Youtube down
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Well, Youtube appears to be having issues. Every video I try to load in standard quality gives me the error message: “An error occured, please try again later.” Videos only available in standard quality won’t load at all. However, the standard quality version of some videos will load if they have HD or HQ versions, while others will still give that error and refuse to load unless you switch to the HQ or HD version of the video. None of the HQ or HD videos I’ve tried has given me that error when I’ve tried to view the HQ or HD version.
Searching Twitter shows that I’m not the only one that’s having this issue, and I’ve confirmed it with friends on IRC as well. Youtube’s Twitter indicates that they did some maintenance that ended at 3:30 PM Pacific Time, which was about 5 hours ago. This issue is still persisting. Hopefully they’ll get things working again soon, as this is a major issue.
Update 1: It has been brought to my attention that there are some videos that are working, but the problem still persists for the videos I have been trying to watch.
Update 2: It looks like that issue has finally been resolved, as videos I was having issues with are now working.
[Pic taken from Safebooru and converted to JPG format]
