138 pointsby Vaslo8 hours ago25 comments
  • gilbetron8 hours ago
    I'm already, seriously, looking forward to the post-mortem. It kind of sucks when things break, but it is also really interesting to hear the gritty details. Hopefully they don't disappoint? Odds that is AI related?
    • upmind3 hours ago
      Same, I don't think I've ever noticed YouTube being down. (I'm sure it's been down in the past 10 years, I just haven't noticed it)
    • neo_doom7 hours ago
      Same here... Having been on both sides of it, I much rather prefer reading about a post-mortem than writing one
    • andrewinardeer6 hours ago
      You think they'll release a post mortem publically?
  • dysoco7 hours ago
    You can search and watch videos directly with no issue, but main feed and suggestions on the side of videos are not appearing.

    Really goes to show how much I depend on the algorithmic recommendations, I have no idea what to watch having to search manually. Usually my feed always has something that piques my interest.

    edit: back up

    • KORraN29 minutes ago
      If you are subscribed to channels, I really recommend using Subscriptions instead of home page. Otherwise, you may miss videos from your favorite creators just because YT decided so.
    • kingstnap7 hours ago
      Search on YouTube has been broken for at least 4 to 5 years.

      Some time back it used to find stuff. Now its just recommends shorts.

  • heelix7 hours ago
    Man... updated mozilla,toyed with my ad blocker, now updating the os. Never crossed my mind this was a 'them' problem.
  • rolph8 hours ago
    • ls6128 hours ago
      This is certificate issuance being down?
      • LoganDark8 hours ago
        And started over five hours ago.
  • jayknight8 hours ago
    I'm currently sitting next to my son who is watching a Mark Rober video on youtube.

    But yeah, neither the web site or the app are loading anything right now. But I guess a stream in progress in unaffected.

  • nayuki6 hours ago
    I mistakenly thought that YouTube hit a compatibility problem with my Firefox browser. The only breakage I could see was that the right sidebar of related/recommended videos disappeared. But I was watching several videos consecutively just fine. (I obtained video links from recent bookmarks, plus manually queued URLs of next videos to watch.)
  • sharkytowers7 hours ago
    I think it is an authorization issue? Thought it might be on my end... glad to have found this.
  • seatac767 hours ago
    Interesting outage, I can play videos added to my playlists, but homepage is empty.
  • userbinator7 hours ago
    Videos are streaming but the quality seems to be low; on a few videos I checked, format 136 which is supposed to be 1080p is currently actually only 360p. Possibly a bandwidth problem.
  • Freedom27 hours ago
    Interesting. I wonder what LeetCode hard they'll use to investigate and fix this issue.
  • 1970-01-017 hours ago
    What happens if downdetector goes down? Who watches the watcher?
  • therobots9277 hours ago
    I’m sure Claude will have it up and running in just a few minutes. No big deal.
  • dpbriggs8 hours ago
    Directly navigating to a channel works fine.
  • tmcz268 hours ago
    Well that’s one way to go to bed on time :)
    • bilekas8 hours ago
      I can't sleep without something playing in the background.. Curse this habbit.
      • Bender6 hours ago
        yt-dlp pulling down a handful of videos and playing them locally could help if using workstation or laptop then re-up them to phone if using a phone.
      • gordonhart6 hours ago
        Audiobooks?
      • lysace7 hours ago
        I discovered a particularly good genre for that:

        Zero narration mechanical manufacturing videos. E.g. from some Japanese paperclip/thumbtack factory:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVxjy5pnlPY

  • 8 hours ago
    undefined
  • bombcar6 hours ago
    The fattest of Tuesdays.
  • ls6128 hours ago
    I’ve been forcibly signed out from my Google account across all devices I think this may be their auth that went down.
  • Vaslo8 hours ago
    I’m able to reach videos via my history but not getting anything on the front page.
  • proc07 hours ago
    Watch this be a bug added by some AI agent.
  • kgwxd7 hours ago
    FCC is really trying hard to stop that Talarico video.
  • AlienRobot8 hours ago
    The home feed of the website doesn't seem to be working for me, but individual channel pages are working, and videos are loading.
    • mbilker7 hours ago
      I concur. I can reach channel pages from my channel list on the home page even with the recommended videos not loading.
    • d3428 hours ago
      yeah same for me. just home page. they have a very big server driven UI response for a 5xx something went wrong try again page.
  • chriscrisby8 hours ago
    Now I have nothing
    • ge968 hours ago
      It is funny when your internet goes down (panic!)
  • Manojbhat098 hours ago
    [dead]
  • arnorhs8 hours ago
    what ever will i do /s

    the upside this is a great opportunity to do an early bed time

    • 8 hours ago
      undefined
  • knowitnone38 hours ago
    [dead]