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WhatsApp Outage
- ActorNightly 3y agoInstagram down as well.
- maxloh 3y agoEverything else works fine for me, but the stories I shared 18 hours ago have vanished. On the webpage, Instagram's API returns a 502 error when I try to view them.
- rrr_oh_man 3y agoThe horror!
- StressedDev 3y agoThank you for the helpful report of your experience. I liked how you dug into the API and got the error code.
- xyst 3y agoSorry guys, I rm -rf ‘d the real database instead of backups!
- Funes- 3y agoWhenever these massive services get any substantial downtime I fantasize about it extending over a large amount of time. Just imagine getting rid of Instagram and TikTok for a while, considering the insurmountable addiction most people have to them. I bet the massive change in behaviour would be palpable very quickly, especially in kids who've known nothing else.
- brohee 3y agoAll meta properties look affected.
- jbverschoor 3y agoYeah, got a whole bunch of unread
- mikece 3y agoProof that services written in Erlang CAN go down! (Though it's probably DNS...)
- lxgr 3y agoYes: They are software running on hardware, after all.
- haolez 3y agoIs it still written in Erlang?
- phyrex 3y agoErlang and Rust!
- ActorNightly 3y agoCount the number of unsafes in a Rust code base to see how secure the code is.
- mikece 3y agoSerious question: is making a joke frowned upon on HN?
- fullstop 3y agoGenerally, yes, although if the joke is nerdy enough it is sometimes liked. It's a fine line to walk, and you're probably better off not doing it.
- lxgr 3y agoBut the thrill of having walked it and lived (in terms of karma)... Nothing like it!
- josefresco 3y ago
- avnfish 3y agoDoes Meta provide a status page for its consumer products?
- robofanatic 3y agohttps://metastatus.com/ https://metastatus.com/ Not sure if it officially belongs to Meta though
- ceejayoz 3y agoIt does, they link to it at https://developers.facebook.com/support/ https://developers.facebook.com/support/.
- rsstack 3y ago"Status and outages of Meta business products" This is for their business products, not consumer "products" (where _we_ are the product). However, they tend to go down and up together, as they're tied to the same data and servers.
- HenryBemis 3y agoI whois-ed it. metastatus.com Registered to Domain Admin Email domain@fb.com Last Updated Oct 03, 2023 Expires On Feb 22, 2025 Registrar RegistrarSEC, LLC Name Servers ns-1064.awsdns-05.org ns-1803.awsdns-33.co.uk The email clearly points at FB.
- jeffbee 3y agoIt's not a consumer products! It's a transformative business platform that helps enterprises of any size engage audiences, accelerate sales and drive better customer support outcomes on the platform with more than 2 billion users around the world!
- rrr_oh_man 3y agoIt’s basically OnlyFBFans — expose yourself, but don’t get paid
- plibither8 3y agoI'll be that commenter this time, all green here! https://metastatus.com/ https://metastatus.com/
- robofanatic 3y agoNot all green for me there! https://metastatus.com/whatsapp-business-api https://metastatus.com/whatsapp-business-api Major disruptions: Cloud API Apr 3 2024 2:10 PM EDT We are currently experiencing an outage impacting service on Cloud API. This issue started at 04-03-2024 11:10 AM PST. Our engineering teams are investigating the issue. We will provide another update within 4 hours or sooner if additional information is available
- thrusong 3y agoCan't send any messages on Messenger on my phone, but facebook.com appears to be working fine.
- netsharc 3y agoCurious that since it's the .in domain, the map just shows India. But if you replace it with .com, or .de, it will show the map of those countries (with .de it redirects to a German version of the domain). Someone said the other week that downdetector just monitors how many people check their site for outages, and if in a five minute time period 20000 people are looking at them to see if WhatsApp is down... then, that's what they report.
- politelemon 3y agoI wonder if that behaviour could be engineered to fake an outage, though I'm unsure as to what end.
- HenryBemis 3y agoIt wouldn't be much of a sabotage since the users would actually be able to access the 'service impacted'. Perhaps it could affect a stock price, but someone who sells a stock (i.e. Meta in this case) because WhatsApp had a 1-5-10-30mins downtime, is doing themselves a disservice and us a favor :)
- lvass 3y ago>and us a favor :) So there is a plan.
- callalex 3y agoAs I always say, downdetector has successfully predicted 20 of the last 3 outages. It really is the perfect website for the ad-supported revenue model.
- ajsnigrutin 3y agoI mean.. let's be fair, you open that site only when something isn't working, and are curious, if it's your phone/pc to blame, or if others have the same problem.
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- xyst 3y ago[flagged]
- boredemployee 3y agoIn the end, what platform is free from scammers?
- lenerdenator 3y ago4chan. Hear me out: No sane person would accept business opportunities presented there as anything other than a scam. Since this keeps people from engaging with potential scams, scams cannot actually work as scams. Thus, scammers are relegated to simple sh*tposting.
- rizky05 3y ago[dead]
- radlad 3y agoIt's used for much more than that. I know many health care providers who use it for internal communication. (No need to lecture me - I'm not a health care provider, or a decision maker.)
- zild3d 3y agohuh? It's the "default messaging app" for many countries, more than SMS use etc
- tremarley 3y agoYes
- mkl95 3y agoWhatsapp is kinda ubiquitous in some EMEA countries where stuff like iMessage is virtually unused
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- w0z_ 3y agoMeta is experiencing downtime / routing issues in general. Reels on IG is broken atm.
- duhast2020 3y agoThis will die out when Apple enabled RCS.
- Hamuko 3y agololno Why the hell are you going to abandon the app that you have and where all of your friends are? What incentive do you have? RCS isn't even feature-complete compared to WhatsApp and has for example no encryption.
- Zizizizz 3y agoIt does have encryption in Google Messages like WhatsApp https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/google-enables-end-to-end-encryption-for-androids-default-sms-rcs-app/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/google-enables-end-t...
- Hamuko 3y agoThat's not RCS though, that's Google Messages. It's a platform-specific encryption feature not part of RCS in any way and will not be a part of the implementation when Apple adds RCS.
- AAAAaccountAAAA 3y agoRCS has enough features for most people, and it will be pre-installed. After people will realize that mobile operating systems can do modern texting without any crutches from their respective app stores, they will increasingly not bother with them, and that will make Whatsapp to gradually be less and less important in an accelerating pace. Those who actually care about e2ee don't use Whatsapp, because it is closed source and it nags users into enabling plaintext cloud backups. Of course, if Apple's RCS implementation won't work without carrier-provided RCS, it will be dead in arrival outside North America and China.
- asdaq1312512 3y ago> if Apple's RCS implementation won't work without carrier-provided RCS Could you explain? If RCS works without carrier support, why would Google rely on carrier support in the first place? (It seems for phone number verification, they rely on SMS. I'm confused.)
- nexoft 3y agoThe issue I noticed is I still could make calls from and to local numbers (+33 to +33) but not from/to foreign numbers (+33 to +else)
- lxgr 3y agoThat's odd – I wouldn't expect WhatsApp to use the phone number for any internal routing-related decisions (or as anything other than an account identifier in general). If it's a routing issue, that could explain the problems being localized, but I wouldn't expect the actual account phone number to have any bearing on it. I've had no issues using it all day across several countries for both calls and texts.
- ramadhani786 3y ago[flagged]