Youtube Is Down

Posted3 months agoActive3 months ago

HughParry

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More interesting than YouTube being down is the fact that YouTube doesn’t appear to have an official status page that is exposed externally.

Reported by 3rd party sites for reference:

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/youtube

https://downdetector.co.uk/status/youtube/

YouTube experienced an outage, highlighting the lack of an official external status page, sparking discussion on the importance of transparency and third-party monitoring tools.

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aaronrobinson

3 months ago

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Fine for me

HughParryAuthor

3 months ago

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Most services appear to work, aside from actual video streaming for me

recursion

3 months ago

YouTube music is 95% broken for me too. UK.

lelandbatey

3 months ago

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Agreed, seems like the actual video serving is totally down.

SketchySeaBeast

3 months ago

Not totally, I'll catch an occasional video - I'm watching one right now - but then I'll switch and it'll die again. Can't use Youtube music either for the same reason.

tiborsaas

3 months ago

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Reddit is on fire :) https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1o7qj18/anyone_els...

HughParryAuthor

3 months ago

The outage did make me realise I’d be happier watching episodes of House instead

Perz1val

3 months ago

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I wonder how they managed to kill it worldwide all at once, is there just one streaming server?

rolph