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2021-03-10 17:43:09 Error "Chat is no longer available"

When you open any chat in Telegram, sometimes you get the message “the chat is no longer available” in response.

This is due to one of three reasons:

1. You violated the rules of the group chat, and you were blocked by admin

2. The chat has been deleted or blocked

Either your interlocutor deleted the chat, or blocked you.

3. Shut down Telegram

Sometimes this happens due to interruptions in the work of the messenger. Sometimes because of bad internet. You can reload the application or your internet connection. Open / Comment

2021-03-02 19:15:06 Telegram needs money

Not so long ago, Pavel Durov announced that the messenger is going begin to monetize through advertising.

However, after the cancel of TON, the company had large debts to investors. Until April, Telegram has to pay investors more than half a billion dollars.

Therefore, Telegram attracts a billion dollars through the issue of bonds.

According to the PwC audit, Telegram bears significant financial risks. In 2018, losses amounted to $ 172 million, in 2019 - $ 150 million.

In 2020, the company also had a deficit of 172 million.

By offering to invest in the company's five-year bonds, Telegram openly informs investors about the risks. And it offers various ways of monetization, including advertising in large channels, paid stickers, offers for corporate clients.

Most of the funds in the amount of $ 684 million are needed to pay off debts to investors, and the rest - to continue the company's operations.

The US citizens will not have an opportunity to take part in this investment. Open / Comment

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#promoted Open / Comment

2021-03-01 17:14:16 How to add a widget

Telegram widgets appeared in the last update. You can customize the widget with shortcuts, avatars, by clicking on which, you will be open a chat with the selected interlocutor. Or you can make the widget showing the latest dialogues.

To add a widget, hold down the background on the home screen with your finger, click on the "+" in the upper right corner and select Telegram.

On Android, chats and messages in the widget are updated in real time, and the widget can be resized to your liking.

On iOS, the size of the widget is fixed, and the data is updated less often - this is due to system limitations of the platform. Open / Comment

2021-02-24 14:51:59 Recent update: Auto-Delete, Widgets, Expiring Invite Links and More

You can now set an auto-delete timer in any chat, which will erase messages for all participants 24 hours or 7 days after they are sent.

New home screen widgets for iOS and Android let you preview messages and instantly open chats.

Group and channel admins can create additional invite links with a limited duration, number of uses, or both.

Groups approaching the limit of 200k members can now convert to Broadcast Groups that allow unlimited members.

For more information on all these features and their uses, read our blog:
https://telegram.org/blog/autodelete-inv2 Open / Comment

2021-02-17 13:40:34 How Apple makes troubles for Telegram

1. Long check for updates.

Telegram for iOS is periodically updated later than for Android. Because Apple makes demands to remove pirate content etc.

Pavel Durov wrote on his channel that Telegram ought to block some channels to get approve for the emergency update.

2. The second point originates in the already mentioned censorship by Apple. Pirated content - music, films, TV series, books in free access violate copyright. To comply with the law, Apple is forcing Telegram to block channels with such content.

3. Pavel Durov said that he would like to make a game service based on Telegram. But Apple banned the idea because, according to their rules, games must be placed in the AppStore. The same fate befell Facebook.

Therefore, there are only simple game bots on Telegram. Open / Comment

2021-02-12 17:18:21 Why users shouldn’t worry about ads on Telegram

Pavel Durov has written on his channel why those who use another apps shouldn’t worry if they choose to Telegram.

1. There will be no ads in chats on Telegram. Users who rely on Telegram as a messaging app, not a social network, will never see ads. Private chats and group chats are and will always be ad-free. Ads are being considered only in large one-to-many channels (like this one), which do not exist in any other messaging app. So users ditching older apps for Telegram won’t increase the number of ads in their lives.

2. User data will not be used to target ads. We believe that collecting private data from users to target ads the way WhatsApp-Facebook do is immoral. We like the approach of privacy-conscious services like DuckDuckGo: monetizing services without collecting information about users. So if we introduce ads in one-to-many-channels, they will be contextual – based on the topic of the channel, not targeted based on any user data.

3. We are fixing ads that are already here. In most markets, content creators on Telegram already monetize their content by selling promotional posts in their channels. This is a chaotic market with multiple third-party ad networks pushing intrusive ads that create a negative user experience. We want to fix this situation by offering a privacy-conscious alternative for channel owners. Open / Comment

2021-02-08 10:02:15 Importing chats to Telegram

The chat import appeared at the proper time. WhatsApp has changed their Terms recently. So many users decided to use Telegram instead
WhatsApp.

Pavel Durov was able to identify the need of users in time. So there was developed a function to import chats from other messengers to Telegram.

In order not to lose your correspondence when deleting WhatsApp, you can transfer them to Telegram.

iOS: you need to open a page with information about a contact or group, click "Export Chat" and select Telegram from the "Share" menu.

Android: inside the WhatsApp chat, you need to click "More" -> Export chat, select Telegram from the "Share" menu. Open / Comment

2021-02-02 10:08:53 Recent updates and news

Move your message history from other apps to Telegram

Millions of people are switching every day and now their old chats from WhatsApp, Line and KakaoTalk can come with them – along with all their friends and family.

Secret chats, groups you created and call history can be deleted for all sides at any time.

Voice Chats now appear at the top of your Call History page, and both members and admins can individually adjust other users’ microphone levels.

After one of your contacts joins Telegram, you can open the chat and send a friendly greeting sticker with one tap.

More info:
https://telegram.org/blog/move-history Open / Comment

2021-01-26 16:11:06 Telegram does not use Amazon servers

There was a question in Durov's chat. What happens if AWS (Amazon Web Services) stops serving Telegram if it doesn’t delete some posts and channels?

Pavel Durov did not answer the question, but a few days later he wrote this:

“Telegram does not rely on Amazon or other third party cloud services. We have created our own secure cloud infrastructure distributed around the world.

It took us several years to develop a technology which could instantly synchronize encrypted data between our data centers in a way to make it useless to hack into any data center and take over servers.

The encryption keys we used to secure Telegram Cloud are segmented and never stored in the same location as the information they protect.

As a result, our approach is more advanced and secure than what Amazon or any of these cloud services offer. And since we have our own infrastructure, no Amazon can block us.

Plus, we have no illusions about Amazon. ... When Russia banned Telegram in 2018 (read more here https://t.me/durov/80), we installed the independent proxy servers on AWS Amazon so that our Russian users could communicate freely on Telegram.

Amazon quickly denied us access to its services. At that time, Amazon managers told us they had to do this to protect their business, but as a result, they also opposed censorship.

Other providers like Digital Ocean have been much more helpful when it comes to setting up proxy servers to protect freedoms in Russia and elsewhere. "

It turns out that Telegram has been using its own servers for a long time and is completely independent. A big step forward. Open / Comment