YouTube Is Down

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16 points·nerdbaggy··7 comments

Thought I was the only one. All videos are being met with a 'Video unavailable" warning.

I highly doubt this was a scheduled outage. Really looking forward to see what caused this.

Interesting, I can play videos if I have their link but it won't pop up the video selection grid. I don't get the video unavailable message, at least not yet.

I tried pasting a direct video link on an alternate browser just to check if something was wrong with firefox. That didn't do it for me either. I dunno if the geographical location matters in this case but I'm on the east coast of the United States. This must be a nightmare for youtube engineers.

https://downdetector.com/status/youtube/

Edit: it seems to be working now.

Trying to watch a video gives me a blank page plus the video player which either plays the video or says that the video is unavailable. Comments, Recommendations, and Related videos are all gone for me. Embeds seem to work, although I haven't tested them too much.

I looked around and can't find an official status page unless it is nested under one of the Google Cloud Services[1] or G Suite[2]. Down detector is reporting it though[3].

[1]: https://status.cloud.google.com/

[2]: https://www.google.com/appsstatus

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

> it seems to be working now.

Which is why to not post this sort of thing on HN. Not interesting.

It's back up.

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