It’s not just you, YouTube is partially down in outage

Source: 9to5Google

Current Status

If you’re trying to access YouTube right now and running into problems, you’re not alone, as a widespread outage appears to be affecting YouTube and, to a lesser extent, YouTube TV.

Update: Google says that this issue is partially fixed, with the homepage once again accessible, but a “full fix” is yet to come for issues affecting recommendations.

An issue with the recommendations system prevented videos from appearing across surfaces on YouTube (including the homepage, the YouTube app, YouTube Music, and YouTube Kids). The homepage is back, but a full fix is still in progress.

Timeline and Reports

• Starting at around 7:45 pm ET (4:45 pm PT) and expanding rapidly as of 8:00 pm ET (5:00 pm PT), YouTube experienced a fairly widespread outage.
• Nearly 300,000 reports have been logged on DownDetector, with spikes for both Google and YouTube TV.
• The outage is being widely reported across Reddit and other social media platforms.

Impact on Services

• Core features such as the subscription feed, Shorts, and the homepage were inaccessible on both the mobile app and the web app.
• YouTube TV remained accessible in tests.
• YouTube Music appeared to be working.
• Direct links or embedded YouTube videos on the web were largely unaffected.

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Acknowledgement

As of 8:20 pm ET (5:20 pm PT), Google had not yet formally acknowledged the outage.

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