WhatsApp goes down for users globally

yeah, but people just can't be bothered to check if maybe the big thing that happened in the last 30 minutes could possibly have been submitted already before posting submission number 10 about it, so that's what happens.

Re: WhatsApp goes down for users globally

#5

Post by KoftaBob » Tue, Oct 25, 2022, 8:38 AM UTC

Seems like a good time to plug Session: https://getsession.org/

Open source, doesn't require a phone number, and a big strength is that it's decentralized, which makes it much less vulnerable to outages like this.

"Session utilises the decentralised Oxen Service Node Network to store and route messages. This means that unlike P2P messaging applications you can message Session users when they are offline. This network consists of community operated nodes which are stationed all over the world. Service nodes are organised into collections of small co-operative groups called swarms.

Swarms offer additional redundancy and message delivery guarantees even if some service nodes become unreachable. By using this network, Session doesn’t have a central point of failure, and Session’s creators have no capacity to collect or store personal information about people using the app"

Re: WhatsApp goes down for users globally

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Post by edf13 » Tue, Oct 25, 2022, 8:38 AM UTC

detaro wrote: post #4

jansan wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That one should be on the front page.

yeah, but people just can't be bothered to check if maybe the big thing that happened in the last 30 minutes could possibly have been submitted already before posting submission number 10 about it, so that's what happens.

It's not that they can't be bothered - it's that they want to be the one that posts with the upvotes/attention

Re: WhatsApp goes down for users globally

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Post by throwawayben » Tue, Oct 25, 2022, 8:40 AM UTC

jansan wrote: post #3

detaro wrote: post #2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33327320

That one should be on the front page.

I don't understand why it's not given recency + votes

Re: WhatsApp goes down for users globally

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Post by klpu » Tue, Oct 25, 2022, 8:42 AM UTC

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Re: WhatsApp goes down for users globally

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Post by seydor » Tue, Oct 25, 2022, 8:45 AM UTC

Thankfully there is still email, which never went down globally

Re: WhatsApp goes down for users globally

#10

Post by miroljub » Tue, Oct 25, 2022, 8:45 AM UTC

KoftaBob wrote: post #5

Seems like a good time to plug Session: https://getsession.org/ Open source, doesn't require a phone number, and a big strength is that it's decentralized, which makes it much less vulnerable to outages like this. "Session utilises the decentralised Oxen Service Node Network to store and route messages. This means that unlike P2P messaging applications you can message Session users when they are offline. This network…

I supposed it's a Matrix client, but couldn't find anything by glancing the home page.

Btw, the whole idea of "no phone numbers" makes it really hard to spread. It basically means you can't send a message to anyone in your address book that already has Session installed, unless you get his Session username by other means.