Invidious instance is shutting down

The main Invidious instance (invidio.us) will be shutting down on September 1, 2020. Omar, the original creator and current maintainer, is tired and fed up. We can't blame him but this, to me, is a sad moment. I have grown to rely on Invidious in order to bypass the Youtube bullshit. It is not exactly clear, however, why the instance needs to shut down just because Omar will no longer be involved. Plans are in the works to find a solution.

As far as I can tell, invidio.us is the only Invidious instance in all of North America. Most of the others are in Europe. This will have some impact with regard to videos that are region-locked to the US. For example, CBS News is only accessible through invidio.us for anyone not in the US. Not a big loss, I'm sure, but it is just one example.

For my part, I have been linking to invidio.us for Youtube videos on my own board at 8kun (/alleycat/). All of those links will break in September. We shall see whether there will be a viable solution for this.

Omar's resignation letter: https://omar.yt/posts/stepping-away-from-open-source

Discussion threads: https://github.com/omarroth/invidious/issues

Omar's repository now redirects to: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

CBS News (example of region locking): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8p1vwvWtl6T73JiExfWs1g