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YouTube is down
- aquadrop 13y agoAnd it's down already for about 10 minutes at least.
- meerita 13y agoIt's down here overseas too :)
- seanp2k2 13y ago+1; getting their 500 page with some info that looks like it's base64 encoded, but it doesn't decode to anything useful running it through `echo -n '[...]' |base64 -d` . Any ideas what format that is?
- VMG 13y agocould easily be encrypted data
- cdodd 13y agoIt's probably an encrypted stacktrace
- nwh 13y agoI'm going with everybody else, it's an encrypted stack trace. Every reload is entirely different rather than small portions changing, so we can assume it's something like AES rather than a simple XOR. If it were a simpler encoding we would see largely similar areas with just small sections changed for server IDs and timestamps. The distribution of the data is for all intents random, and it's too big to be an identifier on it's own, so that's the only logical explanation I can come up with.
- benmmurphy 13y agothe decoded data has a frequency distribution similar to random output so probably encrypted :) maybe that did something lolzy like stream cipher with the same key.
- kroo 13y agoIt looks like it's a url-safe base64 encoding of an encrypted blob (perhaps a stack trace). They're using '-', and '_' instead of '/' and '+'. Replace these characters and base64 will succeed, leaving with ~3k bytes randomly distributed between 0x00 and 0xFF.
- yeukhon 13y agoI am confused why they need to include that if there is little customer support.
- scott_karana 13y agoI believe it's a pre-Google legacy. I seem to remember seeing it a few times back in the day.
- yeukhon 13y agoInteresting. If this is the case, then there must be a good reason not to stop rendering that. I am also curious if each server has its own private key or not. Anyhow, thanks for the info.
- steeve 13y agoThe only sane reaction: http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/166182/its-just-gone http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/166182/its-just-gone
- meerita 13y agoI just rolled to the floor. I love South Park.
- cdodd 13y agoYup, http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/youtube.com http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/youtube.com
- kunai 13y agoPerhaps they're working on some changes to the much-despised commenting system. Either way, this is an interesting development.... one that will have interesting outcomes at the least. I'll be disappointed if this is just a normal service outage.
- chris_mahan 13y agoSomeone deactivated YouTube's G+ account?
- SuperChihuahua 13y agoBut some (not all) embedded youtube videos are still working!
- ghostjedi 13y ago+1. Can we continue our lives without Youtube? For how long?
- chadrs 13y agoOffice productivity explodes.
- dag11 13y agoIt's back.
- chrislomax 13y agoIt's only some pages here (UK), I can see the homepage and some videos.
- chrislomax 13y agoAnd now it's back on for me
- sotoer 13y agoIt's down due to too few G+ comments. Youtube needs a minimum amount of a-hole comments in order to survive.
- ravinder 13y agoTheir apis look to be down too http://www.outageanalyzer.com/?id=4080618 http://www.outageanalyzer.com/?id=4080618
- nameless_noob 13y agoBack up now.
- swansw 13y agoI don't think the APIs are down. http://fixyt.com http://fixyt.com (submitted to HN 3 days ago) is working for me.
- EB5 13y agoIt´s not down completely. Sometimes it loads. Seems to me like their DB is not reachable from all their webservers.. Or perhaps they did push a fix that has not reached all fo their webservers yet. EDIT: now (few minutes later)it loads just fine, seems the fix had to be pushed to all servers and thats why it sometimes loads and sometimes it doesn`t
- gygygy 13y agoCame across this same issue a few days ago, but it lasted for just 3-4 minutes.
- anonymfus 13y agoMetrotube still works, as probably other clients not based on web version.
- ChuckMcM 13y agogone are the days when you could send it /quitquitquit sadly.