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YouTube Experiencing Issues

83 points by joenathanone 5y ago

spizzle 5y ago
Can’t watch the basketball on YouTube tv right now
joenathanone 5y ago
Didn’t realize how much I depend on YouTube until now…
ergot_vacation 5y ago
Seems to be pretty widespread: All the usual ISPs (Cox, Comcast, Spectrum etc), Google itself, reddit, and even Twitter all seem to be showing the same spike. Wonder what's causing this one. To be clear, Youtube isn't fully down (at least for me), but it's slow and unstable enough to effectively be unusable. I've been getting error codes in the middle of videos, something I haven't seen in months, if not years.
- andrewstuart2 5y ago
  So given the graphs of basically everything spiking on the downdetector home page, are we saying it's basically a majority of internet hiccuping?
  - MisterSandman 5y ago
    Actually, isn't downdetector.ca a user-reported thing? So I imagine a ton of people were having issues with YouTube and thought it was their ISP (I know I did, I first checked speedtest-cli and the downdetector for Rogers)
    - ergot_vacation 5y ago
      This is a good point, and the disadvantage of crowd-sourcing it. There's no actual network analysis going on on DownDetector, so there's definitely room for some confusion if people blame the wrong thing. That said, the info here: http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm definitely seems to suggest something beyond just youtube.
      - MisterSandman 5y ago
        It is a disadvantage, but it's also the best down detector there is. I think there are a couple of others that just ping websites to see if they're up, and very few websites actually go down down nowadays. Downdetector.com is meant to be an instantaneous sanity check of whether you should go unplug your router for the 3rd time today or not, and it's pretty great at that, even if it exaggerates a bit.
- teeray 5y ago
  Total speculation, but it kind of feels like a BGP thing
  - ergot_vacation 5y ago
    That would be my amateur guess, but who knows. Way back in the day (2003 maybe?) there used to be a site called "Internet Health Report" or something similar where you could check all the interconnects between the major backbone networks when something like this happened. Sadly that's long gone, and I haven't seen anything similar since. EDIT: This seems to be the best we've got now: http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm. Lot of 0s on there ATM.
  - andrewstuart2 5y ago
    Routing protocols or some supporting protocols are about all I can think of that would have that kind of potential.
- trinovantes 5y ago
  If it's this many unrelated services, it might be a BGP hijack
- LeoPanthera 5y ago
  That always seems to happen on downdetector but all of the other services listed as having problems seem to be working fine for me. Except YouTube.
  - andrewstuart2 5y ago
    Could be that packet loss and retransmission might be more noticeable when you have large data streams?
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jameson 5y ago
I've lost my purpose in life
- ergot_vacation 5y ago
  You jest, but a lot of the friendly niche stuff on Youtube has been a bright spot for me for several years now, even more once the pandemic happened. I'll watch cool, quiet videos of a train plowing its way across snow-covered country in Switzerland to chill out, friendly low-key gaming streams to hang out in chat, long form documentaries on all kinds of cool stuff when I'm more awake, and on and on. Youtube is one of the few places left online with SOME content that's just chill and friendly. Hopefully it comes back soon.
  - iandanforth 5y ago
    Links please. :)
    - ergot_vacation 5y ago
      Norway (my mistake) train cam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-imG6CNF9kI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-imG6CNF9kI. There are a ton of these. Not quite as pretty now, as the snow is largely melted, but still lovely countryside, especially if you catch the early morning stuff. Gaming streams are as numerous as stars in the sky. I prefer to watch after the fact (lose the interaction, but easier to skip around), and generally like the people that are hanging out with their chat and telling great stories and anecdotes rather that doing super competitive stuff. For that, Vinny from the Vinesauce group is pretty great: he's got both an edited down "best of" youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/vinesauce https://www.youtube.com/user/vinesauce) and a full stream archive channel(https://www.youtube.com/user/vinesaucefullsauce https://www.youtube.com/user/vinesaucefullsauce). VTubers are also a whole wild crazy phenomenon unto themselves, and while I don't usually watch full streams, some of the highlights from some of them (Korone especially) are pretty great if you're of the right persuasion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUaJGcdiOt0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUaJGcdiOt0). There's also an ENORMOUS creative fan culture around them: art, games, and some pretty slick remixes(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42QhdIradBc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42QhdIradBc). As for long form docus, I highly recommend EmpLemon. The guy went from making YoutubePoops to doing incredible, well-researched pieces on a number of things, and his magnum opus is "there will Never Ever be another driver like Dale Earnhardt" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxTAJNifDAI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxTAJNifDAI). You may think you don't give a shit about Dale Earnhardt. You will change your mind by the end of the video.
b0afc375b5 5y ago
My initial thought was it was my crappy internet again. Kept rebooting the modem/router until I realized other sites were fine.
KT-222 5y ago
I had never heard of them before tonight, but the line graphs under each logo on their home page are well done. "It's not just me. It's not just youtube. It's everything" https://downdetector.com/ https://downdetector.com/
bazeblackwood 5y ago
I was watching a great video about how Jeff Beck achieves his signature sound, now I'm stuck here with you lot
- ergot_vacation 5y ago
  I was watching a guy construct ever more elaborate versions of Ninja Warrior courses for his backyard squirrels.
  - bazeblackwood 5y ago
    That sounds awesome—what's the channel name?
    - dfcowell 5y ago
      Sounds like Mark Rober to me.
      - ergot_vacation 5y ago
        Correct! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTvS9lvRxZ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTvS9lvRxZ8)
- LeoPanthera 5y ago
  I was watching a live camera overlooking a railway line in Tokyo and now I have no idea if it's still raining there or not.
  - dfcowell 5y ago
    It is. Source: asked my colleagues who are in Tokyo.
    - LeoPanthera 5y ago
      Much appreciated. :)
pedroma 5y ago
Finally, those downloaded videos on my phone are coming in handy.
LeoPanthera 5y ago
This happened immediately after the YouTube app on my Apple TV self-updated so for a short while I believed it was the new app that was broken. Every time Google changes the Apple TV app it gets worse. The very first version was a native app, since then they've all been various horrible HTML apps.
mbroncano 5y ago
Seems to be back!
- ergot_vacation 5y ago
  Still choking on anything higher than 360p for me.
thrusong 5y ago
Experiencing playback stuttering and other issues in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
- swader999 5y ago
  My condolences.
  - thrusong 5y ago
    Just reporting how widespread the issue was. Don't know why you have to be snarky and rude.
40four 5y ago
Interesting, it’s not just me! Haha I thought my internet was acting up tonight, but apparently not. YouTube was being very unstable tonight for sure. Videos cutting to infinite loading spinner in the middle, or not playing at all, intermittently.
oh_sigh 5y ago
Is Google Photos subject to the same issues? I shared a video with a friend 2 hours ago, and they could only watch the first 5 seconds before it pausing forever. Same thing happened with me when I tied to reproduce the issue.
LyalinDotCom 5y ago
I was having issues earlier today (in the last two hours) but it has resolved itself for me at least.
a1369209993 5y ago
FWIW, youtube-dl[0] seems to be working fine, and is still better than first-party use for all the usual reasons like enforced bitrot. 0: http://youtube-dl.org/ http://youtube-dl.org/
pontifier 5y ago
That's really weird. I pointed one of my domains at a YouTube video around the same time this seems to have started. Probably totally unrelated.

