Even luckier, their system handled the load apparently. Hopefully their eng team is proud of it.
There were definitely some issues some time after noon PST
Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage
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Re: Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Source re 'old accounts'? 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.
What downtime? There were rumors of degraded video chat capacity, which is a nuisance but not a catastrophe.
Re: Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Source re 'old accounts'? 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.
I also had minor issues for an hour or so. Messages not sending or loading for example.
Re: Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage
#34How 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
Signal did explain what happened. I can’t remember but there was something about the initial auth that got screwed up on Android and kept retrying. And the retries kind of ddos’ed themselves
People explained but it was never officially explained by Moxie or Signal with a write up of sorts.
Re: Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage
#35Offtopic, but "mln" really!? I swear I read "70 min new users", which is quite confusing. Is "70 Million" really too long? I can't say I've seen this one before so I'm reeling a bit. I saw "ml" used recently and almost had a heart attack, so perhaps I'm wondering why now? 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.
Two small notes:
- The 'mln' abbreviation was probably used to shorten the title so that it would appear complete on search engine results.
- I have also seen "MM" used to shorten "million". I believe that "M" means "Molarity" in SI units, and only means millions when prepended to another SI unit abbreviation.
Re: Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage
#36I don't believe it for a second.
Re: Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage
#37Why, in conversations about chat apps, does telegram get brought up so frequently as a private alternative? Is it not also mostly proprietary the same as whatsapp/messenger whatever? Is it just a matter of a dislike for facebook?
Very good point. There's a free-ish client on F-Droid (probably even official), but it's still a proprietary and centralized service. I would not really consider it better than the other proprietary options, but for whatever reason some tech people are into telegram.
Re: Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Source re 'old accounts'? 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.
Sending videos was extremely slow/timing out for ~1 hour, ~24h ago
Re: Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage
#39Why, in conversations about chat apps, does telegram get brought up so frequently as a private alternative? Is it not also mostly proprietary the same as whatsapp/messenger whatever? Is it just a matter of a dislike for facebook?
The clients are open source, which provides better assurances around the E2E encryption than whatsapp.
Re: Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Source re 'old accounts'? 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.
I also had minor issues for an hour or so. Messages not sending or loading for example.
A lot of could also be related to down graded DNS resolver performance due to DDoSing by FB clients.