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Ask HN: YouTube down?

• s3r3nity 8y ago
  Yeah - having some problems myself. https://outage.report/youtube https://outage.report/youtube
• bigsassy 8y ago
  Yup, this is all I get when I load it: https://www.dropbox.com/s/thbiecwx04on7d5/Screenshot%202018-10-16%2021.17.24.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/thbiecwx04on7d5/Screenshot%202018-...
• alcamore 8y ago
  A lot of different sites are down right now. I wonder what's going on.
  • abledon 8y ago
    what are some others?
    • sanjeetsuhag 8y ago
      PornHub is down for me.
      • jurca97edi 8y ago
        it just got serious
      • WilliamEdward 8y ago
        Not for me
    • reubenmorais 8y ago
      Quora is down for me.
      • YongMan 8y ago
        Same to me.
      • bpye 8y ago
        Quota still seems to be up for me, South West England.
      • alexozer 8y ago
        Seems fine for me.
    • noobermin 8y ago
      Ironically, outage.report, a website for reporting downed web services is also down. So signs point to it not just being youtube, a number of websites seem to be having issues. May be a provider is down?
      • LeoPanthera 8y ago
        Maybe outage.report is down because so many people are hitting it after YouTube going down...
    • ad1ttya 8y ago
      discourse is down for me.
  • untog 8y ago
    GCS issues maybe?
    • bpye 8y ago
      GCP [1] and G Suite [2] appear to be green. [1] - https://status.cloud.google.com/ https://status.cloud.google.com/ [2] - https://www.google.com/appsstatus https://www.google.com/appsstatus
• First_indexing 8y ago
  Working Fine On My Hand!
• p5k 8y ago
  Not working for me.
• samspenc 8y ago
  Yeah I'm getting the following error: 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): <huge hash text>
  • hubtree 8y ago
    I get the same for individual videos.
  • ddtaylor 8y ago
    https://oopsiewhoopsie.com/ https://oopsiewhoopsie.com/ (Warning loud / NSFW)
• alienreborn 8y ago
  Yes. https://twitter.com/hashtag/youtubeisdown https://twitter.com/hashtag/youtubeisdown
• tahon 8y ago
  Yep down for me too, 500 Internal Server Error. (Montana)
• Cursuviam 8y ago
  Direct videos are up again, but it looks like other site features are wonky
• DoktorEgo 8y ago
  It seems like the interface is working, but the actual content is failing to load.
  • eyphka 8y ago
    Same
  • hotpockets 8y ago
    At first, the whole interface was failing to load. There was a 500 error message and a monkey with a wrench.
    • ASalazarMX 8y ago
      Embedded videos also embed the monkey on play.
• jtchang 8y ago
  This is going to be one good postmortem.
  • WrtCdEvrydy 8y ago
    Mistakes were made... anyways. here's Wonderwall.
  • yertletheturtle 8y ago
    I sure hope they live stream it.
    • SteveNuts 8y ago
      On Twitch of course
      • ayberk 8y ago
        You're joking, but I like the idea of watching a live postmortem with Twitch chat.
        • mrmuagi 8y ago
          Me too, but I imagine a tsunami of 4head spam.
  • onemoresoop 8y ago
    No postmortem yet?
• isaacg 8y ago
  Some specific pages are giving me internal server errors, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/user/MLB?pbjreload=10 https://www.youtube.com/user/MLB?pbjreload=10
  • 6432aa7f 8y ago
    How about this one? https://www.youtube.com/user/test https://www.youtube.com/user/test
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• madwagon 8y ago
  Not working here in Vietnam
• antoaravinth 8y ago
  Not working here in India as well.
• jurca97edi 8y ago
  not working in Hungary also
• blah9674 8y ago
  Cloudfare site also affected
• deleted 8y ago
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• redleggedfrog 8y ago
  Sign of the end times folks.
  • waynecochran 8y ago
    Frogs, Locust, Hail, and YouTube going down.
• stefanpl 8y ago
  Down in Canada too.
• everyone 8y ago
  Not working in Ireland
• chaudhary27 8y ago
  Yep, down for me here in NYC
• qntmfred 8y ago
  Hmm the YouTube app on my TV timed out I just switched to Netflix didn't figure it was a global issue
• lucaspottersky 8y ago
  major outage worldwide i'd say. im from brazil
• gothroach 8y ago
  Getting 503's on the Android app on my end.
• dlock 8y ago
  thought it was just my connection ... indonesia can be like that sometimes and believe it or not i came on here to check if anyone else complaining ... seems like its true and not just my isp
• bitdeep 8y ago
  Child getting crazy with @youtube down. LoL, they don't understand that services can get offline. #youtubeisdown
  • relaunched 8y ago
    I'm trying to explain it to a very distraught 2.5 year old.
    • apetresc 8y ago
      Tell them YouTube is sleeping. My toddler explains every sort of absence as whatever it is (inanimate or otherwise) sleeping.
• knaik94 8y ago
  Not working in NJ
• slaymaker1907 8y ago
  Wow, thought my internet was just being weird. Guess not.
