How’d you like to be the programmer that gets a call before 9 a.m. Pacific time, and someone’s yelling about how the YouTube homepage isn’t loading correctly? Your hangover swells as you hear the barking shrill of a panicked voice say something about the logo missing.
Would you kinda feel like the guy in a television station’s master control box that accidentally loads the wrong show tape? Or the one during the live pledge drive that activates the wrong mike so instead of the host we hear the lav mike from the bathroom? What? Not that I’d know.
How can the world’s largest video sharing site go down even briefly? What’s the lost advertising revenue associated with an hour of YouTube down time? It’s got to cost more than the hourly wage of some teenager in India. I’m guessing this techno error cost more than the free snacks in the Google complex today.
All they can hope is that visitors think the problem is on their end or their browser… and that nobody grabs a screen shot of the site — absent its logo — and blogs about it so it lives for eternity.
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I still can’t get over the whole cheese thing.
this is how You Tube always looks on my computer, what’s different?
You lost me at “a call before 9 a.m.”
It looks like YT was just running slow and didn’t load the page entirely or properly.
This looks to me like the work of Al Qaeda.
I’ve been the person who loaded the wrong tape in the control room (not entire TV shows, more like the wrong news piece).
Wait – I actually DID one accidentally load the episode of Pokemon that we just finished airing instead of an episode of Step by Step. Had it not been a station I had been working out forever and people who loved me to piece, I would’ve SO been fired. Fun times.
I’m going to get a lot of traffic to my blog now as people click to see who this idiot it. Good job, Talia, good job.
I suspect the cheese.