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WhatsApp is stopping support for all Symbian, Nokia S40, BlackBerry phones. Phones running older versions of Windows, Android and iOS operating systems will also not be supported.
The shutdown of the service for these devices and platforms will happen at the end of the year, December 31, 2016. https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/en/general/20951556

Android users still on Android 2.1 and Android 2.2 are no longer be able to use WhatsApp.

Windows phone users will have to upgrade beyond Windows Phone 7.1 to continue enjoying services. iOS 6 are not be supported, which  affects those Apple users who are holding back from updating the OS.

The devices that WhatsApp will no longer be supported are: Nokia Asha 201, Nokia Asha 205 Chat Edition, Nokia Asha 206, Nokia Asha 208, Nokia Asha 210, Nokia Asha 300, Nokia Asha 301, Nokia Asha 302, Nokia Asha 303, Nokia Asha 305, Nokia Asha 306, Nokia Asha 308, Nokia Asha 309, Nokia Asha 310, Nokia Asha 311, Nokia Asha 515, Nokia Asha 500, Nokia Asha 501, Nokia Asha 502, Nokia Asha 503, Nokia Asha 230, Nokia C3-00, Nokia C3-01, Nokia X2-01, Nokia X3-02, Nokia X2-00, Nokia X7, Nokia E6, Nokia N8, Nokia C6, Nokia C7, Nokia E7, Nokia 500, Nokia 600, Nokia 603, Nokia 700, Nokia 701, Nokia 808, Nokia 5800, Nokia 5530, Nokia 5230, Nokia 5233, Nokia 5235, Nokia N97, Nokia N97 mini, Nokia X6, Nokia X5-01, Nokia C6, Nokia C5-03, Samsung i8910 Omnia HD, Sony Ericsson Satio, Sony Ericsson Vivaz, Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro, Nokia 5700, Nokia 6110, Nokia 6120, Nokia 6121, Nokia 6124, Nokia 6700, Nokia 6290, Nokia E51, Nokia E63, Nokia E66, Nokia E71, Nokia E90 Communicator, Nokia N76, Nokia N81, Nokia N81 8GB, Nokia N82, Nokia N95, Nokia N95 8GB, Nokia 5320, Nokia 5630, Nokia 5730, Nokia 6210, Nokia 6220, Nokia 6650 fold, Nokia 6710 Navigator, Nokia 6720, Nokia 6730, Nokia 6760 Slide, Nokia 6790 Surge, Nokia C5, Nokia E52, Nokia E55, Nokia E72, Nokia E73, Nokia E75, Nokia E5, Nokia N78, Nokia N79, Nokia N85, Nokia N86 8MP, Nokia N96, Samsung GT-i8510, Samsung GT-I7110, Samsung SGH-L870, Samsung SGH-G810 and Samsung SGH-iNNN.

UPDATE: You won't be able to use WhatsApp on the following platforms for:

Nokia Symbian S60 after June 30, 2017
BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry 10 after December 31, 2017
Windows Phone 8.0 and older after December 31, 2017
Nokia S40 after December 31, 2018
Android versions 2.3.7 and older after February 1, 2020

Personal info sharing
WhatsApp will share your phone number with Facebook, you have 30 days to opt-out. https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/general/26000016

Transferring Chat history
check out http://www.whatsapp.com/faq/en/general/21002842

Author Topic: Whatsapp App Discussion Thread  (Read 441174 times)

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Re: Whatsapp App Discussion Thread
« Reply #2600 on: October 04, 2021, 06:41:20 PM »
Still down for me.

