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by mytailorisrich 2086 days ago
Latest news report suggest that this is Excel spreadsheets' size limit.
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spuz 2086 days ago
Where did you see this?
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benaadams 2086 days ago
https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1313046638915706880

> The reason was apparently that the database is managed in Excel and the number of columns had reached the maximum.

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zelos 2086 days ago
>The problem was caused by an Excel spreadsheet reaching its maximum file size, which stopped new names being added in an automated process.

> The files have now been split into smaller multiple files to prevent the issue happening again.

Wow

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