Tell HN: WhatsApp Is Down?

22 points by worldsavior 2y ago ↗ HN

Seems to me it is.

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carlossouza 2y ago ↗

Yes

PeterBarrett 2y ago ↗

It is indeed, worldwide outage.

profwalkstr 2y ago ↗

According to downdetector, it looks it is

srejk 2y ago ↗

Some Meta SREs having a fun day.

iquatemb 2y ago ↗

Down for me, South America

aflag 2y ago ↗

Yes in the uk

julkali 2y ago ↗

can confirm, europe

rvz 2y ago ↗

The thing is that users would rather wait for FB, WhatsApp, Instagram, Threads, etc to get back up than to sign up onto another platform.

Now they run back to more centralized platforms like Twitter, TikTok, etc to complain all about it and vice versa because they never deleted their accounts in the first place.

jacooper 2y ago ↗

Let's be realistic, being down for a couple of hours with no oblivious competitor (with the network effect needed) isn't going to hurt whatsapp.

huevosabio 2y ago ↗

Confirmed in the UK

tomsmeding 2y ago ↗

Actual article about the outage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36792888

jacooper 2y ago ↗

This is from June 16

worldsavior 2y ago ↗

foobarbazprod 2y ago ↗

I don't think they don't have a public status page. I found a business API portal that should serve as a sufficient proxy: https://metastatus.com/whatsapp-business-api

jacooper 2y ago ↗

Looks like it's back again