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Re: Whatsapp App Discussion Thread
« Reply #2601 on: October 04, 2021, 06:44:05 PM »
WhatsApp is working for me but not my wife

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Re: Whatsapp App Discussion Thread
« Reply #2602 on: October 04, 2021, 06:44:57 PM »
WhatsApp is back up for me

On a group with 10 people my message was only delivered to 2 of them

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« Reply #2603 on: October 04, 2021, 06:45:25 PM »
Worked for a few seconds.
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« Reply #2604 on: October 04, 2021, 06:51:21 PM »
It seems to be fully back now
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Re: Whatsapp App Discussion Thread
« Reply #2605 on: October 04, 2021, 07:05:37 PM »
It seems to be fully back now

Not sure about that

On a group with 10 people my message was only delivered to 2 of them

3 have still not been delivered

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Re: Whatsapp App Discussion Thread
« Reply #2606 on: October 04, 2021, 07:08:56 PM »
WA up and running

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« Reply #2607 on: October 04, 2021, 07:11:35 PM »

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Re: Whatsapp App Discussion Thread
« Reply #2608 on: October 04, 2021, 07:14:30 PM »
Now we all felt what trump is feeling for the past year.

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« Reply #2609 on: October 04, 2021, 07:14:57 PM »


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Re: Whatsapp App Discussion Thread
« Reply #2610 on: October 05, 2021, 02:13:20 AM »
They have an army of people at their disposal, you really think this is just a bad network config? Were closing in on 4 hours now
https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/04/networking-traffic/outage/

Confirmed, was a network misconfiguration.

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Re: Whatsapp App Discussion Thread
« Reply #2612 on: October 05, 2021, 09:04:38 AM »
Crazy that FB, IG, and WA now all go down in tandem.
Seems like a poor design choice.



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Re: Whatsapp App Discussion Thread
« Reply #2613 on: October 05, 2021, 09:15:00 AM »
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« Reply #2614 on: October 05, 2021, 09:18:13 AM »

Any tech company of Facebook's size has this. Google, Microsoft, Amazon. It's a function of scale, not arrogance. (Though I fully agree that Facebook is toxic and really needs to die.)

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« Reply #2615 on: October 05, 2021, 10:38:59 AM »
Any tech company of Facebook's size has this. Google, Microsoft, Amazon. It's a function of scale, not arrogance. (Though I fully agree that Facebook is toxic and really needs to die.)
Single point of failure??? No, not really. It goes against all the rules of proper IT and security planning.

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Re: Whatsapp App Discussion Thread
« Reply #2616 on: October 05, 2021, 10:45:57 AM »
Single point of failure??? No, not really. It goes against all the rules of proper IT and security planning.
It wasn't a single point of failure - they just updated/misconfigured all of their backbone routers at the same time so their entire network was taken offline. If anything it was a process failure, not an architectural flaw.

Every large tech company which owns its own data centers has similar network topology. Do you really think that Amazon routes any of its traffic through e.g. Google's data centers?

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« Reply #2617 on: October 05, 2021, 10:46:21 AM »
Single point of failure??? No, not really. It goes against all the rules of proper IT and security planning.
And the fact that this seems to be a relatively frequent occurrence, brings everything the company owns down, and seems to happen much more often, much more widespread, and much longer than the other FAANGs also tells me something is seriously wrong with the setup.
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« Reply #2618 on: October 05, 2021, 10:48:38 AM »
And the fact that this seems to be a relatively frequent occurrence, brings everything the company owns down, and seems to happen much more often, much more widespread, and much longer than the other FAANGs also tells me something is seriously wrong with the setup.
Lol outages like this happen all the time at other big tech companies, they're just not as consumer facing so you're not aware of it. For example, Microsoft's Azure has network related outages all the time (talking from personal experience), but they rarely make the news because they don't directly affect as many people.

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« Reply #2619 on: October 05, 2021, 10:51:07 AM »
Lol outages like this happen all the time at other big tech companies, they're just not as consumer facing so you're not aware of it. For example, Microsoft's Azure has network related outages all the time (talking from personal experience), but they rarely make the news because they don't directly affect as many people.
So, you're proving my point that something is wrong at FB?
When is the last time that everything consumer facing at Google or Microsoft went down? Versus the several times a year that everything consumer facing goes down at FB?
Save your time, I don't answer PM. Post it in the forum and a dedicated DDF'er will get back to you as soon as possible.