I don’t think there’s a status page for WhatsApp, but Meta has this for the business side of things: <a href="https://metastatus.com/whatsapp-business-api" rel="nofollow">https://metastatus.com/whatsapp-business-api</a>
Even though I do have WhatsApp I wouldn't have noticed without this HN headline.<p>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.<p>Makes me happy to see how I've actually managed to rid myself of WhatsApp for the most part.
Seems like a good time to plug Session: <a href="https://getsession.org/" rel="nofollow">https://getsession.org/</a><p>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.<p>"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.<p>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.
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.