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Re:Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Fa... by i_like_apis on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @03:51PM (#28764700)
Even luckier, their system handled the load apparently. Hopefully their eng team is proud of it.
Re:Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Fa... by aaomidi on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @03:58PM (#28764790)
Other than the 1:30 hour downtime that happened to a lot of old accounts.

I actually think it's genius if they throttled old accounts just to let new people see how good telegram is.

Re:Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Fa... by toby- on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @04:00PM (#28764814)
Source re 'old accounts'?

I have an account as old as you can get, and had no problems, so I'd be interested in proof of a disproportionate impact on older accounts.

Re:Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Fa... by throwawaybutwhy on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @04:10PM (#28764933)
What downtime? There were rumors of degraded video chat capacity, which is a nuisance but not a catastrophe.
Re:Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Fa... by stephencoyner on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @04:27PM (#28765147)
Notifications didn't work until about 5PM PDT for me
Re:Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Fa... by dorchadas on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @04:31PM (#28765196)
It didn't work on mobile for me in Ireland for about an hour or so -- couldn't get a call or messages out on WiFi or data, but it worked perfectly fine on my laptop.
Re:Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Fa... by executive on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @04:13PM (#28764970)
Sending videos was extremely slow/timing out for ~1 hour, ~24h ago
Re:Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Fa... by pdimitar on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @05:20PM (#28765763)
I was sending a few short videos to several contacts (during the FB outage) and the upload speed was something like 20KB/s, whereas normally 2MB are uploaded before I blink.

My account is from 2016, if not 2015 even.

Re:Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Fa... by idsout on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @04:11PM (#28764939)
I also had minor issues for an hour or so. Messages not sending or loading for example.
Re:Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Fa... by manquer on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @04:14PM (#28764975)
A lot of could also be related to down graded DNS resolver performance due to DDoSing by FB clients.
Re:Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Fa... by aaomidi on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @04:38PM (#28765299)
Nah I have 3 telegram accounts. Two were fine. One was dead. Specifically the one that I had signed up with in 2013
Re:Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Fa... by ksaj on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @10:14PM (#28768409)
I wonder if they meant longest idle accounts. It would make sense to throttle them if they're just running tmux with an idle shell or ten. Like a bigger renice that shuts off when the process stops being idle.
Re:Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Fa... by aaomidi on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @04:08PM (#28764913)
Just mainly me and two other people.

Specifically happened to US users.

Re:Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Fa... by stiltzkin on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @05:25PM (#28765814)
I have an old account but images did not load correctly. Seems the experience is not the same on other countries.
Re:Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Fa... by BTCOG on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @05:00PM (#28765552)
Same. No issues.
Re:Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Fa... by znpy on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @04:34PM (#28765238)
On my phone i only had problems with media, text worked okay.

On my laptop instead it was slow until I enabled traffic over ipv6, then it went mostly okay.

Re:Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Fa... by TallonRain on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @05:16PM (#28765726)
Not really, plenty of users were unable to connect for some time. Just about my whole friend group and I myself were unable to use Telegram for about an hour or so around the peak of the surge.
Re:Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Fa... by whimsicalism on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @04:10PM (#28764929)
There were definitely some issues some time after noon PST