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Re: WhatsApp Down in Some Regions

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Post by dkokelley » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 5:53 PM UTC

There's a broader outage somewhere, and I've had degraded service on Google Meet today. Thought it was my speed, but speedtest.net is down too! https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/speedtest.net

Re: WhatsApp Down in Some Regions

#12

Post by AugurCognito » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 5:54 PM UTC

moinnadeem wrote: post #5

Instagram is down for me (located in the midwest). Reports "5xx server error"

Whatsapp is reporting same error here(India) https://web.whatsapp.com/status.json

Re: WhatsApp Down in Some Regions

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Post by bukhtarkhan » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 5:54 PM UTC

this is exactly why we need 1000000 different messaging apps lol

Re: WhatsApp Down in Some Regions

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Post by capableweb » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 5:55 PM UTC

luxpir wrote: post #10

francis-io wrote: post #6

Down for me in the UK for the past 30 mins.

Same. Quick, SMS everyone a Signal link!

Yeah, lets replace this centralized service that goes down sometimes with another centralized service that hasn't started going down sometimes yet!

OR, get people on Matrix or similar so we can actually stop jumping ship when our centralized dear service stops acting in our best interest.

Re: WhatsApp Down in Some Regions

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Post by justapassenger » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 5:55 PM UTC

tcarn wrote: post #2

Phew, it's not just me. Beyond me why more of these big tech companies can't build more redundancies for their services.

It's not just about adding redundancies. Redundancies don't protect you against bugs, and they're itself very complex, so they introduce more opportunity for errors. Even with best redundancy, you'll have incidents from time to time.

Re: WhatsApp Down in Some Regions

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Post by hans1729 » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 5:55 PM UTC

>(xn--allestrungen-9ib.de)

Jesus Christ HN, can you please use a sane charset

Re: WhatsApp Down in Some Regions

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Post by marcodiego » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 5:55 PM UTC

Down in Brazil too together with instagram and facebook. More food for conspiracy theorists...

Re: WhatsApp Down in Some Regions

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Post by TedShiller » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 5:56 PM UTC

good

Re: WhatsApp Down in Some Regions

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Post by capableweb » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 5:57 PM UTC

hans1729 wrote: post #16

>(xn--allestrungen-9ib.de) Jesus Christ HN, can you please use a sane charset

Eh, what's the problem really?

A) we who regularly use those characters already know how it looks when websites don't encode stuff properly

B) the crowd on HN most likely know what it means anyways, and can ignore it without loosing their mind

Re: WhatsApp Down in Some Regions

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Post by k1t » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 5:57 PM UTC

hans1729 wrote: post #16

>(xn--allestrungen-9ib.de) Jesus Christ HN, can you please use a sane charset

Isn't it best this way for security? Eg. to prevent something that looks like apple.com but is actually some weird unicode alternative