Many of you noticed (and reported) that on 9/26, our push notification system did not appear to be working. This was due to an authentication issue with Apple’s servers preventing our server from connecting to actually send the notifications to your devices.
As of 10:00PM Eastern Standard Time, 9/27, this issue has been resolved and push notifications should now be flowing normally. We apologize for the interruption.
Just wanted to post a quick note to let everyone know the server is back up and running in it’s new home. By now, it should have detected (and pushed) notifications for any videos that were posted by our partners today.
Thanks for your patience during this outage!
We are moving our servers to a new location on Saturday, 4/21/2012 so portions of our services will be unavailable.
All of our YouTube apps will still list and play videos fine, but the following services will be unavailable beginning around 1:30PM Eastern Time:
We currently plan to be back online by midnight eastern time as a worst case scenario, and we hope to be back online much sooner. We thank you for your patience while we move our servers to a location which will help us to continue our trend of growth in the long term.
Many of you have linked YouTube to your existing Google accounts. Some have reported that they receive an error when they try to log in to their google account, despite being linked to YouTube.
With the recently added ability to “link” your account, YouTube now allows google account holders to rate/comment/subscribe to content without actually having a YouTube channel on their account.
We are working on an update to support these new “linked accounts” that are active on YouTube that do not have a YouTube channel, but, in the meantime – if you would like to login to YouTube using our app – simply add a channel to your account. It’s free, takes only a couple seconds, and it doesn’t mean you have to start uploading videos.
To add a channel to your YouTube-Linked google account, simply visit the Create Channel page on YouTube by clicking here:
Once you add a channel, you can use all of the YouTube specific functionality in our apps without issue.
Thanks to Erin, one of our faithful PhillyD app users, we have discovered a bug in our app framework. It seems that the folks at YouTube have slightly changed the API responsible for posting comment replies. Comments post fine, but when you try to reply to another user’s comment, you get an error that looks like this:
I am coding the fix for this now, and it will be in all of the updates – which I will be submitting to Apple this weekend.
Thank you to Erin for reporting this issue. If you are reading this message and you know of any other bugs, or have feature suggestions – please let us know by using the contact button on the About tab – located under “More” from the main tab bar in any of our apps.
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