• minhoryang 8y ago
  Same as South,Korea.
• brunorsini 8y ago
  Getting "An error occurred. Please try again later" playback errors here
• igotsideas 8y ago
  Getting errors too. First time ever tho so props to the YouTube team for being pretty damn good most of the time.
• rodriguesram0n 8y ago
  In Brazil, im middle of jungle (Amazonas) Youtube Down!!!!
• tartoran 8y ago
  Doesn't work in New York, search functionality works but no video load
• smartbit 8y ago
  Youtube down in Netherlands
• francocorrea 8y ago
  Yeap is down for me as well :(
• addsubtract 8y ago
  Down in boston
• akhong 8y ago
  Not working in Thailand too
• andun 8y ago
  Just add "disable_polymer=1" to every URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJQP7kiw5Fk&disable_polymer=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJQP7kiw5Fk&disable_polymer=... yw
  • RandomGuyDTB 8y ago
    I use a TamperMonkey script that does that for me, still down.
• ohnoohnohno 8y ago
  down in switzerland, on phone and laptopn
• almostApatriot1 8y ago
  Devastating for streamers. Google must compensate
  • neotek 8y ago
    Sure, Google should give all streamers a 500% refund on their YouTube fees, which comes to, let me see, zero dollars.
    • almostApatriot1 8y ago
      i picked a bad day to quit facebook live
• ohnoohnohno 8y ago
  down in switzerland, phone and laptop
• Swiegy 8y ago
  Not working in Poland
  • Applethief 8y ago
    Down in New Zealand also
• vitobeto 8y ago
  I get an almost empty Youtube interface, Youtube Music is also down, Google play music is working a little bit slower than usual. I'm in MX.
  • mrkstu 8y ago
    YoutubeTV down too. Big footprint outage.
• aprao 8y ago
  Unfortunate timing, right about when San Bruno leaves for the day.
• qubax 8y ago
  Yep. It's down. "pbjreload=10". Seems like an old issue related to cookies. But who knows.
• tananaev 8y ago
  Tried to decode text as base64, but nothing interesting. Either it's not base64 or the original is in some binary format.
  • __george__ 8y ago
    It’s an encrypted stack trace, to allow G employees to debug reports but not allow everyone to see into their systems.
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• sarim 8y ago
  I have never seen Youtube not work. Ever. This is a special moment. Glad you are all here to share it with me :)
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  • ben174 8y ago
    It actually makes me appreciate how reliable youtube has always been. I never even consider a youtube link might not work perfectly when I click one.
    • baccheion 8y ago
      Internet sites go down all the time, though usually not for long or en masse.
    • ozaark 8y ago
      Makes a good case for self-hosting videos as a backup
      • SteveNuts 8y ago
        Or a good case for keeping one or two physical paper books on a bookshelf, and maybe a candle and lighter.
        • ozaark 8y ago
          I don't think yt being down is a signal for the end of times
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• tudor_sabin 8y ago
  YouTube app does not load any videos in Romania either.
• emersonrsantos 8y ago
  I wonder if there's any link to the Brazilian elections, the candidates are using YouTube heavily and it's prime time there.
  • reese_john 8y ago
    Bolsonaro has not taken over the world ... yet. 17
• gabept 8y ago
  I also can't access Google analytics
  • fanzhang 8y ago
    Works for me still.
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• dabei 8y ago
  Any idea or guess on the cause?
• antcas 8y ago
  Down for me as well in Colombia.
  • jen729w 8y ago
    Ah, Colombia. I was there about 20 years ago and it's still my favourite country by far. <3
• virmundi 8y ago
  I get a mostly empty page with a lot of pro-SJW stuff, which is the opposite of what I normally get. Not enough Clapton.
  • Pichai007 8y ago
    Sad! Pichai monkey working on it.
• bpye 8y ago
  "Where were you when YouTube died."
  • DoreenMichele 8y ago
    "On HN, of course."
    • RandomGuyDTB 8y ago
      "And why were you not offline?" (continuing song lyrics i think we're making)
      • DoreenMichele 8y ago
        We should set it to "American Pie" and make sure to start off mentioning how we were all still mourning the loss of Paul Allen when this happened.
        • RandomGuyDTB 8y ago
          Let's make sure to make this the next stanza ;)
          • DoreenMichele 8y ago
            Where were you when YouTube died? On HN, of course. Putting off dealing with my divorce. And wishing Paul Allen were still alive.
            • RandomGuyDTB 8y ago
              I think it goes more like Where were you when YouTube died On HN of course and why were you not offline putting off dealing with my divorce I wish paul allen was still alive ..? (has more of a feel to it, alternating rhymes.)
        • kerryfalk 8y ago
• Scoundreller 8y ago
  Can Netflix handle the extra load? Haha.
  • deleted 8y ago
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  • sandov 8y ago
    And Twitch.
