Ólafur Waage on Nostr: Not this again. This is not a memory efficiency thing! WhatsApp is not storing the ...
Not this again.
This is not a memory efficiency thing!
WhatsApp is not storing the group size variable as an unsigned char. Because that only goes to 255.
It's just an int and there's a programmer that finds the number 256 to be neat.
How do I know? This is an old story. Current limit is 1024.
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