The official website of the competitions were the work of participants of the second round of the competition for developers writing JavaScript.

The purpose of the second round was the continuation of the work on the simplified web version of Telegram without using third-party environments the user interface.

While the judges are preparing to publish the results of the competition, you can see the submitted works on website of the competition.

To view, you need to select the participant and click the button "OPEN WEBSITE".

Note: the competition involves third-party developers, use them clients at your own risk. We do not recommend to log into your main account.

#contest

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Telegram Desktop updated to stable version 1.9.14

What's new:
— New name for the app in the App Store – Telegram Lite.
— Size of tray icon on Linux returned by 22 (except KDE).
— Fixed disabling post count on KDE.
— Minor bug fixes and improvements.

Download: with official website or GitHub.

#update #desktop #stable

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Blockchair launched a columnist for the Telegram Open Network (TON)
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While Pavel Durov and the team Telegram Open Network defends the project before the American regulator, ecosystem project TON developing. So, the team Blockchair recently launched its Explorer to TON.

Blockchair.com – platform to search for information about transactions and addresses in different blockchains. Blockchair allows you to search for transactions in the blockchain TON in a user friendly format. The service also offers API for TON for developers of applications and services.

The company previously released the reviewers for Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV after their forks, then the prospect of these cryptocurrencies, as in the case of TON, was unclear.

Added browser TON commented on Edige Davletgaliev, head of research Blockchair: "the Problem of scalable cryptocurrency – the unsolved technical problem, which imposes restrictions on their distribution. The team has a TON of experience in the creation of two extremely high-loaded products: VK and Telegram, therefore, we see a TON of prospects. Legal issues are artificially created, nothing can stop technology".

Details about the new product at: blockchair.com/ton

#TON #crypt

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⚡️ ️ The court extended restrictions on the sale of gram

In new York, the court session in the case of the SEC against Telegram has ended. The judge decided to extend the existing restriction on the sale of tokens. Further hearings in the TON/SEC case were postponed until April 30.

Judging by the comments of those present, it was possible to prove decentralization, but the court has doubts that the stated capabilities of TON correspond to the actual state of Affairs. According to those who were at the trial, judge Castell understands blockchain and decentralization and wants to understand the topic more deeply.

#TON #crypt

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Telegram for iOS has been updated to version 5.15.1

What's new:
— the search Button is rendered to the screen information about chat.
— Long description chat now minimized.
— Ability to switch between tabs total media swipe.
— Fixed bug not giving down below a certain position in the overall media.

Download the update from App Store.

#update #swift #iOS

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A Beta version of Telegram for macOS has better timing for scheduled posts. Previously you had to scroll through time, as in mobile clients.

Also, there are new animations when you click on “Search”.

#Beta #macOS

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On GitHub was published the source code of Telegram for iOS version of 5.15.1

#iOS #source code

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Hourly increase of subscribers and the dynamics of views on publications TGStat.com

Hourly increase of subscribers
In the new detailed statistics displayed mark on Riposto and the reference channel, as well as the notes on own publications, which make it easy to assess after the event has occurred or increase the outflow of subscribers.

Hourly dynamics viewed publications
Detailed statistics there and for publishing channel. In the first hour after publication on the chart you can observe the dynamics of growth hits 10 minutes, and starting from the second hour chart will show the dynamics of growth hits hourly. In addition, the interface statistics publications appeared, the exact date of removal of quick switching between the publication of the channel and fixed the indicators with the number of views of published for 1, 3, 8, 24 and 48 hours, which is extremely useful when evaluating the effectiveness of planning and placement of advertising publications for a fixed period.

Hourly indicators are available from January 1, 2020.

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Telegram Desktop has been updated to version 1.9.15 Beta

What's new:
- Mark new messages as read while scrolling down through them.
- Bug fixes and other minor improvements.

Download: with official website or GitHub.

#update #desktop #beta

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Filters to stable version of Telegram for macOS

To enable the filters to stable version, go to developer menu (5 times click on the icon “Settings”) and enable “Enable filters”.

The required version of client 5.9.3 (191684). You can download it from the site Telegram or AppStore.

