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I was wondering what was causing all these 500 Server Error iFrames to show up all over the web. This is exactly why I oppose our current system of copyright laws. There's no legal way to mirror a lot of the really unique, rich content that's on YouTube and, if one day that content creator decides to delete it off YouTube, we might lose large pieces of internet history forever and just flat-out break sites that are embedding that content.

Scary thought...

That's why we need IPFS, blockchain and all kind of decentralized system. Watch DTube meanwhile https://d.tube/

That is why it's so important to never be down. Otherwise when would I have heard of DTube?

I forgot the name but there is a website in Russia that is very similar to Youtube and quite popular as well.

PeerTube is also worth a mention. They just released 1.0.0. so now's a good time to evaluate it.

https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube

So are you saying it's 100% impossible to hvae DTube go down?

So... about that. If you like a video, you better save it yourself because otherwise it will be gone someday forever. That’s good advice for anything you see on the Internet.

all hail youtube-dl.

I don't have the time nor the money to be a data hoarder, unfortunately. I think there needs to be a bigger collective of people that preserve this type of history. Archive.org is doing a sizable job with the written side of the internet but there's still a long way to go to preserve media.

I too don't have the time or money to be a data hoarder, but if I like something enough that I'm going to want to read or watch it again, and especially if I want to refer it to others or refer back to it as a source, I'll make a copy.

Not because I necessarily want my own copy, but because it is the only way to make sure that I'll still have it available for my own use. That said, there's a lot that just isn't worth saving, so I don't actually spend much in the way of time or money saving it.

But that's exactly the point of my initial post. Downloading a video for myself on YouTube is technically copyright infringement. That's a completely ridiculous concept but it's the state of where the internet is today thanks to corporate lobbyists and politicians that are easy to buy off who don't understand how the technology works in the first place.

I was also noticing it's not just youtube, a number of other sites are experiencing issues. Some major provider is down?

Speaks to the great work that the youtube SREs generally do that these events are shocking.

It's true. I mean, has YouTube ever been down before?

Only scheduled outages in their first few years, generally preceding a brand new video player look and feel before they eventually settled on the red that would is still in their current player.

Other than that, I don’t recall YouTube ever having an outage per se.

They've seen hundreds of partial outages over the last few years.

Normally it's just one feature broken or a handful of videos unplayable though.

Do they encrypt the server side error stack trace so they can safely leak server details which makes error reporting on the client side secure and straight to the point instead of having deal to with custom error messages?

500 Internal Server Error Sorry, something went wrong.

A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation.

If you see them, send them this information as text (screenshots frighten them): APkpgMWbWQ3LvimPoFynDB0W8VeUJ9ECiPcDCm8L0Qiku1I2TbAShWp- taKn-AzOGigwq0sU4oe9mbWb2Bwv4BK37C5xOAL7qm11fHn4L0swqhLk wbcnyKH2HM3AQNf-ucVsolyigJTNKA2SSNUMVZnDPmfsFH7ecKkpQmNi VGWhtXypv0zJyz9d_mpkgMoONtIrPUA4imxK-gNnE-_WQWQZNJm0CTae slJVC-TYgnvOZ9AYp6nodeUNpCoGspWaJVXn_ZSxy-71oGdlkCqWs6AY 2wmIEKe8eeAMqwkTHZNHkbAaH-fxWE_WDPuG-q7AFbOz8jZCFD06MYgf obFUSaH6B7PUdBFwVvjEaTD34J8PVhZTIJziRK-9-wSHOI6Vwf1lTuFe X0m52abRMW1VJaZB3taHK09kFT8Lv546OPhsL0Bn70UIs2durkAAYe4Z ...

That's a great idea.

Well now. I guess everyone runs into one of these every now and then. I thought my Roku had finally bought it.

Yup - guess I can't blame this one on my apartment complex's awful ISP. I hope someone posts a post-mortem later.

This is also affecting YouTube TV, which is a little unfortunate because it's NBA opening night and the middle of baseball playoffs. With so many streaming TV services, I can't be the only one who signed up for another one right there on the spot.

Google analytics is also down for me

Wow, I thought my computer had issues. SRE @ Youtube will probably be very busy tonight.

I was blaming it on Comcast - couldn't believe its youtube. I can search videos fine, so looks like a problem with media side.

Youtube is down in NJ so probably north east.

Down in MD as well as from int'l VPN. Activate Crab 17

Houston down as well

I am from India. It’s working just fine. Not sure what do you mean by worldwide

Wait, I think it’s down here too. The home page opens just fine. But when I search for something and try opening that up, nothing comes.

The homepage doesn't how any videos. The search bar starts showing suggestions as I type and ends up fetching videos but when I click on them to play, it says "An Error occurred. Please try again later. (Playback ID: some-value)". Its down. I wonder how other functionalities are working.

Google maps was giving me 500s too. Someone’s having a bad afternoon.

Good news: highly trained monkeys are on the way

Heading over to Vimeo for first time in ages. This is like when Apple has a live event and we have to open Safari.

isitdownrightnow.com can't keep up. Getting 520 errors on http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/youtube.com.html

Down in US midwest

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