  • fixermark 8y ago
    I spent the evening binging on Agents of SHIELD, so I assume yes. ;)
• walrus01 8y ago
  Medium sized regional AS here: I am looking at a fairly large drop in IX traffic charts for our ports that face the IX, updated every 60s, which directly corresponds in time with the beginning of the Youtube outage. (We are not big enough to have a direct, dedicated peering session with the Google/Youtube AS). At any given time of day 4pm-11pm a huge percent of our traffic is Youtube (or netflix, or amazon video, or hulu, or similar).
  • suls 8y ago
    Is any of this info publicly available anywhere?
    • walrus01 8y ago
      there are a number of IXes that publish aggregate traffic charts, updated reasonably frequently, a lot fewer that publish traffic charts for individual ports or peers. If you want granular data you have to know somebody who runs the core BGP stuff for a reasonably sized ISP, and you can ask them for redacted copies of charts.
    • nimos 8y ago
      A lot of them have stuff like total traffic over time under the statistics link. https://bgp.he.net/report/exchanges https://bgp.he.net/report/exchanges
    • Thaxll 8y ago
      https://ams-ix.net/technical/statistics https://ams-ix.net/technical/statistics
      • walrus01 8y ago
        Doesn't really show much of a change right now, nor does the aggregate chart for the SIX in Seattle. The largest downstream/eyeball networks that take Youtube traffic do it via PNIs with them so you won't see that in an IX fabric traffic chart. For example the Google/Youtube AS exchanges traffic with Comcast directly by their own dedicated ports, no IX involved.
• gnanesh 8y ago
  Down in India as well.
• EpicEng 8y ago
  Yep, me too. Was just trying to figure out if it was just me and reloaded the page here to check my connection.
• deleted 8y ago
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• corodra 8y ago
  We should all develop a song to remember and never forget this day.
  • MissionControl 8y ago
    A long long time ago, I can still remember how those videos used to make me smile... (Take it)
    • baking 8y ago
      And I knew if I had my pick, that I could make those people click, and maybe they'd be happy for a while
      • baking 8y ago
        or "And I knew if I was slick, ..."
      • itronitron 8y ago
        subscribers want me to deliver another video with facts and figures
    • MissionControl 8y ago
      But October made me quiver, with every UDP packet I'd deliver- bad JS on the door-step, the DOM couldn't take one more step
  • shams93 8y ago
    Said bye bye and pew pew die the drives in the levy but the drive got fried the good old boys are drinking whiskey and rye singing this the day that YouTube died
• jxramos 8y ago
  Roger that. “Invalid response received.”
• apetresc 8y ago
  Interestingly, my youtube-dl archiving script is still chugging along with only a handful of elevated retry rates. So whatever the problem is, it's probably not at the API or CDN layers.
  • ethbro 8y ago
    Both m.youtube.com & the mobile app are down.
    • billh 8y ago
      Along with their live TV product, tv.youtube.com
  • a012 8y ago
    The static contents are still available so it must be problem in their application. Strange that is down world wide, not a region. But, then Google likes to make things as a whole, ie. Spanner database.
  • deusofnull 8y ago
    isn't it also strange that the shadow of their ui components are still loading?
    • rafaquintanilha 8y ago
      Not really, this is done client-side.
    • LeoPanthera 8y ago
      They're generic templates to make you think the page is loading faster than it is. They don't represent the content that eventually (normally) shows up.
  • Obi_Juan_Kenobi 8y ago
    I was able to finish watching a video on my phone, and it definitely hadn't buffered all of it yet, so some servers must still be able to handle requests for videos.
• em3rgent0rdr 8y ago
  Well...this is a good excuse for me to setup a PeerTube mirror for my YouTube channel.
• penguhooks1 8y ago
  Monkeys are working on it
  • RandomGuyDTB 8y ago
    500 of them?
    • ChristianGeek 8y ago
      503 of them.
  • penguooks 8y ago
    Should start working when 303 leave and 200 remain
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• mml 8y ago
  my aws-based builds just went from 5.5m to > 15m about when this started. aws issue?
  • riknos314 8y ago
    Youtube is owned by Google (since 2008). Would be highly surprised if they hosted anything on aws
    • mml 8y ago
      A company like google would never rely on just a single company like google! /s
  • 9wzYQbTYsAIc 8y ago
    All greens according to https://status.aws.amazon.com/ https://status.aws.amazon.com/
  • tdy721 8y ago
    everybody just started working
• lettergram 8y ago
  I just went to post this - it does appear so: http://downrightnow.com/youtube http://downrightnow.com/youtube
• hello123456789 8y ago
  I’m glad I just finished all of youtube
• hello123456789 8y ago
  I’m glad I finished the last YouTube video...ever
• mitchtbaum 8y ago
  Watch "Let's de-Google-ify the Internet" on PeerTube https://peer.mathdacloud.ovh/videos/watch/c193a2f6-8b24-48c3-a93e-f89bd71cad42 https://peer.mathdacloud.ovh/videos/watch/c193a2f6-8b24-48c3... https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances
  • kiostech 8y ago
    https://d.tube/ https://d.tube/
    • bepvte 8y ago
      Opened it up, saw a foot fetish video on the front page.
      • deleted 8y ago
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      • ASalazarMX 8y ago
        It's like old Youtube then.
