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DavideNL on Feb 22, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: WhatsApp is down

Maybe Whatsapp can't handle the massive 'remove account' requests? :-)

raverbashing on Feb 22, 2014 [–]

It would be interesting if that was the problem

For example, the "remove account" is not as efficient (for example, there's extra locking performed), and since removals are thought to be rare nobody bothered with its performance.

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