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Re: YouTube Down

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Post by drilldrive » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 12:49 AM UTC

jacobwilliamroy wrote: post #43

drilldrive wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why MM, is it the standard for million akin to "k" is for thousand?

MM looks like "million million" to me, which is the old standard for billion but nowadays a billion is just a thousand million and a million million is a trillion and I am constantly feeling frustrated about how wasteful we are with words for big numbers. But I think in this context MM is a million.

That was my exact thoughts seeing MM too yeah, the Roman M symbol meaning thousand clears it up though. Just a historical oddity.

Re: YouTube Down

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Post by MrRiddle » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 12:50 AM UTC

Still down in Serbia.

Re: YouTube Down

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Post by jacobwilliamroy » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 12:50 AM UTC

ATsch wrote: post #40

5 bucks on BGP

I get a 502 error trying to load the actual video stream

Re: YouTube Down

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Post by bsimpson » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 12:50 AM UTC

Google Play Music/YouTube Music are slow to load streams for me, but do eventually play.

EDIT: just kidding - playback is intermittently hanging now.

Re: YouTube Down

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Post by peterburkimsher » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 12:50 AM UTC

Down in New Zealand. Perhaps a failed algorithm update with the intention of breaking youtube-dl?

Re: YouTube Down

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Post by wongarsu » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 12:50 AM UTC

augusto-moura wrote: post #21

birdyrooster wrote: post #18

Downdetector seems like a great place to advertise. You have a bunch of people who were forced to abandon the provider of whatever type of service that your company may offer. What a great opportunity to show customers your competing product.

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 balcony I can probably find it on LiveLeak. Many of the educational channels I've subscribed are also on Nebula, but I could also watch a documentary on Netflix or Disney+ instead.

Re: YouTube Down

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Post by auslegung » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 12:50 AM UTC

zzapplezz wrote: post #63

zzapplezz wrote: post #44

IT'S BACK

Perhaps context will help: Pacific Northwest (PNW) here. Seattle. EDITs: More specific in location.

Pacific Northwest? I've lived in the US all my life and had to guess, not sure PNW is known to most outside of the Western North America

Re: YouTube Down

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Post by rajamaka » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 12:50 AM UTC

ATsch wrote: post #40

5 bucks on BGP

Double down on DNS

Re: YouTube Down

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Post by OGWhales » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 12:51 AM UTC

ATsch wrote: post #49

jedberg wrote: post #12

So is speedtest.net. I wonder how they're related (if at all)

It looks like it's a CDN issue, which might affect many things using GCP for large files.

Speedtest and youtube restored for me at the exact same second. I had the windows open side-by-side. Not my area of expertise but I believe you now

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Post by kparaju » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 12:51 AM UTC

chrisjc wrote: post #64

replwoacause wrote: post #53

Still down in TX. Noticing other sites offline as well.

Google cloud (GCP) outage maybe?

Their dashboard says everything is up: https://status.cloud.google.com/