        • djsumdog 8y ago
          Or like random network shares on the University dorm network.
        • jhabdas 8y ago
          Not until it learns your specific for fetish them shows your kids on NewPipe.
    • fl0wenol 8y ago
      Everything on there looks like a scam or those 5-minute lifehack compilations where you lose a finger if you tried them yourself.
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• corodra 8y ago
  Are we going to start a betting pool as to why? I put $20 on DDoS, but I'm hedging $5 that someone spilled their drink on something important and quickly got out of there before anyone noticed.
  • epx 8y ago
    The janitor needed that socket to plug the vacuum
    • 706f6f70 8y ago
      Experimental Roomba built up a static charge and fried something important.
  • Escapado 8y ago
    Wouldn't DDoS be incredibly hard to pull off given YouTubes vast resources? I mean they generate so much traffic all the time and serve so many requests a second I don't know if botnets of that size exist. Anyone here more knowledgeable?
    • corodra 8y ago
      Would it involve hitting whoever/whatever handles their DNS like that one attack about a year ago? FYI: I legit am retarded to such things and my networking knowledge is...meh. So please correct me.
      • orangepenguin 8y ago
        DNS is resolving because people can get to the site. Because of the distributed nature of YouTube's resources (at DNS as well as other layers), it's very unlikely to be DDoS related. Static content loads, but video content doesn't. Seems like an application error, or a problem with media streaming infrastructure.
    • deusofnull 8y ago
      Yeah i feel like a DDoS that big would be afecting other google services right now...
• nodesocket 8y ago
  I have YouTube TV... No TV for me.
• Globz 8y ago
  Do they encrypt the server side error stack trace? 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): APkpgMWbWQ3LvimPoFynDB0W8VeUJ9ECiPcDCm8L0Qiku1I2TbAShWp- taKn-AzOGigwq0sU4oe9mbWb2Bwv4BK37C5xOAL7qm11fHn4L0swqhLk wbcnyKH2HM3AQNf-ucVsolyigJTNKA2SSNUMVZnDPmfsFH7ecKkpQmNi VGWhtXypv0zJyz9d_mpkgMoONtIrPUA4imxK-gNnE-_WQWQZNJm0CTae slJVC-TYgnvOZ9AYp6nodeUNpCoGspWaJVXn_ZSxy-71oGdlkCqWs6AY 2wmIEKe8eeAMqwkTHZNHkbAaH-fxWE_WDPuG-q7AFbOz8jZCFD06MYgf obFUSaH6B7PUdBFwVvjEaTD34J8PVhZTIJziRK-9-wSHOI6Vwf1lTuFe X0m52abRMW1VJaZB3taHK09kFT8Lv546OPhsL0Bn70UIs2durkAAYe4Z ...
  • meowface 8y ago
    Yes, they do. Pretty clever idea, I think.
    • Globz 8y ago
      Yes I agree, encrypting the stack trace enable them to share sensitive server side error codes to the client which in return can be easily reported back without having to explain anything or try to decode cryptic custom error messages. This is fantastic!
      • agumonkey 8y ago
        Also probably a unique hash too
      • jtchang 8y ago
        I actually thought it was a bit jarring. Mostly because I don't know what personal information it might be collecting and having me send them.
        • shawnz 8y ago
          Well, it's information collected at the server side. So if they really wanted they could just store the data and give you a code, but that would require more storage on their end.
• hello123456789 8y ago
  I’m glad I finished all of youtube
• knaik94 8y ago
  Youtube-dl is also not working surprisingly. It's crazy how I still assumed it was my network and not youtube. Speaks to how much I depend and rely on youtube being available as a staple in my life. For me the error just says webpage is unavailable. I am in NJ so east coast has a large outage probably.
  • jen729w 8y ago
    Melbourne, Australia here reporting a home page which loads with blank placeholder content. 2018-10-17 12:52. Edit: one minute later, content and images load but videos do not. Edit: back to placeholder home page.
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  • jordache 8y ago
    Ha I thought my Chrome had some hanging process that resulted in js engine error. So I switched to Safari and same error...
  • Nutomic 8y ago
    I tried my phone, laptop and remote server and nothing worked. But I still thought it was a problem with the video until I read it on Mastodon.
• JonasJSchreiber 8y ago
  Yep, that's what I'm seeing. I also came directly to HN to see if others were, and this is the top thread. Well done HN!
• mablae 8y ago
  Maybe related to the #libssl CVE ?
• helalctgbd 8y ago
  Here in bangladesh too... YouTube not working ... very surprising ...
• ggregoire 8y ago
  Any idea how much money they are going to lose?
• grawprog 8y ago
  I get a 503 network error on the mobile app from western canada right now. NewPipe will complete searches but gives a content not found error on trying to load a video.
• typon 8y ago
  I'm imagining millions of kids in restaurants crying out because their "iPads aren't working"
  • mikesickler 8y ago
    My son is having "a moment"
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    • Asparagirl 8y ago
      Mine too. He’s so confused and mournful.
