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This is bad. I spent a lot of time and effort getting non-techie friends to switch from whatsapp, and now what is supposed to be the best alternative is having
by afroisalreadyin 6y ago
This is bad. I spent a lot of time and effort getting non-techie friends to switch from whatsapp, and now what is supposed to be the best alternative is having a massive downtime. I think I'll just give up.
- njsubedi 6y agoPlease don’t give up so fast.
- dbg31415 6y agoTotally agree, but looks like they just got Slashdotted. Hard to imagine it'll be down much longer. Shame they couldn't anticipate this, or scale better. Curious what their postmortem will have in it.
- zamadatix 6y agoIf there was ever a time it was going to go down its preciously after qulck exponential growth in the 10s of millions of users.
- mackrevinack 6y agohas whatsapp never had an outrage?
- dunefox 6y agoI don't remember it having an outage of 24 hours.
- dunefox 6y agoI have given up too - people are complaining to me (via WhatsApp since it just works) because I recommended Signal and they signed up. Now I'm the guy whose recommendations are probably going to be ignored. Signal just isn't suitable as a replacement/daily chat app...