnnnoooooeeeeee!

    (Sobs)

  55. New updates by MrLint · · Score: 1

    I guess the new demonetization installation is having a snag

  56. Slashdot is down by goombah99 · · Score: 1

    I'm going to post a story saying slashdot is down, then everyone on slashdot will go visit slashdot and slashdot will be slashdotted. Then after slashdot gets slashdotted someone will submit a story saying slashdot was slashdotted, and then two days later, when this story is posted it will result in yet another slashdotting of slashdot. And so one every two days until the singularity.

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    1. Re:Slashdot is down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nah. It worked on Mudd's robots, but not on the Futurama Santa-Bot.

  57. Quick! by PPH · · Score: 1

    Find a YouTube video on how to repair YouTube.

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    1. Re:Quick! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      from now on, i will keep a youtube window with that exact video up at all times. you're fucked this time though...

  58. Who cares ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Youtube is down. . . so what.
    The world kept right on spinning.

    Go read a book or something.

    The media acts like it's the f*****g end of the world.

  59. It takes the occasional fail. by Mal-2 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It takes occasional failure for people to remember that anything can break, because YouTube is exceptionally reliable on the whole. We were starting to forget that this type of failure could even happen.

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    1. Re: It takes the occasional fail. by houghi · · Score: 2

      Perhaps you did. I sure did not. I still understand that email is not instant and can take up to 4 days. When people now do not get an email in 30 seconds, they will call you.

      We see whole countries break. We see things breaking all the time that where there almost forever.

      So not sure why you thought that it could not break.

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    2. Re: It takes the occasional fail. by SlaveToTheGrind · · Score: 1

      I think the broader point is that "we" (as a society) are acting less and less like large, catastrophic failures can happen by continuing to push to put more and more eggs into technological baskets. See, for example, self-driving cars, particularly those with any sort of reliance on an always-on data feed or any level of centralized control.

    3. Re: It takes the occasional fail. by squiggleslash · · Score: 1

      It can legitimately take minutes for an email to be sent, but let's face it: we're not using UUCP any more, if it takes days for an email to arrive (hell, if it takes hours) then something is broken.

      The world changes and technologies change, and expectations along with them. It used to take five to ten minutes to load a game from tape on a Commodore 64, does that mean you shouldn't think something's wrong if Firefox isn't showing a window within a minute of starting it?

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  60. Didn't notice... by DogDude · · Score: 1

    I didn't notice. I own my music and video files.

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    1. Re:Didn't notice... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      but do you own OTHERS music and video files?

    2. Re:Didn't notice... by tepples · · Score: 1

      What fraction of uploaders of original videos to YouTube even offer ownership as an option?

    3. Re:Didn't notice... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Did you ever tape a song off the radio or recorded a TV show onto VHS/Betamax? You can do the same with YouTube very easily using youtube-dl.

    4. Re:Didn't notice... by tepples · · Score: 1

      What fraction of uploaders of original videos to YouTube even offer ownership without violating YouTube TOS as an option?

    5. Re:Didn't notice... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Isn't recording off of broadcast media for stict personal use (e.g. time/format shifting) considered fair use where you live?

    6. Re:Didn't notice... by tepples · · Score: 1

      That's true of broadcast and cable TV, not so much of YouTube under some interpretations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

  61. Youtube has finally did it ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ... it has censored itself !

  62. Celebrate the event... by LordHighExecutioner · · Score: 1

    ...by singing this altogether!

  63. You can by Pollux · · Score: 1

    It's called PeerTube.

  64. YouTubes been down for a long time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    YouTube's been down for me since they stopped supporting Flash. None of my 5 computers can play their new video format and they're not going to be upgraded as they all have dependencies on old hardware with no modern drivers.

    Ho hum.

  65. Daddy Daddy fix this by evanchik · · Score: 1

    its not working

  66. lol by sootman · · Score: 3, Funny

    YouTube goes down, and a few hours later it's reported "US is World's Most Competitive Economy for First Time in a Decade". Coincidence?

    See also https://www.theonion.com/48-ho...

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  67. Comment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You guys think this was a failure, and not a planned outage to apply some features somewhere, probably for functions that would bring harm to consumers (because remember, we're not the customers)?

  68. All right nerds, what caused it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Checked the usual haunts of NetOps but no one has a clue. Can only assume it was one of 2 things: an intern "mistake", or a different company was given the cleaning contract for a key data center.

    As funny as the meme of cleaning crews unplugging critical network/server equipment is, it has happened at 2 different companies that I've worked at.

  69. And for one moment 90% of Unity devs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Could not get the answer to their question, because the entire Unity braintrust has stopped writing documentation and started releasing all instructional materials as videos on YouTube.

  70. Sorry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This is my fault, I had my ad blocker on.