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Geek Culture / Error posting comments on YouTube

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Nickydude
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Posted: 25th May 2013 11:43
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Is anyone else having trouble posting comments or liking a video on YouTube? Every time I try to comment it says "Error. Try again" and when I try to like a video I get: "This feature is not available right now. Please try again later.".

This has been happening since yesterday. Is it happening to anyone else?



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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 25th May 2013 11:52
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Haha. Out of all the other buffering crap and general issues I experience on YouTube, it's a wonder I am not getting the same thing you are.

In terms of quality, YouTube really is going down hill...

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Quik
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Posted: 25th May 2013 12:01
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apparantly youtube doesnt support the usage of <> - that means both used in the comment...

and sometimes i get an error for no reason, i just click post again and it works..



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The Zoq2
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Posted: 25th May 2013 13:09
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Quote: "Haha. Out of all the other buffering crap and general issues I experience on YouTube, it's a wonder I am not getting the same thing you are.

In terms of quality, YouTube really is going down hill..."


Have you tried to swap to the HTML5 player, since I did that, I have had a lot less problems with youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/html5?gl=SE&hl=sv
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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 25th May 2013 14:21 Edited at: 25th May 2013 14:23
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Ah! I'll certainly have to try that. Thanks!

Edit:

I opted in, but right clicking on videos still brings up Flash options. Is that normal?

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Michael P
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Posted: 25th May 2013 14:56
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I get the same thing , doesnt seem to do anything by opting in to HTML5.

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Nickydude
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Posted: 25th May 2013 18:47
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Found that it's only happening in FireFox (latest) I can post and like no problem in Chrome.

Odd.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 25th May 2013 22:01
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I think I've been using the HTML5 version for the past year in opera. There was a way to access it before they announced its availability.

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Libervurto
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Posted: 25th May 2013 23:22
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Even if you opt-in to the HTML5 player, videos with adverts still use the old flash player.

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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 25th May 2013 23:25
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Aye, I recently disabled adblock on YouTube as I felt it was the right thing to do, so will enabling that again make the HTML 5 players work? My logic is that it would disable the adverts.

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Benjamin
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Posted: 25th May 2013 23:28
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Speaking of bugs on YouTube, has anyone else had that problem where even a fully-buffered video will erase its buffer and begin re-buffering if you try to seek to another part in the video? It must be costing the servers so much in bandwidth!

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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 25th May 2013 23:39
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I have observed that on pretty much every single video player I have seen in the past few months. It really irritates me that YouTube limits their buffering to 30 or so seconds in advance to save bandwidth but fixing the un-buffering bug doesn't take maximum priority.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 26th May 2013 00:38
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I used to think they limit the buffer size so you won't have the whole video at any given moment. But that would be pointless since its so easy to download the video from most sites anyway.

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