This is really getting crazy. Has YouTube gone nuts?

I know this might not be how most of you see this, but it doesn't worry me that much - it just means they're working on the site, updating it and, hopefully, improving it.
I'd rather have there be troubles every now and again, than see them not daring to touch the code for fear of breaking anything, or having to wait horrendously long times for any kind of updates to get through.

That of course does not mean that they shouldn't perform a bit of testing before deployment.

And about the money google earn, well yeah, all those servers don't just run on dreams, and they also have to pay developments teams etc. to keep it all alive and improving.
 
It's interesting to hear about the undercounting views thing. Besides the fact that I do not understand at all how that even happens (it's not like it's a manual process as has been said!), I think it's been by more than 10% (at least on my channel it has!). I went from having maybe 70 views on each video (huge numbers I know!) and the most recent ones have maybe 7 or so... maybe for me they have only been counting 10% rather than losing 10%? :p Or maybe my videos are terrible...not sure!

I had one video that was on 0 views for ages and I thought it was strange so I logged onto another account and viewed it myself. Still showed as 0 views, refreshed...0 views. Viewed it on my phone which is not logged in...0 views. 2 days after that it was still on 0! It's on 2 views now but still feel something wrong has gone on there! :confused:
 
This is how it is with big business. An entity as large as Youtube is going to have issues. Sometimes they won't know about them until others complain. It may be annoying but to be honest it's normal. I think we just have to go with it.
 
Foam Toaster said:
... Besides the fact that I do not understand at all how that even happens (it's not like it's a manual process as has been said!) ...
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... No it's not a manual thing, it's a automated routine, however updating the code, or some code related to this routine is, which seems to be a very likely explanation... Clearly something happened on May 12th and 14th, but since they promise to count them over the next few weeks, relax, no data is lost, that's the most important part here!

And why it will take time to get the views counted? - there's a LOT of data, and those special routines also takes resources to run. (we're talking freaking lot of resources here, if it's anyway near the amount of data I imagine, it's probably more than I'm dreaming about... Damn I'd like to get a peek into their database O.o just for a minute...)
At the same time all regular routines have to run alongside as they always do, so they don't fall behind on more days...
 
This is just the last straw in a long line of incorrect and undecipherable statistics from YouTube/Google.
I have worked on business systems for decades and it is not acceptable to give wrong numbers.
 
paullaskovids said:
We expect a quality of service from YouTube.
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Hundreds of hours of video uploaded every minute, even more of that watched simultaneously, millions of channels managed by just as many people and the freedom to upload anything you want as long as it's within reason..and you are basically demanding everything goes right all the time.

That's not "expecting a quality service", that's "false entitlement...
 
You try running a huge website like YouTube and it run perfectly 100% of the time...

And even then, the site is free. No one is forcing you to use it.
 
YouTube makes a hell of a lot of money, so having a broken site isn't "cool". If it has an error for a while and gets fixed, it doesn't matter. If the site has s**t that has been broken for months or years, you've got a fuckin problem.
 
I have to agree with you on this, its like the guy who runs it went on a 2 week break and left the intern in charge.

Most of it is getting fixed but not everyone is back up to speed yet but I agree, this episode of errors is starting to get annoying and I would nearly even go as far as to say its effecting viewer traffic
 
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