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Even luckier, their system handled the load apparently. Hopefully their eng team is proud of it.

TallonRain 5y ago
Not really, plenty of users were unable to connect for some time. Just about my whole friend group and I myself were unable to use Telegram for about an hour or so around the peak of the surge.
aaomidi 5y ago
Other than the 1:30 hour downtime that happened to a lot of old accounts. I actually think it's genius if they throttled old accounts just to let new people see how good telegram is.
- toby- 5y ago
  Source re 'old accounts'? I have an account as old as you can get, and had no problems, so I'd be interested in proof of a disproportionate impact on older accounts.
  - ksaj 5y ago
    I wonder if they meant longest idle accounts. It would make sense to throttle them if they're just running tmux with an idle shell or ten. Like a bigger renice that shuts off when the process stops being idle.
  - throwawaybutwhy 5y ago
    What downtime? There were rumors of degraded video chat capacity, which is a nuisance but not a catastrophe.
    - stephencoyner 5y ago
      Notifications didn't work until about 5PM PDT for me
      - dorchadas 5y ago
        It didn't work on mobile for me in Ireland for about an hour or so -- couldn't get a call or messages out on WiFi or data, but it worked perfectly fine on my laptop.
  - aaomidi 5y ago
    Just mainly me and two other people. Specifically happened to US users.
  - idsout 5y ago
    I also had minor issues for an hour or so. Messages not sending or loading for example.
    - manquer 5y ago
      A lot of could also be related to down graded DNS resolver performance due to DDoSing by FB clients.
      - aaomidi 5y ago
        Nah I have 3 telegram accounts. Two were fine. One was dead. Specifically the one that I had signed up with in 2013
  - executive 5y ago
    Sending videos was extremely slow/timing out for ~1 hour, ~24h ago
  - BTCOG 5y ago
    Same. No issues.
  - pdimitar 5y ago
    I was sending a few short videos to several contacts (during the FB outage) and the upload speed was something like 20KB/s, whereas normally 2MB are uploaded before I blink. My account is from 2016, if not 2015 even.
  - stiltzkin 5y ago
    I have an old account but images did not load correctly. Seems the experience is not the same on other countries.
- znpy 5y ago
  On my phone i only had problems with media, text worked okay. On my laptop instead it was slow until I enabled traffic over ipv6, then it went mostly okay.
whimsicalism 5y ago
There were definitely some issues some time after noon PST

Not really, plenty of users were unable to connect for some time. Just about my whole friend group and I myself were unable to use Telegram for about an hour or so around the peak of the surge.

aaomidi 5y ago

Other than the 1:30 hour downtime that happened to a lot of old accounts. I actually think it's genius if they throttled old accounts just to let new people see how good telegram is.

toby- 5y ago
Source re 'old accounts'? I have an account as old as you can get, and had no problems, so I'd be interested in proof of a disproportionate impact on older accounts.
- ksaj 5y ago
  I wonder if they meant longest idle accounts. It would make sense to throttle them if they're just running tmux with an idle shell or ten. Like a bigger renice that shuts off when the process stops being idle.
- throwawaybutwhy 5y ago
  What downtime? There were rumors of degraded video chat capacity, which is a nuisance but not a catastrophe.
  - stephencoyner 5y ago
    Notifications didn't work until about 5PM PDT for me
    - dorchadas 5y ago
      It didn't work on mobile for me in Ireland for about an hour or so -- couldn't get a call or messages out on WiFi or data, but it worked perfectly fine on my laptop.
- aaomidi 5y ago
  Just mainly me and two other people. Specifically happened to US users.
- idsout 5y ago
  I also had minor issues for an hour or so. Messages not sending or loading for example.
  - manquer 5y ago
    A lot of could also be related to down graded DNS resolver performance due to DDoSing by FB clients.
    - aaomidi 5y ago
      Nah I have 3 telegram accounts. Two were fine. One was dead. Specifically the one that I had signed up with in 2013
- executive 5y ago
  Sending videos was extremely slow/timing out for ~1 hour, ~24h ago
- BTCOG 5y ago
  Same. No issues.
- pdimitar 5y ago
  I was sending a few short videos to several contacts (during the FB outage) and the upload speed was something like 20KB/s, whereas normally 2MB are uploaded before I blink. My account is from 2016, if not 2015 even.
- stiltzkin 5y ago
  I have an old account but images did not load correctly. Seems the experience is not the same on other countries.
znpy 5y ago
On my phone i only had problems with media, text worked okay. On my laptop instead it was slow until I enabled traffic over ipv6, then it went mostly okay.

whimsicalism 5y ago

There were definitely some issues some time after noon PST