83 points by joenathanone 5y ago

spizzle 5y ago

Can’t watch the basketball on YouTube tv right now

joenathanone 5y ago

Didn’t realize how much I depend on YouTube until now…

ergot_vacation 5y ago

Seems to be pretty widespread: All the usual ISPs (Cox, Comcast, Spectrum etc), Google itself, reddit, and even Twitter all seem to be showing the same spike. Wonder what's causing this one. To be clear, Youtube isn't fully down (at least for me), but it's slow and unstable enough to effectively be unusable. I've been getting error codes in the middle of videos, something I haven't seen in months, if not years.

andrewstuart2 5y ago
So given the graphs of basically everything spiking on the downdetector home page, are we saying it's basically a majority of internet hiccuping?
- MisterSandman 5y ago
  Actually, isn't downdetector.ca a user-reported thing? So I imagine a ton of people were having issues with YouTube and thought it was their ISP (I know I did, I first checked speedtest-cli and the downdetector for Rogers)
  - ergot_vacation 5y ago
    This is a good point, and the disadvantage of crowd-sourcing it. There's no actual network analysis going on on DownDetector, so there's definitely room for some confusion if people blame the wrong thing. That said, the info here: http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm definitely seems to suggest something beyond just youtube.
    - MisterSandman 5y ago
      It is a disadvantage, but it's also the best down detector there is. I think there are a couple of others that just ping websites to see if they're up, and very few websites actually go down down nowadays. Downdetector.com is meant to be an instantaneous sanity check of whether you should go unplug your router for the 3rd time today or not, and it's pretty great at that, even if it exaggerates a bit.
teeray 5y ago
Total speculation, but it kind of feels like a BGP thing
- ergot_vacation 5y ago
  That would be my amateur guess, but who knows. Way back in the day (2003 maybe?) there used to be a site called "Internet Health Report" or something similar where you could check all the interconnects between the major backbone networks when something like this happened. Sadly that's long gone, and I haven't seen anything similar since. EDIT: This seems to be the best we've got now: http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm. Lot of 0s on there ATM.
- andrewstuart2 5y ago
  Routing protocols or some supporting protocols are about all I can think of that would have that kind of potential.
trinovantes 5y ago
If it's this many unrelated services, it might be a BGP hijack
LeoPanthera 5y ago
That always seems to happen on downdetector but all of the other services listed as having problems seem to be working fine for me. Except YouTube.
- andrewstuart2 5y ago
  Could be that packet loss and retransmission might be more noticeable when you have large data streams?

