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YouTube is down on both mobile and web right now
The Subscriptions tab isn't loading, but some videos are
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Google's servers are usually rock-solid, but even the best of us fall on hard times. It appears YouTube is having one of those off days, as we're seeing reports that the Subscriptions tab isn't loading for many users right now. The outage appears to be multi-regional if not global, and it's affecting both the desktop site and the mobile app.
A massive Reddit outage affecting users across the globe has been resolved
'An elevated level of API errors' was to blame
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Many Reddit users are currently experiencing issues loading the front page and comments sections, both in the app and on the mobile and desktop website. The social media company maintains its own status update site, and at 1:16 p.m. ET, it reportedly began investigating issues with its API that are affecting users globally.
WhatsApp is back online after a massive global outage
The app was completely down for users across the world
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WhatsApp may be one of the best encrypted messengers available, but every platform experiences outages. The Meta-owned chat app suffered one of its worst service disruptions in recent times today, with many users reporting that the app was completely inaccessible. Thankfully, the problem was resolved quickly.
Amazon is back after outage prevented product pages from loading
Pricing info, product details, and more were all hidden from view
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You might want to hold off on shopping for those early Prime Day deals. Amazon seems to be down for users across the globe right now, with retail listings displaying an error message preventing anyone from viewing price information, product details, and more.
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Google Maps users planning on running some Friday afternoon errands are hitting a little bit of a snag today, as a service disruption appears to be causing multiple issues with Maps in regions all around the world.
Slack returns to normal after outage that took down many key features
Time to spam chat with memes again
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Slack is a necessary tool for countless workplaces, whether you work remotely or in person. Unfortunately, the app faced some turbulence this morning, with many of its features both big and small running into bugs, glitches, and error messages. If you had trouble using Slack today, it wasn't just you.
Spotify and Discord are back online following widespread outages
Just in time for your afternoon jam session
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It's never good when an outage hits a service you rely on regularly, but it's even worse when a widespread outage takes down multiple websites and apps. If you're trying to use Spotify, Discord, or Wikipedia, only to run into some major hiccups, it's not just you.
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With international tensions at the highest they've been in recent memory, so many of us turn to social media for up-to-the-second news, analysis from trusted experts, and honestly just to find some dumb memes to distract us for a few blissful moments. Unfortunately, that's proving slightly more difficult than normal this afternoon, as Twitter experiences a service interruption.
With the end of the year fast approaching, it's always a fun exercise to look back at the best and worst of the last twelve months. We're not about to say 2021 was a "good" year by any particular metric (have you opened a newspaper lately?), but plenty of fun things happened — especially in our tech-centric corner of the world. Too bad this particular article isn't about any of those things. Here are some of the biggest tech fails of 2021.
Telegram rides the wave of recent Facebook outages to 1 billion Play Store installs
A million isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion
We may all have our favorite apps and services, but loyalty only goes so far. When something suddenly stops working, it doesn't take us long to go scrambling for alternatives. That's just what's been happening with Facebook and its properties lately, and a series of high-profile outages has had the consequence of pushing users to competing services, including Telegram. Now we're seeing the evidence of that exodus, as the Telegram app crosses the 1 billion installs threshold in the Google Play Store.
'Instagram down again' is such a hot story even Instagram doesn't want to miss it
The app might tell you when it's experiencing an outage
Remember last week, when Instagram (and, well, all of Facebook) went down for the better part of a day? Remember when it happened again on Friday afternoon, just as we were all heading into a long, relaxing weekend? Well, Instagram can’t promise its app will never experience these sorts of issues again, but it does want to improve how it communicates with users whenever a problem sprouts up.
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For the second time this week, Facebook’s experienced an outage. While none of the current issues were as as widespread as what went down on Monday, some of its services — Instagram in particular — received thousands of reports of slowdown and connection problems. Thankfully, everything's been resolved.
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When you're trying to keep on top of your communications, having one number that's tied to all your devices — and even accessible through a web interface — sounds like a dream come true. And for the most part, that's exactly what Google Voice is. But key to that success is it managing to actually do its job, and right now that's not exactly going as planned, as Google reports issues with text messages experiencing delays.
Instagram is back online following hours-long outage in parts of the world
It looks like India took the worst hit
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Instagram was for many people in parts of the world over night, with an influx of reports coming from India (via India Today). Many people took to Twitter to say that the Instagram app on Android and iOS app wasn't accessible for them. WhatsApp and Facebook were still up and running, so it doesn't seem like all of Facebook was affected by the problems.
Reddit's getting back to 'normal' following outage that prevented new posts
Phew, I almost had to work
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If you're an active Reddit user, you might have noticed your favorite online communities are looking a little sparse this morning. While the site is back online and browsable, users were unable to create and submit new posts thanks to a mysterious error.
Google is working on a fix for the Nest app bug that's ruining your energy history
A partial outage is affecting the app, but Google is on the case
A number of users have been complaining of broken energy history data in the Nest app over the weekend. The thermostats themselves seem to be fine, but the app data is incomplete, which sounds like a real pain in the posterior. Thankfully, Google is aware of the issue and is currently working to fix it.
Internet sites coming back online following massive DNS outage
Now back to your regularly scheduled web browsing
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Something's up with the internet today, and it's not your connection. Dozens of sites across the web are currently offline or experiencing issues, including Steam, Amazon, HBO Max, and more.
TikTok experienced an outage last night, but everything's fixed
Everyone's favorite time-waster is back online
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If you're a procrastinator, TikTok might be the most-used app on your phone. As an endless stream of videos algorithmically chosen just for you, it's easy to lose countless hours to scrolling. Of course, that only works if the app is actually working. A major outage affected TikTok users around the globe yesterday, but the service managed to come back online late last night.
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are coming back online following mass outage
Who forgot to pay the hosting bill?
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No, you're not alone. As of late this afternoon, Facebook-powered services including Instagram and WhatsApp are experiencing a service outage. User reports on social media reveal a broad pattern of unavailability.
Nest devices suffer a brief outage, Google says system should now be fully operational
It has been [0] days since our last major smart home system failure
If you tried to take a peek through your Nest Wi-Fi cameras earlier today, and couldn't, you weren't alone. The Nest system appeared to have a widespread outage on Wednesday, as reported by users on Reddit, Twitter, and other social networks. According to a statement from the official Google Nest Support account, the outage is over.