Fucking normies.
Fucking normies
Camden Gutierrez
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Elijah Bennett
255 would have been more understandable
Austin Long
Yup I'm sure WhatsApp just needed to save space so they used a char instead of a short.
Ian Allen
I assume each participant gets an ID local to the group chat
Then 256 checks out
David Nelson
>storing the ID in 2 bytes would have been too expensive
Juan Kelly
With most mobile contracts still limited to several hundred megabytes or single digit gigabytes of traffic, every effort to cut down bandwidth should be welcomed.
Ian Carter
The difference between 100 and 256 is meaningless in the real world, nobody is going to do 100+ group chats
They did 256 because LOL IM A NURRRRD GET IT GEEK GEEK 8-BIT COMPUTING
James Morgan
Adam Collins
>They did 256 because LOL IM A NURRRRD GET IT GEEK GEEK 8-BIT COMPUTING
do you have autism? honest question
William Johnson
t.brogrammer chad
Noah Perry
He is right though.
Easton Morris
Gonna add The Independent to my blacklist.
Thank you.
Tyler Carter
Why did you quote me
() for this?
Oliver Thompson
Because it wasn't clear from the OP that the source was The Independent.
Jack Myers
Get the memeexperts on that number.
It's probably important in some jewish scripture
Grayson Rodriguez
>Suzanne Goldenberg
You can't make this shit up
Tyler Evans
literally WhatsIRC by now
Liam Cooper
IRC had unlimited channel sizes since the ancient days.
Jaxson Martinez
Yeah because a chat with 0 people makes a lot of sense?
Jason Hughes
So you're suggesting they bit pack the ID with something else to save some part of a byte? They could do that but compared to saving a byte its a lot of effort. And who knows. Maybe they use languages where bit operations are a hassle somewhere in the pipeline.
Cameron Martin
Well yeah, when you're arab and need to contacting the Jihad.
Carter Kelly
>nobody is going to use feature
>so lets introduce an arbitary made up limit
or they could just use the existing limit
Thomas Hughes
user could you share your blacklist. I always think about making one but I never get around to it. I trust you have good judgement on these things if you're blocking them in this situation.
Kayden Ross
> oddly specific number
Fuck do they even interview anyone or ask questions?
Literally just ask anyone who can code hello world and they know why it's 256
Brayden Diaz
You know, I keep thinking, you guys know the phrase behind pic related? Most of you oldfags should know.
But isnt whatsapp exactly how it would turn into if EVERYONE started using it, and started talking less?
Everyone is writing tiny notes to eachother and are being deaf mutes to eachother as well.
Wyatt Brown
Do you physically block their IP's or do you just refrain from interacting with them?
Leo Cook
It's mostly just in my head.
Here's some inspiration:
techdirt.com
en.wikipedia.org
Pic related.
Also all state funded media.
The latter.
Josiah Nelson
>nobody is going to do 100+ group chats
There are two groups keeping track of local police officers in the rural area I live in. This lets us avoid a few speeding tickets. We needed to do two groups because the first one filled up pretty quickly.
Colton Phillips
why only use one byte?
Alexander Collins
>nobody is going to do 100+ group chats
t. Sup Forums loner
Camden Perez
Of course it does fucking dumbass. If you have a chat with 2 people and they bot abandon it, you need a way to understand that it has 0 people and should be deleted.
Jeremiah Hall
#!/usr/bin/env pseudo
onLeaveChat(channel) {
if channel.countParticipants() == 1 {
channel.deleteFromServers()
}
}
One possible way to flag channels for deletion once the last person leaves.
Aiden Collins
>nobody is going to do 100+ group chats
>t. le social shutin
I live in a residential cluster with gatekeeper. We have a WhatsApp group to coordinate among neighboors. 170+ houses. If a couple is living a house and both are in the group, then you get 250~ people.
Cameron Collins
kys
Michael Harris
>I don't have any friends
>I bet people who have friends talk to 250 of them at once!
in your mind, how does this work?
Benjamin Lewis
Not that user, but groups this big are more like big community boards to keep people in the loop of whatever is going on.
Kinda of a big deal they increased the size of the groups since most people have whatsapp and it's way to keep them informed of local shit.
Jackson King
WOW! Look how technology is changing the world. In a few years will be 512!