Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderA lot of negativity, but despite its limitations I already love it. (OK love's too much, but it's a big improvement for me at least.) I don't use whatsapp with a huge number of people, but some of them I talk to daily on it. When we're both behind a computer (work hours, sometimes outside them) we'll often move to Skype to be able to type quicker. Skype's pretty horrible on phones (for me and most people I know), so…
If you're here, reading this, and using WhatsApp for any Operations channel of any kind: what are you doing?
duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26516099
really? This is not newsworthy at all.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 267
- Total comments
- 180
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-01-21 | Whatsapp WebFirst breakout · Best thread | benjlang | 131 | 108 |
| 2015-01-21 | WhatsApp Chrome App | sleepyhead | 5 | 0 |
| 2015-01-21 | Whatsapp Web | niico | 4 | 0 |
| 2015-03-12 | WhatsApp web now works on Firefox+co | nodata | 2 | 0 |
| 2015-08-20 | Whatsapp Web is now available for iOS too | MichaelSiddi | 2 | 0 |
| 2015-08-20 | WhatsApp Web for iOS | tbolse | 6 | 0 |
| 2015-09-04 | WhatsApp Web | Eidel | 3 | 1 |
| 2019-06-11 | Whatsapp web and desktop not working | mhretab | 1 | 1 |
| 2021-03-19 | WhatsApp Is Down | tosh | 7 | 1 |
| 2023-06-05 | WhatsApp DownHall induction · Latest 20+ point return | Avlin67 | 105 | 67 |
| 2026-02-07 | Web.whatsapp.com appears to be having issues syncing and sending messages | sabujp | 1 | 2 |