YouTube is down
youtube.comThe only sane reaction: http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/166182/its-just-gone
I just rolled to the floor. I love South Park.
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?
I'm going with everybody else, it's an encrypted stack trace. Every reload is entirely different rather than small portions changing, so we can assume it's something like AES rather than a simple XOR. If it were a simpler encoding we would see largely similar areas with just small sections changed for server IDs and timestamps. The distribution of the data is for all intents random, and it's too big to be an identifier on it's own, so that's the only logical explanation I can come up with.
It's probably an encrypted stacktrace
It looks like it's a url-safe base64 encoding of an encrypted blob (perhaps a stack trace). They're using '-', and '_' instead of '/' and '+'. Replace these characters and base64 will succeed, leaving with ~3k bytes randomly distributed between 0x00 and 0xFF.
I am confused why they need to include that if there is little customer support.
I believe it's a pre-Google legacy. I seem to remember seeing it a few times back in the day.
Interesting. If this is the case, then there must be a good reason not to stop rendering that. I am also curious if each server has its own private key or not. Anyhow, thanks for the info.
the decoded data has a frequency distribution similar to random output so probably encrypted :) maybe that did something lolzy like stream cipher with the same key.
could easily be encrypted data
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.
And now it's back on for me
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.