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.

Comments

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.

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]

It's a preview of YouTube China.

Oh the humanity!!!!

[Major_Disorder]

How am I supposed to watch cat videos now?

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

[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.

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: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.