Someone deactivated YouTube's G+ account?
+1; getting their 500 page with some info that looks like it's base64 encoded, but it doesn't decode to anything useful running it through `echo -n '[...]' |base64 -d` . Any ideas what format that is?
Office productivity explodes.
It´s not down completely. Sometimes it loads.
Seems to me like their DB is not reachable from all their webservers..
Or perhaps they did push a fix that has not reached all fo their webservers yet.
EDIT: now (few minutes later)it loads just fine, seems the fix had to be pushed to all servers and thats why it sometimes loads and sometimes it doesn`t
It's only some pages here (UK), I can see the homepage and some videos.
Their apis look to be down too http://www.outageanalyzer.com/?id=4080618
I don't think the APIs are down. http://fixyt.com (submitted to HN 3 days ago) is working for me.
And it's down already for about 10 minutes at least.
Came across this same issue a few days ago, but it lasted for just 3-4 minutes.
Metrotube still works, as probably other clients not based on web version.
But some (not all) embedded youtube videos are still working!
It's down here overseas too :)
Back up now.
It's down due to too few G+ comments. Youtube needs a minimum amount of a-hole comments in order to survive.
gone are the days when you could send it /quitquitquit sadly.
+1. Can we continue our lives without Youtube? For how long?
It's back.
Perhaps they're working on some changes to the much-despised commenting system. Either way, this is an interesting development.... one that will have interesting outcomes at the least.
I'll be disappointed if this is just a normal service outage.
The only sane reaction: http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/166182/its-just-gone