On Tuesday, Alphabet’s Youtube announced that it has fixed some of the most annoying issues which caused thousands of users losing access to its platform or made them face slow services.

More than 15,000 incidents of people reporting issues with YouTube were shown by Downdetector. Now it tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. YouTube tweeted:

“If you were having a slower than normal experience or were having trouble accessing YouTube earlier today – this has been fixed! The issue ran for about 20 mins.”

If you were having a slower than normal experience or were having trouble accessing YouTube earlier today – this has been fixed! The issue ran for about 20 mins, thanks for all of your reports.

— TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) December 14, 2021

According to Web tool reviewing website ToolTester, the platform has experienced 65 outages over the past 12 months.