# Node-red-contrib-whin nodes are down.. may be forever... (banned from whatsapp)

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-whin-nodes-are-down-may-be-forever-banned-from-whatsapp/58256>\
**Category:** Share Your Nodes\
**Created:** [13 February 2022 11:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-whin-nodes-are-down-may-be-forever-banned-from-whatsapp/58256 "2022-02-13T11:35:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![alsak0de](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/alsak0de/32/52600_2.png) [@alsak0de](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/alsak0de)\
**Post date:** [13 February 2022 11:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-whin-nodes-are-down-may-be-forever-banned-from-whatsapp/58256/1 "2022-02-13T11:35:05Z")

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Hi there,

I'm afraid our shared whatsapp gateway number has been banned from whatsapp and won't be sending messages anymore nor it will be managing the signup requests.

We'll think an alternative through but, for now, the service is down.  
We're grateful to the hundreds of users and sorry for not being able to continue delivering their messages.

I hope we'll come back soon with some alternative. For now, we need to continue working with Telegram which is way more open to these type of communications.

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**Author:** ![alsak0de](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/alsak0de/32/52600_2.png) [@alsak0de](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/alsak0de)\
**Post date:** [13 February 2022 18:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-whin-nodes-are-down-may-be-forever-banned-from-whatsapp/58256/2 "2022-02-13T18:37:13Z")

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HI again.. turns out it is working again.  
We've added a control against service abuse which seemed to be the cause of the ban.  
Limit is set now to 20 messages per hour and user.