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Ask HN: Why do so many post that YouTube is down?
Title pretty much says it all but to expand a little, YouTube was down recently and I saw at least half a dozen posts to HN along the lines of "YouTube is down" - including one that was on the front page with ~50 points.
Is a service interruption in YouTube (or any service) really that noteworthy? Is there a benefit to posting/discussing on HN when YouTube is down? If YouTube is down people will obviously figure that out when/if they try to access it - everyone else is unaffected by such an outage so we don't gain much by knowing about it.
- gygygy 13y agoA site like you-tube rarely goes down, and when it does happen I'm sure anyone would wonder if they are the only one.
- lutusp 13y ago> Is a service interruption in YouTube (or any service) really that noteworthy? To answer, we need to discuss the context in which such comments appear. What other comments would be displaced by comments about the state of YouTube? How about comments about comments about the state of YouTube -- comments like yours? Or how about comments about comments about comments about the state of YouTube -- comments like mine? > ... everyone else is unaffected by such an outage so we don't gain much by knowing about it. You might have thought of that before posting.