Yep, I came to /new to check as soon as my messages didn't send immediately :)
Tell HN: WhatsApp Is Down
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#12Down in Germany as well.
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#13Here too, in Afg.
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#14This is a big issue in Europe. Everyone I know does text communication exclusively through WhatApp.
They can still text regularly though, so it isn't that much of an issue if there's a real need to communicate.
Edit: I feel like every response I'm getting is: 'but texting is expensive, especially with foreign contacts'. Sure, but do you really need to send 100 texts in the odd hour that Whatsapp is offline sometimes, or can they wait?
Parent wrote 'This is a big issue in Europe', which is what I'm responding to. I live in Europe, I have foreign contacts. This should not be a big issue, because for pretty much everything that can't wait, texting or calling will be worth it. If it isn't worth spending some money to get in touch with someone, it can probably wait. This may be an actual issue for a very, very small number of people. But the majority is just exaggerating because they feel disconnected without being able to send Gifs to their friends for an hour.
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#15Yeah, same here in my current location Spain.
I was trying to send a message to wish good morning to the girl that I’m seeing, and WhatsApp was stuck on “connecting”.
https://downdetector.com/status/whatsapp/ confirms that many other users are currently having problems connecting too.
Does WhatsApp have any official status page? I found an old twitter account that appears to be official but it hasn’t posted in ages.
Will they write post mortem analysis somewhere?
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#16Down in Uganda too. I was speaking to my cousin who just had a baby and told her I'd call back in 2 minutes to see the kid and then whatsapp went down!
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#17This is a big issue in Europe. Everyone I know does text communication exclusively through WhatApp.
They can still text regularly though, so it isn't that much of an issue if there's a real need to communicate. Edit: I feel like every response I'm getting is: 'but texting is expensive, especially with foreign contacts'. Sure, but do you really need to send 100 texts in the odd hour that Whatsapp is offline sometimes, or can they wait? Parent wrote 'This is a big issue in Europe', which is what I'm responding to. I…
The bigger issue is groups, who may not all be in your contacts, as well as services relying on whatsapp as infrastructure.
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#18This is a big issue in Europe. Everyone I know does text communication exclusively through WhatApp.
They can still text regularly though, so it isn't that much of an issue if there's a real need to communicate. Edit: I feel like every response I'm getting is: 'but texting is expensive, especially with foreign contacts'. Sure, but do you really need to send 100 texts in the odd hour that Whatsapp is offline sometimes, or can they wait? Parent wrote 'This is a big issue in Europe', which is what I'm responding to. I…
Sitting in Africa and I have clients in Europe - some things just don't lend themselves to email coms.
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#19WhatsApp seems to have more problems once they switched over to Facebook’s platform rather than their good old fashion FreeBSD with big servers.
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#20Yeah, same here in my current location Spain. I was trying to send a message to wish good morning to the girl that I’m seeing, and WhatsApp was stuck on “connecting”. https://downdetector.com/status/whatsapp/ confirms that many other users are currently having problems connecting too. Does WhatsApp have any official status page? I found an old twitter account that appears to be official but it hasn’t posted in ages.…
They have a status page for the WhatsApp Business API at https://metastatus.com/whatsapp-business-api
It currently shows major disruptions.