    • mcs_ 8y ago
      Mine is sleeping, I was ready to enjoy the new justforfunc episode... I'm the one that is crying...
    • acct1771 8y ago
      ....
  • djmips 8y ago
    I fear something terrible has happened.
    • agumonkey 8y ago
      As if a million minds were screaming in terror from the sudden free thinking time.
      • jeannekamikaze 8y ago
        I have just come to realise that there is no point in life without purpose. Edit: It's back!
• smilbandit 8y ago
  back up and with a new youtube music streaming service ad I haven't seen before.
• hello123456789 8y ago
  99 percent of my battery life is used on you tube. Now it will be 2 percent safari. Nooooooooooooo
• mihir1991 8y ago
  YouTube not working for me
• xxs 8y ago
  Inaccessible from Europe, 3am UTC
• headsoup 8y ago
  Issue with Google AMP CDN?
• 51Cards 8y ago
  New Boston Dynamics dancing robot video launched today is probably to blame. :) (and if you haven't seen it now you have something to look forward to when Youtube comes back)
  • Fjolsvith 8y ago
    Ghost of the dancing baby.
  • brink 8y ago
    Or you can view it now https://twitter.com/YouTube/status/1052213813108453377 https://twitter.com/YouTube/status/1052213813108453377
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• stevespang 8y ago
  Yes, You Tube down for me in Austin
• tabascco 8y ago
  Don't worry. A team of monkeys is working on it
• zippie 8y ago
  Hacker News is up for me. In all seriousness, YouTube music and videos are down for me in California.
• YongMan 8y ago
  Down for me.
• MittensKittens 8y ago
  I have tested the status of youtube to confirm if it is still down and it is T.T https://snippet.uilicious.com/test/public/RuGwPjbwFX1QU5EVhvNHZu https://snippet.uilicious.com/test/public/RuGwPjbwFX1QU5EVhv...
• myrandomcomment 8y ago
  Well I was trying to load a video on YouTube a second ago and searched worked but the video said "error tap to retry". I opened HN to verify my internet and saw this. So it's broken for some of us ;)
• tomkin 8y ago
  My wife says: "they probably ran out of space on their server"
  • baolongtrann 8y ago
    Oh she knows
  • mindcrime 8y ago
    Probably because the logs directory filled up...
  • KamiCrit 8y ago
    Insiders everywhere.
  • spike021 8y ago
    Ahhh, not enough monitoring and/or non-existent "disk space usage" alerting? Been there.
  • rconti 8y ago
    Just send her this (obligatory) https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
• tartoran 8y ago
  Still down east coast
• user20182019 8y ago
  Hi
• user20182019 8y ago
  RIP YouTube is down forever everyone RIP
• user20182019 8y ago
  RIP YOUTUBE
• user20182019 8y ago
  sad
• jovannytube 8y ago
  Guys when youtube comes back can y’all please support my channel and subscribe plz :) @JovannyTube
• ignaces 8y ago
  down in Los Angeles
• jovannytube 8y ago
  Guys when youtube comes back to normal can y’all do me a big favor and support my dream & my channel? Plz my YouTube name is JovannyTube
• omilu 8y ago
  I had a couple youtube tabs open from this morning, the videos still play and it's not cached, the videos are hours long. But any new videos aren't working.
  • burger_moon 8y ago
    Ya I was listening to a podcast on youtube that was over an hour and no issues until I clicked home to see something else afterwards.
• TheAceOfHearts 8y ago
  Let's speculate, how much money would you guys guess is being lost every minute of downtime?
  • elderK 8y ago
    A metric @!#$ton? :D
  • 6502nerdface 8y ago
    > Estimates for YouTube's annual revenue, nearly all of which still comes from ads, vary a fair amount. But many of the estimates are now above $10 billion. At different points, Bank of America and Mizuho forecast that YouTube would post 2017 revenue of $13 billion and $12 billion, respectively. And in February, Baird's Colin Sebastian estimated YouTube is doing around $15 billion in annual sales. [0] I think that works out to a bit more than $28k/minute. [0] https://www.thestreet.com/investing/youtube-might-be-worth-over-100-billion-14586599 https://www.thestreet.com/investing/youtube-might-be-worth-o...
• baccheion 8y ago
  ...I remember where I was...
• Lunar_Rose 8y ago
  This shit is weird, u can take my playstation u can even take my netflix but when u take youtube thats when things get serious, I just want my game grumps back
• phy6 8y ago
  Down in MD
• ClassAndBurn 8y ago
  Now we all get track how our user traffic increases when YouTube is down...
• rashthedude 8y ago
  Youtube is love...Youtube is life(or so we thought). R.I.P 2005 - 2018.
• kobayashi 8y ago
  I was setting up a new network and thought it was my settings! I've been driving myself mad for the last 45 minutes thinking that I had fudged up somewhere! Thank goodness for this post
  • ObsoleteNerd 8y ago
    It was working fine for me until the minute I hit Upload on a video. I was entirely convinced I'd had my account auto-banned or something, and was very confused/frustrated. Couldn't find any mention of it anywhere at that point, then this thread popped up. It's pretty telling that YouTube is so reliable, and Google is so horrible to their users, that my first instinct was that I got banned for no reason by some bot, rather than the site was broken.
