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WhatsAppSoftware

by Meta

Who uses, recommends or left WhatsApp, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

1 person

Who disliked it

Founder and author of Stratechery, a subscription newsletter and podcast network analysing the business and strategy of technology.
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WhatsApp used to be absolutely rock solid, and now both the Mac app and iPhone app are buggy messes.

A post about the decline in quality of WhatsApp's desktop and phone apps.

2026-03-17·x.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

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The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.