YouTube is down

The only sane reaction: <a href="http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/166182/its-just-gone" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.southparkstudios.com&#x2F;clips&#x2F;166182&#x2F;its-just-gone</a>

Someone deactivated YouTube&#x27;s G+ account?

+1; getting their 500 page with some info that looks like it&#x27;s base64 encoded, but it doesn&#x27;t decode to anything useful running it through `echo -n &#x27;[...]&#x27; |base64 -d` . Any ideas what format that is?

Office productivity explodes.

It´s not down completely. Sometimes it loads.<p>Seems to me like their DB is not reachable from all their webservers..<p>Or perhaps they did push a fix that has not reached all fo their webservers yet.<p>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&#x27;s only some pages here (UK), I can see the homepage and some videos.

Their apis look to be down too <a href="http://www.outageanalyzer.com/?id=4080618" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.outageanalyzer.com&#x2F;?id=4080618</a>

I don&#x27;t think the APIs are down. <a href="http://fixyt.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fixyt.com</a> (submitted to HN 3 days ago) is working for me.

And it&#x27;s down already for about 10 minutes at least.

Yup, <a href="http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/youtube.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com&#x2F;youtube.com</a>

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&#x27;s down here overseas too :)

Back up now.

It&#x27;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 &#x2F;quitquitquit sadly.

+1. Can we continue our lives without Youtube? For how long?

It&#x27;s back.

Perhaps they&#x27;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.<p>I&#x27;ll be disappointed if this is just a normal service outage.