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jameson 5y ago

I've lost my purpose in life

ergot_vacation 5y ago
You jest, but a lot of the friendly niche stuff on Youtube has been a bright spot for me for several years now, even more once the pandemic happened. I'll watch cool, quiet videos of a train plowing its way across snow-covered country in Switzerland to chill out, friendly low-key gaming streams to hang out in chat, long form documentaries on all kinds of cool stuff when I'm more awake, and on and on. Youtube is one of the few places left online with SOME content that's just chill and friendly. Hopefully it comes back soon.
- iandanforth 5y ago
  Links please. :)
  - ergot_vacation 5y ago
    Norway (my mistake) train cam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-imG6CNF9kI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-imG6CNF9kI. There are a ton of these. Not quite as pretty now, as the snow is largely melted, but still lovely countryside, especially if you catch the early morning stuff. Gaming streams are as numerous as stars in the sky. I prefer to watch after the fact (lose the interaction, but easier to skip around), and generally like the people that are hanging out with their chat and telling great stories and anecdotes rather that doing super competitive stuff. For that, Vinny from the Vinesauce group is pretty great: he's got both an edited down "best of" youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/vinesauce https://www.youtube.com/user/vinesauce) and a full stream archive channel(https://www.youtube.com/user/vinesaucefullsauce https://www.youtube.com/user/vinesaucefullsauce). VTubers are also a whole wild crazy phenomenon unto themselves, and while I don't usually watch full streams, some of the highlights from some of them (Korone especially) are pretty great if you're of the right persuasion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUaJGcdiOt0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUaJGcdiOt0). There's also an ENORMOUS creative fan culture around them: art, games, and some pretty slick remixes(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42QhdIradBc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42QhdIradBc). As for long form docus, I highly recommend EmpLemon. The guy went from making YoutubePoops to doing incredible, well-researched pieces on a number of things, and his magnum opus is "there will Never Ever be another driver like Dale Earnhardt" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxTAJNifDAI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxTAJNifDAI). You may think you don't give a shit about Dale Earnhardt. You will change your mind by the end of the video.

b0afc375b5 5y ago

My initial thought was it was my crappy internet again. Kept rebooting the modem/router until I realized other sites were fine.

KT-222 5y ago

I had never heard of them before tonight, but the line graphs under each logo on their home page are well done. "It's not just me. It's not just youtube. It's everything" https://downdetector.com/ https://downdetector.com/

bazeblackwood 5y ago

I was watching a great video about how Jeff Beck achieves his signature sound, now I'm stuck here with you lot

ergot_vacation 5y ago
I was watching a guy construct ever more elaborate versions of Ninja Warrior courses for his backyard squirrels.
- bazeblackwood 5y ago
  That sounds awesome—what's the channel name?
  - dfcowell 5y ago
    Sounds like Mark Rober to me.
    - ergot_vacation 5y ago
      Correct! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTvS9lvRxZ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTvS9lvRxZ8)
LeoPanthera 5y ago
I was watching a live camera overlooking a railway line in Tokyo and now I have no idea if it's still raining there or not.
- dfcowell 5y ago
  It is. Source: asked my colleagues who are in Tokyo.
  - LeoPanthera 5y ago
    Much appreciated. :)

pedroma 5y ago

Finally, those downloaded videos on my phone are coming in handy.

LeoPanthera 5y ago

This happened immediately after the YouTube app on my Apple TV self-updated so for a short while I believed it was the new app that was broken. Every time Google changes the Apple TV app it gets worse. The very first version was a native app, since then they've all been various horrible HTML apps.

mbroncano 5y ago

Seems to be back!

ergot_vacation 5y ago
Still choking on anything higher than 360p for me.

thrusong 5y ago

Experiencing playback stuttering and other issues in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

swader999 5y ago
My condolences.
- thrusong 5y ago
  Just reporting how widespread the issue was. Don't know why you have to be snarky and rude.

40four 5y ago

Interesting, it’s not just me! Haha I thought my internet was acting up tonight, but apparently not. YouTube was being very unstable tonight for sure. Videos cutting to infinite loading spinner in the middle, or not playing at all, intermittently.

oh_sigh 5y ago

Is Google Photos subject to the same issues? I shared a video with a friend 2 hours ago, and they could only watch the first 5 seconds before it pausing forever. Same thing happened with me when I tied to reproduce the issue.

LyalinDotCom 5y ago

I was having issues earlier today (in the last two hours) but it has resolved itself for me at least.

a1369209993 5y ago

FWIW, youtube-dl[0] seems to be working fine, and is still better than first-party use for all the usual reasons like enforced bitrot. 0: http://youtube-dl.org/ http://youtube-dl.org/

pontifier 5y ago

That's really weird. I pointed one of my domains at a YouTube video around the same time this seems to have started. Probably totally unrelated.