    • O_H_E 8y ago
      This is what happens when one is the user be not the customer
• DonaldFisk 8y ago
  Down and out in London.
• mdani 8y ago
  Google search very slow / down for me. Anyone seeing the same?
• etaioinshrdlu 8y ago
  American Express is also down! https://www.americanexpress.com/ https://www.americanexpress.com/
  • LeoPanthera 8y ago
    A coincidence, I am willing to bet.
  • cliffdover 8y ago
    Working here.
  • taf2 8y ago
    clear your cookies and try again... they have a cookie bug that overflows and breaks their whole site all the time.
• plainOldText 8y ago
  I wonder how much each minute of downtime is worth in revenue numbers?
• Anonomoyboi 8y ago
  ripe yt nothing loads
• rajacombinator 8y ago
  New NSA/google patch gone wrong?
• userbinator 8y ago
  Very glad to see it's not just me. I was about to think they had a radical new redesign again with everything AJAX'd and decided to make it totally unusable in anything but the very very latest DRM-encumbered browser(s).
• mml 8y ago
  twitter noticed: https://twitter.com/hashtag/youtubeisdown https://twitter.com/hashtag/youtubeisdown
• anon7429 8y ago
  I thought Jimmy Dore or I got hellbanned from YT... nawh, just YT down. SRE's are proly eating dinner and fixing it rn.
• wolfpwner 8y ago
  Suddenly I have nothing to do at home..
  • Fjolsvith 8y ago
    Not me, I watch netflix, read HN while playing PWI and tinking with my Amiga CNet BBS running inside WinUAE.
  • mindcrime 8y ago
    Check the latest G+ updates? oh, wait...
• jesse15522 8y ago
  at least pornhub is still up
• jordache 8y ago
  probably an unhandled undefined error in the JS code.
• mineman22 8y ago
  yes
• mrsmee89 8y ago
  It's back!
  • theandrewbailey 8y ago
    Nope, not yet. 2:40 UTC/10:40pm EDT: up for me.
  • godelski 8y ago
    Just checked, not for me https://screenshots.firefox.com/xbO5zc86pso83oH8/www.youtube.com https://screenshots.firefox.com/xbO5zc86pso83oH8/www.youtube...
• MissionControl 8y ago
  If this was a code error it would have been rolled back by now... this is really bizarre. Theories?
• Nutomic 8y ago
  What a good time to learn about Peertube: https://joinpeertube.org https://joinpeertube.org
• vertline3 8y ago
  We take a special Joy when things break, I wonder if there is a word for that?
  • mastax 8y ago
    Shadenfreude?
    • vertline3 8y ago
      It's close, that's pleasure in someone else's misery? maybe it is the same thing after all? But I get this feeling when the power goes out too.
  • nitemice 8y ago
    Schadenfreude?
  • gniv 8y ago
    A made-up word and a nice video, now that YT is back up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqovm-Io2D0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqovm-Io2D0
    • vertline3 8y ago
      Wow! Yeah that feeling of the big storm
• siruncledrew 8y ago
  There's a bunch of engineers in some conference room right now probably going "oh shit...." while slowly accepting the impending doom of a late night at work.
• woranl 8y ago
  Did Google just decided to sunset YouTube?
  • _emacsomancer_ 8y ago
    Hardly anyone uses it. By Google standards, I mean.
  • onychomys 8y ago
    They probably have some similar yet slightly worse product that they've decided to introduce instead. Such is the life of a google app.
    • woranl 8y ago
      The Google One experience? Make sense
    • Nition 8y ago
      We shall call it, Google Video.
  • Scoundreller 8y ago
    Family member said “did they take it down?” Maybe, and we’re not sure who “they” is yet.
  • zamadatix 8y ago
    They've decided to release the SeeYa and HearYa apps which let you watch video content and audio content separately so they can provide you with the most tuned experience. You can't use those in G-Suite though so still use YouTube there for now. Also YouTube Premium is immediately cancelled despite being popular and profit making.
• hugodahl 8y ago
  Fortunately, I still get to see a banner advertising their streaming music service, or to watch the World Series through Youtube. Nice to see their ad-service platform isn't impacted. /s
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• invisible 8y ago
  I wonder if this is a Vitess issue. It’s pretty unusual if so.
• artellectual 8y ago
  Look at all that work that’s going to get done now.
• AgentK20 8y ago
  And it's back!
  • deleted 8y ago
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  • cliffdover 8y ago
    Not for me.
  • euler_ 8y ago
    nope.
• biutthapa 8y ago
  Looks like it.
