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Even luckier, their system handled the load apparently. Hopefully their eng team is proud of it.
Other than the 1:30 hour downtime that happened to a lot of old accounts. I actually think it's genius if they throttled old accounts just to let new people see how good telegram is.
I have an account as old as you can get, and had no problems, so I'd be interested in proof of a disproportionate impact on older accounts.
And one day later close to none of them are messaging over Telegram
That just feels like a honeypot/dataleak waiting to happen.
How many are left after whatsapp returned ? The same thing happen when Signal took off, followed by 3 days of outage that to date has had no explanation. All those people joined and promptly returned to WhatsApp
Wasn't it that Signal effectively DDoS'd themselves? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25803010
How many are left after whatsapp returned ? The same thing happen when Signal took off, followed by 3 days of outage that to date has had no explanation. All those people joined and promptly returned to WhatsApp
Retentions are more important than subscriptions.
Is there a way to join telegram without giving them my phone number? That just feels like a honeypot/dataleak waiting to happen.
SI clearly states "M" no? I'd have kept it short and sweet as "70M", just saying. Heh, or perhaps 70 mega-new-users, but I digress.