Ask HN: YouTube down? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

#181

Post by TheAceOfHearts » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:56 AM UTC

Let's speculate, how much money would you guys guess is being lost every minute of downtime?

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

#182

Post by baccheion » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:56 AM UTC

...I remember where I was...

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

#183

Post by AceJohnny2 » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:56 AM UTC

corodra wrote: post #102

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.

> I put $20 on DDoS

I'd take you on that, except I have no anonymized payment account. Otherwise, I'd bet $100 that it's not.

Only Google has the scale to DDoS Google.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

#184

Post by rafaquintanilha » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:56 AM UTC

deusofnull wrote: post #154

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.

isn't it also strange that the shadow of their ui components are still loading?

Not really, this is done client-side.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

#185

Post by baccheion » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:58 AM UTC

ben174 wrote: post #149

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.

Internet sites go down all the time, though usually not for long or en masse.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

#186

Post by mrkstu » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:58 AM UTC

vitobeto wrote: post #52

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.

YoutubeTV down too. Big footprint outage.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

#187

Post by Lunar_Rose » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:58 AM UTC

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

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

#188

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:58 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 :)

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Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

#189

Post by phy6 » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:59 AM UTC

Down in MD

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

#190

Post by corodra » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:59 AM UTC

__george__ wrote: post #167

corodra wrote: post #102

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.

I bet it’s a core network issue since it went down globally at the same time.. they deploy new binaries slowly so that shouldn’t cause it. Maybe some config was changed without testing?

A. You're not being fun.

2. Good point.

III. One thing I did notice. I had some other videos in other tabs. They still loaded through. I could skip around and it streamed in video like nothing was wrong. When I refresh, bust.

Quatre: Five......