Invidious is now mostly operational. Please see below for known issues.

Piped and Hyperpipe are still blocked.
- This is to be expected until Piped implements similar changes that Invidious has.
The “This content isn’t available”, “This helps protects our community”, and “Please sign in to confirm you’re not a bot” error messages will still ~~occasionally~~ occur.
- Recent YouTube updates have drastically increased their rate of “potoken generation”, meaning that these blocks are going to be significantly more common until Invidious updates.
- To be more detailed - Instead of having a potoken generated once per session (as was before) for verification, it is now generated per video.
- Waiting a few minutes then refreshing usually works.
- This should only take up to 5 minutes, worst case scenario 10.
The error “connecting to ‘companion:8282’: Connection refused” may pop up when attempting to view a video.
- This is due to companion either still booting up or potoken fetching failing (see Invidious#5223.)
- Usually, this is resolved after refreshing due to an automatic IP rotation, same duration as the above. However, if there is too much activity on the instance or network, it may take a long time for the error to go away.
Playback may indefinitely load while watching a video.
- This is due to a restart happening while the user is watching a video, thus stopping the connection.
- Can easily be resolved by refreshing the page or changing video qualities.
Playback may indefinitely load before watching a video (or the player might immediately error out, but other info such as comments will load.)
- No solid cause can be found at this time, but can be identified by looking in the browser console and looking for 403 videoplayback requests.
- You’ll need to use another instance if you encounter this.
DASH playback sometimes doesn’t work if the page is reloaded.
- Refresh again or disable DASH.
Downloads are not supported.
- See iv-org/invidious-companion#13.
Third-party apps, such as FreeTube and Materialious, will likely not work.
- This is due to companion not supporting the API yet. See iv-org/invidious-companion#22.
- Some servers might still work regardless - they will likely not stay working.

Any problems that happen on Invidious affect Poke.

Server details

NYC-1 is our main server - it's a fully dedicated server with way more OP specs than needed. This is how my hosts are one of the most performant and reliable.

Besides myself, this server is shared between 3 other sysadmins: Ashley Graves, emreis, and Ashley0143.

CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 3.3GHz
RAM: 64GB
STORAGE: 1TB SSD
NETWORK: 10Gbps(?) Unmetered
HOST: RoyaleHosting
LOCATION: Nearby New York City
COST: €90 per month (roughly $98 a month)

CAL-1 is a standard VPS hosted in the heart of Silicon Valley, allowing for the best connection to most popular services (i.e. YouTube.)

CPU: AMD EPYC 7402P 2.8GHz (2 vCPUs)
RAM: 5GB
STORAGE: 60GB SSD
NETWORK: 750Mbps Unmetered (during congestion, this can go as low as 2.5Mbps)
HOST: Torando VPS
LOCATION: Silicon Valley
COST: $20 per month

POL-1 is a standard VPS hosted in ~~femboy land~~ Warsaw, Poland. As our Europe server, it's specced out to be fast and stable enough for all our ~~femboys~~ europeans.

CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4114 (4 vCPUs)
RAM: 4GB
STORAGE: 144GB SSD
NETWORK: 1Gbps 60TB monthly cap
HOST: Skhron
LOCATION: Warsaw
COST: €42.87 per month (roughly $47 a month)

Donations

As you can tell, running these all isn't cheap. I am currently paying over $100 out of pocket, solely for the sake of others to use these. If you want to help out, you can donate to me at Liberapay.

To be 100% crystal clear - Donations will never be required for this service to run. Unless I get fired from my job for whatever reason and can't find a new one in time to pay for this, I will always be paying the remaining cost out of pocket. This is merely set up if you or someone else wants to help support me, and by extension, the frontend developers who make these.

URL Shortener

We have a basic URL shortener system set up for these services. You can access it at ggt.bz. Just replace the ggtyler.dev part of the URL with ggt.bz and you're good to go.

Have a specific server location you like to use? Go to ggt.bz first, select the location you prefer, and now any link you visit through that will use that location. (The exception being including the location in the URL itself.)

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If you're commenting about a service not working, then check the service notice up top! It's very likely that it's a known issue. If you're commenting about me making a frontend, please remember that I do not make anything listed here - I merely host it for the public to use.

Comments are approved manually - please be patient. If you do not see your comment immediately, don't spam it. Please have some common sense here too. These are still human beings, so no racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc. No NSFW either.

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