YouTube is Down

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.

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Slashdotted

[linuxwrangler]

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

(It is.)

Re: Slashdotted

[Anonymous Coward]

And somehow we're still stuck with you.

Re:Slashdotted

[CrAlt]

Eh? It loads just fine for me, sonny.

Re: Slashdotted

[alta]

Awe. Your ID is cute. ;)

The most surprising part of all of this

[alvinrod]

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.

Re: The most surprising part of all of this

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re: The most surprising part of all of this

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a preview of YouTube China.

Re: The most surprising part of all of this

[WCMI92]

NOT funny. But yet, funny.

YouTube: 2005-2018 R.I.P.

[ZorinLynx]

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? :)

Oh the humanity!!!!

[Major_Disorder]

How am I supposed to watch cat videos now?

Re:Oh the humanity!!!!

[Tablizer]

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.

Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly

[BrendaEM]

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.

Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly

[iggymanz]

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

"depend" on youtube? LOLZ

Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly

[AmiMoJo]

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).

Re: Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly

[Cmdln Daco]

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.

Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly

[jittles]

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!

Re: Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly

[DaFallus]

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.

Hate it when that happens

[boundary]

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

One upload too many

[justthinkit]

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

Re:One upload too many

[Talderas]

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.

Google+ shutting down

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

It takes the occasional fail.

[Mal-2]

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.

Re: It takes the occasional fail.

[houghi]

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.

lol

[sootman]

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...