Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users

Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users by humanrebar on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @07:13AM (#10225801)

> Surely they need 50 engineers because their product is fairly simple and there's no need to have more engineers than features.

Right. There's not even a way to adjust notification levels based on person or group. I ended up turning off notifications for the whole app, so it stopped serving the same use cases that text messages do. People still need to text or call me if they need an urgent answer.

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Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users by leoedin on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @08:33AM (#10226055)

On the Android app there is. Choose the "View Contact" or "View Group" menu option from the top right and then change that contact or group's notification settings.

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Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users by humanrebar on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @09:58AM (#10226597)

Ah, right. Thanks. Still, if there were 60 developers, could they have this feature on all clients.

That was just an example anyway. I could easily have pointed to the ambiguous end-to-end encryption (are my messages even being encrypted?) or the lack of encryption in group chats.

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Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users by mlazaroff on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @08:09AM (#10225972)

You can mute an individual chat for up to a year.

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