#macOS

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an Important feature of the binding of chat to channel

After binding the public chat to a private channel, he loses some features of the private channel (which is virtually public).

User:
— switch to channel forward.
— Switch to channel on the link of the form t.me/c/.

Important feature:
After unbinding the public chat of the channel or switch it to private, users who have switched to the channel for some time, then you can go to him.

This is due to the characteristics of the messenger. For the client to remember a hash of the private channel, so the user can navigate.

#FAQ

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Telegram Desktop updated to version 1.9.17 Beta, and later to version 1.9.18 Beta, then to version 1.9.19 Beta

What's New in 1.9.19:
- Fixed crashes in Windows 7.
- Minor bug fixes and improvements.

What's New in 1.9.18:
- Fixed problems with authorization.
- Minor bug fixes and improvements.

What's New in 1.9.17:
- Added spell checking support for Windows 7 (Linux, Windows 7+, macOS 10.12+).
- Minor bug fixes and improvements.

Download: with official website or GitHub.

#update #desktop #beta

Purging deleted accounts 15-20 Feb 2020

last week there was the massive cleanup of stranded accounts in the Telegram. For 6 days were removed the total number of subscribers of the channel:
- 21.2 million (Russia)
- 14.5 million (Iran)
- 13 million (Uzbekistan)
1 million (Ukraine)

These figures give we TGStat. Besides following the cleansing, 2169 channels really TGStat got red marks, indicating the cheat.

#cheaters

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graph.org not working third day

The mirror blocked website Telegra.ph, designed for writing and reading articles inaccessible for a few days.

The messenger team is already aware of the problem and solves it.

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Sales via Telegram in 2019 exceeded 1 billion

Telegram is becoming a significant platform for online sales: in 2019 through blocked in Russia, the messenger, the estimated advertising network Admitad, was already sold goods to the amount of 1.1 billion rubles.

Sale Internet mazagines showed an increase by almost 200% and already overtook YouTube.

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Mixed navigation through media in the Telegram

In the latest update to Telegram for mobile platforms appeared not only a new kind of profile, but also changed the navigation media. It is not all relished.
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Go the poll below, and tell us do you like the look of the new profile, and navigate media.

Read more: tginfo.me/tg-5-15-workaround-en

#article

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Declared the results of the first stage of competition on development of clustering algorithms and ranking content

According to the organizers, the quality of articles sorting in tasks 1 through 4 (sorting by language, news, by category, by context) has had the greatest influence, especially in comparison with additional (sort news groups, United by the context, relative importance). Also the final result is strongly influenced by the speed of the algorithms.

In addition to the main prize, the authors who have submitted solutions worked much better than the rest, paid an additional reward. For the authors, the solutions of which require additional movements in order to work, the award was reduced.

The list of winners and the payout can be viewed in this post on the official channel of the contest. Detailed statistics of each solution you can see contest.

The second stage of competition will begin in the near future.

#contest

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Definition Bank card Telegram and quick transfers

In the latest update of Telegram for iOS and Android has a new feature that shows the card number, the country and the Bank in which it is released. Now the system was first used for rapid transfers in the Ukrainian PrivatBank, what was revealed to us Egor Avetisov, creative directoe PrivatBank: tginfo.me/bank-card-en

Our Ukrainian PrivatBank which readers can try out the new feature and put a couple of our Ukrainian hryvnia editorial staff @tginfo. To do this, click on the card number: 4441114450640444

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Telegram X Android updated to stable version 0.22.5.1302
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What's new:
— Support for deferred message.
— Support animated Emoji.
— Ability to select multiple conversations in the conversation list for further action.
— Support underlined and strikethrough formatting, as well as the changing mix of several styles at once.
— Support custom roles for administrators supergroups.
— The definition Bank card with the ability to copy or to send money.
— Fix other bugs and crashes.

Like about this update: tginfo.me/telegram-x-02-29-en

At the moment, the update is not available to everyone, to get it you need to subscribe for a beta test on Google Play, or wait a while (the stable version will be available to everyone for two days).

Download Google Play.

#android #telegramX #update

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