• peterwwillis 8y ago
  Unrelated, but on a recent network outage (https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/18016 https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/18...): The incident occurred while Google's network operations team was replacing the routers that link us-central1-c to Google's backbone that connects to the public internet. Google engineers paused the router replacement process after determining that additional cabling would be required to complete the process and decided to start a rollback operation. The rollout and rollback operations utilized a version of workflow that was only compatible with the newer routers. Specifically, rollback was not supported on the older routers. And the postmortem action item is: Fix the automated workflows for router replacements to ensure the correct version of workflows are utilized for both types of routers. The action items should have been "1) make this work for these two routers, and 2) make sure no platforms ever get left out again". This shouldn't have happened, because it should be standard practice to test both upgrade and rollback on all your gear. Network gear vendors do this as standard practice before they ship new gear with upgrade instructions. Google can throw together end-to-end automated tests of upgrades/rollbacks and refuse to perform maintenance until tests pass. The bigger postmortem question should be, why was the change allowed at all if the platform didn't support rollback? Additional action item: "3) don't allow changes if the platforms don't support and have successful rollback tests". Now, did they need to test rollback? Maybe they don't mind portions of CloudSQL, Spanner, Storage, BigTable, and AppEngine being down for 41 minutes in one zone. But if they're not even testing rollback for BGP changes, what else aren't they testing? ...Also, lol, they realized in the middle of an upgrade that they didn't have enough network cable? Maybe add an extra action item: "4) count how much network cable you have before you start replacing core routers"
  • trevyn 8y ago
    Spanner and Storage at least are region-wide, so a single AZ going down shouldn’t affect customers on those products.
• ki85squared 8y ago
  Interestingly, this article [1] mentions a 2008 YouTube outage caused by a BGP misconfig during an attempt to ban YouTube in Pakistan. Included is a screenshot similar to what we've seeing with this outage. Possibly related? [1] https://blog.cdemi.io/beginners-guide-to-understanding-bgp/ https://blog.cdemi.io/beginners-guide-to-understanding-bgp/
• MitchellCash 8y ago
  Some analysts predict YouTube to bring in $15 billion in ad revenue in 2018. If so, they are losing around $28,000 for every minute they are down.
  • pmart123 8y ago
    I think you meant $280,000?
    • usuallymatt 8y ago
      Nah, $28k - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=15%2C000%2C000%2C000+divided+by+525960&t=lm&ia=calculator https://duckduckgo.com/?q=15%2C000%2C000%2C000+divided+by+52...
      • ac29 8y ago
        https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=$15+billion+%2F+(minutes+in+a+year) https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=$15+billion+%2F+(minut...
      • pmart123 8y ago
        -1 on my mental math, +1 on duckduckgo's UI for arithmetic.
        • cjhopman 8y ago
          Google's is more impressive: https://www.google.com/search?q=15+billion+divided+by+minutes+per+year https://www.google.com/search?q=15+billion+divided+by+minute... Or even better: https://www.google.com/search?q=%2415+billion+per+year+in+dollars+per+minute https://www.google.com/search?q=%2415+billion+per+year+in+do...
    • euler_ 8y ago
      nah, I think 28,000 is right
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• mcantelon 8y ago
  Probably a good time to torrent what with the intertubes unburdened.
• kraig911 8y ago
  Thank god my daughter fell asleep before this happened. It'd be a long night.
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• quickthrower2 8y ago
  Think of the children!
• animex 8y ago
  Still down for me. Nothing is working. Loads and then the interface seems to blank itself out. App just generates playing ID errors.
• GaryDaniel92 8y ago
  i'm hungry, i wanna a cookie
• aviv 8y ago
  This seems to be GCP related. I know the status page is all green currently... but we have a lot of services using GCP products and some are failing and showing increased latency. Pubsub failures as well.
  • dabei 8y ago
    YouTube is not built on GCP.
    • aviv 8y ago
      Why would you assume this previously known tidbit to be true for the rest of Youtube's life?
• huslage 8y ago
  YouTube TV is throwing errors on the "Home" page, but the "Live" page is working fine. Some app-side issue, I guess.
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• HarryPirate 8y ago
  It's back! I've been refreshing every second - That must've fixed it.
• brickmort 8y ago
  I blame Shane Dawson
• Khelouiati 8y ago
  yes, i am from Algeria North africa
• weddpros 8y ago
  https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/id https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/id returns a very invalid json to me, starts with: )]}'
  • wesalvaro 8y ago
    That's just the common magic XSSI prefix for JSON.
• pasbesoin 8y ago
  Newly accessed videos started failing. Tabs/videos with partially played videos that were paused, continued to work. I went and made dinner.
• mindcrime 8y ago
  videolectures.net is still up, so if anybody is bored... Here's a good one: http://videolectures.net/mackay_course_01/ http://videolectures.net/mackay_course_01/
  • YesIndeed 8y ago
    David Mackay's videos and books (freely available) are all great. He was an excellent teacher, and doer.
• janee 8y ago
  Woke up randomly at 3am (utc+2). Opened HN. saw this ask HN Think I felt a great disturbance on the net and woke up, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly presented with a black screen on their YouTubes. I fear something terrible has happened
  • rohan1024 8y ago
    This exact same thing happened with me. I woke up at unusual time. Its working now though.
• ozaark 8y ago
  Imagine how many pages serving content, product demos, tutorials, etc are affected by this yt outage. Good case for hosting your own content/diversifying.
