Ask HN: YouTube down? • Hacker News Board

knaik94 wrote: post #111

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.

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.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by walrus01 » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:52 AM UTC

Thaxll wrote: post #132

suls wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is any of this info publicly available anywhere?

https://ams-ix.net/technical/statistics

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.

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Post by DoreenMichele » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:52 AM UTC

RandomGuyDTB wrote: post #128

DoreenMichele wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Let's make sure to make this the next stanza ;)

Where were you when YouTube died?
On HN, of course.
Putting off dealing with my divorce.

And wishing Paul Allen were still alive.

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Post by a012 » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:53 AM UTC

apetresc wrote: post #80

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.

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.

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Post by baking » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:53 AM UTC

MissionControl wrote: post #99

corodra wrote: post #77

We should all develop a song to remember and never forget this day.

A long long time ago, I can still remember how those videos used to make me smile... (Take it)

And I knew if I had my pick, that I could make those people click, and maybe they'd be happy for a while

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Post by YongMan » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:53 AM UTC

Down for me.

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Post by ben174 » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:53 AM UTC

sarim wrote: post #58

I have never seen Youtube not work. Ever. This is a special moment. Glad you are all here to share it with me :)

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.

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Post by apetresc » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:53 AM UTC

relaunched wrote: post #76

bitdeep wrote: post #33

Child getting crazy with @youtube down. LoL, they don't understand that services can get offline. #youtubeisdown

I'm trying to explain it to a very distraught 2.5 year old.

Tell them YouTube is sleeping. My toddler explains every sort of absence as whatever it is (inanimate or otherwise) sleeping.