Swat.io incident

YouTube hide/block not working

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Swat.io experienced a notice incident on November 19, 2021 affecting YouTube API, lasting 11d 3h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Nov 19, 2021, 09:00 AM UTC
Resolved
Nov 30, 2021, 12:11 PM UTC
Duration
11d 3h
Detected by Pingoru
Nov 19, 2021, 09:00 AM UTC

Affected components

YouTube API

Update timeline

  1. investigating Nov 22, 2021, 09:20 AM UTC

    Hiding YouTube comments or blocking users isn't currently working. Each respective request against the YouTube API is responding with an error. We already reached out to YouTube and waiting for a response.

  2. identified Nov 22, 2021, 09:21 AM UTC

    The bug-report we created for this issue has been assigned. We'll keep you posted once there are any further updates from YouTube.

  3. resolved Nov 30, 2021, 12:11 PM UTC

    YouTube team has managed to fix the underlying problem and we can confirm that blocking users and hiding/unhiding comments now work again.