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2022-04-24 22:07:29 Telegram Premium Account

According to the information Telegram Info has, the upcoming updates for the Telegram app will introduce paid Premium Accounts with exclusive features.

Previously, Pavel Durov told the team is considering stickers with extended functionality in the future. Perhaps, such stickers will be the first content in Telegram distributed on paid basis.

Which features will be available and how the Premium Accounts program will work is unknown at this moment.

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2022-04-22 02:23:23 Telegram for Android got a 8.7.1 version update

— The list of users who read the message can now work in groups with exactly 100 users. Because of a bug, it was working only in groups up to 99 users before.
— Audio in audio/mpeg3 format can now be set as notification sound.
— Web Bots can now use local storage.
— Simplified "Mute for..." popup.
— Small fixes and improvements.

Updated: Fixed some wrongly interpreted changes. The limit of the participants who read the message wasn't actually raised in this release. Instead, a bug was fixed.

Download: Google Play, APK from official website or verified channel.

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2022-04-20 18:29:50 Telegram Desktop has been updated to version 3.7.1

What's new:
— Hardware accelerated video decoding is turned off by default: this should help to fix the bug when videos were playing back in green color. If you want, you can turn the feature back on under Advanced settings › Performance, if it doesn't cause problems.
— Fix several crashes.

Download: with official website or GitHub.

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2022-04-16 22:36:15 ‍Explaining the Web bots After our Web Bots Sneak Peek, readers got many questions left. In the new material, we explain exactly how Web bots work, how they differ from the gaming platform, what is controversial about them and what kind of bots can you expect… Open / Comment

2022-04-16 18:46:45 Notification Sounds, Bot Revolution and More
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Telegram for Android, iOS, macOS and Unigram have been updated to version 8.7, Telegram Desktop — to version 3.7.

Bot Revolution
• Developers are given the tools to create infinitely flexible interfaces with JavaScript.
• Next-generation Telegram bots can completely replace any website.
• These interfaces can be programmed to match a user’s theme – adjusting color schemes in real time, for example when switching between Day and Night modes or setting custom themes.
• You can try out the new generation of bots in the @DurgerKingBot.

Custom Notification Sounds
• You can now turn any sound into a notification tone.
• Telegram tones are cross-platform and completely free.
• You can set a notification sound for an individual chat or for all chats of the desired type (personal chats, channels, groups).
• Tap a short audio file or voice message in chat to instantly add it to your list of notification sounds, which you can assign to any chats.
• Tones currently support audio files and voice messages under 5 seconds up to 300 KB in size.
• Try some samples made by Telegram team (and their pets) in the Notification Sounds channel.
• You can access your sounds on all your devices via Settings > Notifications and Sounds.

Custom Mute Durations
• Now you can also pause notifications for a specific duration.
• In streamlined menu for modifying alerts choose Disable Sound to receive notifications silently, or one of the Mute options to turn off notifications completely.
• On Android, tap 'Notifications' on a chat's info page or ⋮ > Mute in the chat header. On iOS, tap 'Mute' on a chat's info page.

New Auto-Delete Menu in Profiles
• Now Auto-Delete takes fewer taps to enable.
• It supports flexible timer settings — like 2 days, 3 weeks, 4 months, and more.
• Enable Auto-Delete from ⋮ on a chat's info page.

Instantly Configure Bot Admins
• Users can now quickly add bots to their group or channel right from the bot's profile.
• You can also instantly configure rights and permissions for the bot.
• Bots can only be added to channels as admins, while bots can be added to groups as both members or admins.

Improved Picture-in-Picture (Android)
• Resize the window by stretching or squeezing it with two fingers.
• Tap X to quickly close it
• Enjoy the new rounded design.

And More
• Replies in forwarded messages.
• Improved message translation (iOS).
• Clearing message history of group for all participants.
• New animations in phone number changing interface.
• More animated emoji.

Android: Google Play, APK from official website or verified channel.
iOS: App Store.
Telegram Desktop: with official website or GitHub.
Telegram for macOS: from App Store or verified channel.
Unigram for Windows 10: Microsoft Store | Download | Installation help

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2022-04-11 21:53:45 Telegram grows in China despite lockdown

Telegram's popularity in China began to grow in February 2020, when Chinese authorities tightened censorship of Covid-19 conversations on popular domestic platforms such as WeChat and Weibo. In search of alternative sources of information, some people turned to Telegram and others to Signal. Telegram installations in China grew 64% that month to 110,000 according to the Sensor Tower at the South China Morning Post, while Signal installations grew 70% to 17,000.

Telegram downloads also spiked last summer as former US President Donald Trump tried to ban WeChat in the US, prompting users to look for other ways to stay with friends and family in China. WeChat is normally the go-to tool for communicating with people in China, it is apparently used by everyone, and as a Chinese app, it works reliably within the country, but it must comply with local laws such as those that allow authorities to access the data of users who make some turn up their noses.

Reports our Chinese channel @tginfocn.

Read all the news about Telegram in Chinese at @tginfocn.

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2022-04-09 15:55:27 An example of a Web bot for food delivery

In the code of the public beta version of Telegram for Android, the name of the test Web bot was mentioned. This is a fictional food delivery service "Durger King".

In the native @DurgerKingBot interface, you can place an order with a few clicks, accompany it with a comment, and pay for the purchase using the payment information saved in Telegram or via Google Pay.

This is just a demo. The possible applications for Web bots are countless, and some of them we already wrote about in an article on the topic.

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2022-04-04 09:30:22 ‍Explaining the Web bots

After our Web Bots Sneak Peek, readers got many questions left.

In the new material, we explain exactly how Web bots work, how they differ from the gaming platform, what is controversial about them and what kind of bots can you expect in the future.

Read: tginfo.me/explaining-web-bots-en Open / Comment

2022-04-03 22:22:28 Save replies for forwarded messages

In the upcoming Telegram update, when sending several messages at the same time, internal replays will be saved. This means that in the forwarded messages you will be able to see the entire message chain, just like in the original correspondence.

Note that replays in messages sent via the Beta version of the macOS client can already be seen on all current clients.

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2022-03-30 15:38:03 Sneak Peek at Telegram Web Bots
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Telegram started to test web bots, which are similar to inline bots, but still have some key differences:

— Pressing a bot button will open a third-party website inside Telegram.
— The website receives some key colors of your theme so it can adapt to look like a part of the app.
— The web bot can be pinned to the Attachments menu. When you select it from there, Telegram passes your current chat info to the website.
— Avatars are passed into the website as hotlinks, so they can be easily injected.
— Website can pass up to 4096 bytes of data to the bot, which is a record: inline buttons can carry up to 64 bytes of payload.
— Web bots can send messages of any attachment type available to inline bots on behalf of the user with a "via @bot" sign.
— Developers will have to develop the communication API between the bot and the website on their own.

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