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Re: YouTube Down

#161

Post by xivusr » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 1:24 AM UTC

zzapplezz wrote: post #44

IT'S BACK

Down in eastern Washington still..

Re: YouTube Down

#162

Post by LargoLasskhyfv » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 1:25 AM UTC

Oh! And I thought it was something with my setup. Didn't want to fiddle with it atm, and just closed it. Phew! :)

Re: YouTube Down

#163

Post by rasz » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 1:25 AM UTC

redirector.googlevideo.com/videoplayback works again, but it looks like they just lost metadata servers. No metadata loads on video pages, but if you happen to have pages opened from the time they still worked you can play videos fine.

EDIT: and its all back up to working

Re: YouTube Down

#164

Post by justicezyx » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 1:26 AM UTC

Gmail mails cannot be loaded either. While the frontpage seems working.

Re: YouTube Down

#165

Post by lovelyviking » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 1:27 AM UTC

herpderperator wrote: post #101

I have a 2-hour-long YouTube video still open, it's continuing to load as I continue to watch it without issues, but new videos aren't working. That's an interesting clue: the CDN isn't down as some people are implying. Edit 45 min later: Everything appears to be working again, including YouTube TV.

Also long video 2.5hrs. Still plays after rebooting router, closing and reopening browser

Re: YouTube Down

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Post by soheil » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 1:27 AM UTC

byteshock wrote: post #94

soheil wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also plus the cost of losing users due to long term adverse effects of this incident.

I don’t think anyone is going to stop using YouTube because of a small downtime. There is really no alternative to it out there.

What about the new users visiting the site for the 1st time in that small downtime window? If their first experience sucks there is likelihood they won't come back.

So:

(number of new users) x (probability of those users not coming back) x (lifetime value of a youtube user) = I highly doubt this is equal to 0

Re: YouTube Down

#167

Post by grumple » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 1:27 AM UTC

karmakaze wrote: post #155

I know there's a whole "infrastructure as code" and "immutable infrastructure" thing happening, but how about "revertible"?

If your infrastructure is codified, you should be using versioning for it as well.

Re: YouTube Down

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Post by Kye » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 1:27 AM UTC

Could this be related to people running a Takeout after the Photos announcement?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25060973

Re: YouTube Down

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Post by lobster45 » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 1:27 AM UTC

wongarsu wrote: post #76

augusto-moura wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe for other types of service yes, I find difficult to plug a alternative to YouTube, other type of streaming services maybe? Netlfix etc

YouTube is the one-stop-shop of internet videos. Any specific niche has a competitor, but none of them seriously competes with the whole of YouTube. I noticed the outage because I wanted to watch a stream, so I might go to Twitch now. Often I use Youtube for music, where Spotify is a solid alternative with many of the same creators. If I want to see that video from reddit of people throwing burning flares at a balcon…

My daughter could not do her homework assignment, her Google classroom is linked to YouTube. Thank goodness I was able to find the video she was looking for on Dailymotion. I haven’t been to the site in over 10 years

Re: YouTube Down

#170

Post by ramosu » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 1:27 AM UTC

Sometimes I wonder why other big tech companies don't even try to create something to compete with YouTube.

YT have been the only player in the game for far too long.