• abend 8y ago
  Gmail isn't working well either.
• un_montagnard 8y ago
  It's back up.
• zaxomi 8y ago
  It just started working for me again, in Sweden.
  • why_only_15 8y ago
    Same, in the US
• ASalazarMX 8y ago
  Right now the front page loaded, but no video played and a refresh went back to just placeholders.
  • kevingrahl 8y ago
    The UI is generated client-side
    • ASalazarMX 8y ago
      I meant it loaded completely, thumbnails and descriptions. It came back shortly after my comment and has responded as fast as ever since.
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• gundamhinew 8y ago
  Facebook definitely down. Youtube still fine.
• EamonnMR 8y ago
  Still not up here in Metro Boston. I eagerly await the (I assume) super interesting explanation of what went wrong tomorrow.
  • meddlepal 8y ago
    Back now in Boston.
• sircalvin 8y ago
  How many kids will be born in 9 month?
• qwerty15 8y ago
  qwerty
• z92 8y ago
  Looks like outage report itself is down too. https://outage.report/youtube https://outage.report/youtube
• deleted 8y ago
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• LeoPanthera 8y ago
  Looks like it's back now.
  • kencausey 8y ago
    Yep, I actually got my subscription list again and could continue the video that stopped playing when it went down.
• richardboegli 8y ago
  https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1052373937839980544 https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1052373937839980544
  • app4soft 8y ago
    @TeamYouTube's Twitter stream now fully overloaded with "apologize" and "we a working" tweets... Look like nobody will sleep now in YouTube HQ.
• jboggan 8y ago
  What I would give to read the postmortem and $$$ cost on this one.
• sjg007 8y ago
  Works fine for me, but I'm on a regional fiber provider.
• maxden 8y ago
  just tried and its working now
• wingworks 8y ago
  It's back up judging by Google Trends https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%204-H&q=youtube%20down https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%204-H&q=yo...
• fjordan 8y ago
  https://tv.youtube.com/ https://tv.youtube.com/ is also down
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• tpfour 8y ago
  It just came back online for me.
• ambicapter 8y ago
  Up for me now!
• stefanpl 8y ago
  And it's back!
• swozey 8y ago
  From Ops to Ops, much respect YouTube/Goog and a tremendous pat on the back to this even being such a big deal. I'll happily, but very-boredly, wait until you're done. :)
  • 0xFFFE 8y ago
    Kudos to the Ops team indeed, can't wait to read the PM report.
• rixrax 8y ago
  Looks like they're up again. :) Was that like a full hour of downtime. I hope they publish a postmortem. Like others have said, for me, Youtube has always been there. It is a odd feeling to have experienced [albeit shortly] internet sans Youtube [again].
• trumped 8y ago
  Just came back up for me...
• kevingrahl 8y ago
  Ha! My time to shine.. I’ve got somewhere around 80TB of YouTube content on my NAS including thousands of videos that aren’t available anymore on YouTube or anywhere else online. The joy of hoarding data..
  • cliffdover 8y ago
    80TB is a lot just to hoard data... I don't think I even like so many vids.
    • kevingrahl 8y ago
      Well.. I’ve got to have a selection for every occasion! But it’s not like I’ve watched every video I have, often I just download entire channels if I deem the content to be worthy for archiving.
      • hycaria 8y ago
        I bet we'll have tons of makeup channels then, right ?
        • kevingrahl 8y ago
          I’m a bearded, bald guy.. Not really my thing ;)
  • voltagex_ 8y ago
    I hope you've got plans for what happens to that content when you're not around any more. With how ephemeral a lot of content is on YouTube there's sure to be valuable videos on people's drives.
    • Rebelgecko 8y ago
      I've had a lot of luck with finding YouTube videos that disappeared via archive.org
• app4soft 8y ago
  All fixed now...
• dirtylowprofile 8y ago
  YouTube is back. Should be all back to normal.
• bredren 8y ago
  I'm curious what happens to Netflix and Amazon Prime Video during moments like this.
• samstave 8y ago
  Wow, so i was trying to watch a video on the train at 4:45pm pst and the video was all jacked and loading weird. I gave up and went on to something else... so that must have been an early symptom of the outage.
• S_A_P 8y ago
  I noticed this and my first thought was that my phone needed to reboot. Come on, Youtube doesn't go down... Then I went to a different site and realized it was an outage...
• lysium 8y ago
  They're back online https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1052393799815589889 https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1052393799815589889
• thrower123 8y ago
  If YouTube can go down, I feel less bad about my crappy code derping out in production once in a while...
• css 8y ago
  First thing I see on their Twitter page are fake verified Youtube accounts perpetuating some Crypto scam: https://i.imgur.com/PkEbjH5.png https://i.imgur.com/PkEbjH5.png
  • qwertay 8y ago
    Typical scam. Problem is verified accounts can change names so scammers steal details for random verified accounts and then use them to pretend to be high profile accounts.
• mito88 8y ago
  is it black? :)
• godelmachine 8y ago
  Has YouTube published their outage postmortem?