I don’t think there’s a status page for WhatsApp, but Meta has this for the business side of things: https://metastatus.com/whatsapp-business-api
Even though I do have WhatsApp I wouldn't have noticed without this HN headline.
Everyone I message with is via iMessage or Signal nowadays and I only have WhatsApp because I am part of a few sports clubs which have a WhatsApp group but we don't chat enough for me to notice a downtime like today.
Makes me happy to see how I've actually managed to rid myself of WhatsApp for the most part.
Thankfully there is still email, which never went down globally
That's why centralization is bad, especially for now-become critical services such as WA.
Seems like a good time to plug Session: https://getsession.org/
Open source, doesn't require a phone number, and a big strength is that it's decentralized, which makes it much less vulnerable to outages like this.
"Session utilises the decentralised Oxen Service Node Network to store and route messages. This means that unlike P2P messaging applications you can message Session users when they are offline. This network consists of community operated nodes which are stationed all over the world. Service nodes are organised into collections of small co-operative groups called swarms.
Swarms offer additional redundancy and message delivery guarantees even if some service nodes become unreachable. By using this network, Session doesn’t have a central point of failure, and Session’s creators have no capacity to collect or store personal information about people using the app"
Coincidental timing for me- anecdotally I noticed a few WhatsApp commercials during the Monday Night Football game last evening. Meta was hyping up how its end to end encrypted. That’s the first time I have seen national tv adverting for WhatsApp. There also were commercials for Meta’s new headsets so maybe it was part of a larger spend.
Wife just received account registration sms that new device has been registered. Anyone else experiencing that? Error? Worse?
Yep, actually enjoying the lack of notifications right now.
Though for my closest friends and family we still have Signal as backup.
It's back for me personally in South Africa.
Works for me with VPN but not without
Works again now, at about 08:46 UTC.
Seems to work on desktop, doesn’t sync with mobile though
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right may be the server down or maintenance..all over the globe issue is raising
I'm amazed people still use WhatsApp. We mostly abandoned it in the United States back in the mid 2010's. I mostly use it with friends over in european countries, just like I do with people in China with WeChat.
Time to talk about matrix.org and Element not Signal and definitely not Telegram...