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WhatsApp goes down for users globally

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Re: WhatsApp goes down for users globally

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That one should be on the front page.

Disagree completely. I’d much rather have a link to a trustworthy source than a random person writing “Tell HN: WhatsApp is down”. The post you think should be frontpage is useless imo. Take the time to link to a source instead of trying to beat everyone to the punch to get a little karma.

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Re: WhatsApp goes down for users globally

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Time to talk about matrix.org and Element not Signal and definitely not Telegram...

Why not Telegram, it has by far the best UX of all chat apps.

Yeah I don't even know if that upper post was meant to be sarcastic. Telegram, despite the security theater, is amazing UX-wise. It's such a joy to use and I see myself more and more engaging with Telegram contacts just because it's convenient in many subtle yet impactful ways.

Re: WhatsApp goes down for users globally

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That one should be on the front page.

Disagree completely. I’d much rather have a link to a trustworthy source than a random person writing “Tell HN: WhatsApp is down”. The post you think should be frontpage is useless imo. Take the time to link to a source instead of trying to beat everyone to the punch to get a little karma.

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Re: WhatsApp goes down for users globally

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Email is slowly becoming centralised unfortunately as small providers are pushed out by big companies. So it won't be long until we have global email outages.

Ham radio operators practice disaster ops, don't they ? How about indie email providers ?

We practice giving up on the whole ordeal as we have to send another damn email to Microsoft asking for them to investigate their standards-non-compliant black box email filtering systems which even they don't understand.

Re: WhatsApp goes down for users globally

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post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not Telegram, it has by far the best UX of all chat apps.

Yeah I don't even know if that upper post was meant to be sarcastic. Telegram, despite the security theater, is amazing UX-wise. It's such a joy to use and I see myself more and more engaging with Telegram contacts just because it's convenient in many subtle yet impactful ways.

You can improve the UX of Matrix clients. You can not make Telegram decentralized or take it out of control of one single entity.

Re: WhatsApp goes down for users globally

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Time to talk about matrix.org and Element not Signal and definitely not Telegram...

Why not Telegram, it has by far the best UX of all chat apps.

That's true, but it has some really annoying stuff and I have a specific bug as well...

https://bugs.telegram.org/c/65

Re: WhatsApp goes down for users globally

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post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I don't even know if that upper post was meant to be sarcastic. Telegram, despite the security theater, is amazing UX-wise. It's such a joy to use and I see myself more and more engaging with Telegram contacts just because it's convenient in many subtle yet impactful ways.

You can improve the UX of Matrix clients. You can not make Telegram decentralized or take it out of control of one single entity.

> You can improve the UX of Matrix clients

No. Most people can't do that (because not everyone is a software developer).

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