YouTube Down

Same here in socal, and look at those report numbers. Baseline 30, now almost 190,000 reports. I wonder what could be going on to cause this level of global service degradation.

Perhaps related, I uploaded a video earlier today that took nearly 4 hours to process, though it was only ten minutes long.

Re: YouTube Down

#6

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

Microservices in action! Can visit the site, see comments, but can't play videos. Go to twitter, check the latest tweets containing "youtube down", thousands of results coming.

Now I know why I used to download all my favorite videos to USB/SSD!

Re: YouTube Down

#7

Post by augusto-moura » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 12:26 AM UTC

oedoedxef wrote: post #6

Microservices in action! Can visit the site, see comments, but can't play videos. Go to twitter, check the latest tweets containing "youtube down", thousands of results coming. Now I know why I used to download all my favorite videos to USB/SSD!

Microservices out of action in this case

Re: YouTube Down

#8

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

Same here in socal, and look at those DownDetector report numbers[0]. Baseline 30, now almost 200,000 reports. I wonder what could be going on to cause this level of global service degradation.

Perhaps related, I uploaded a video earlier today that took nearly 4 hours to process, though it was only ten minutes long.

[0]: https://downdetector.com/status/youtube/

Re: YouTube Down

#9

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

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

Re: YouTube Down

#10

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

Seems like just the video player is down - homepage loads with thumbnails, and when you click on a video, everything but the video player renders. What I find interesting is that scrolling through a video still displays closed captions and even the thumbnail preview of the timestamp you're hovering over. Curious if anyone know what causes something like this?