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Thought it was quite weird/concerning that that could happen.
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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.
There's so many alternatives, I'm always surprised that a Whatsapp outage seems to mean the end of the world to many people.
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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.
My team just decided to use whatsapp in case of incidents, lmao
Each time this happens I try to recruit more people to use Signal.
WhatsApp seems to have more problems once they switched over to Facebook’s platform rather than their good old fashion FreeBSD with big servers.
Interestingly, a couple minutes before WA went down my messages were being sent while only displaying a single tick (as in the other parties could see my single-tick messages). Thought it was quite weird/concerning that that could happen.
My guess is that this particular outage was caused due to a scaling constraint somewhere in the stack.