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Telegram-based solutions proposed for the new system of public administration

Dmitry Peskov, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Digital and Technological Development, said that group chats, in particular Telegram chats, perfectly replace bureaucratic structures and meetings. The official expressed hope that such a course of business will take root and remain even after the pandemic.
Telegram may be blocked in Thailand

Documents leaked into the internet demanding the Ministry of Digital Economy and providers to block Telegram in Thailand.

There have been massive protests in Thailand for 5 days. Yesterday a Telegram chat was created, which we already wrote about in @tginfolive.

Almost 200,000 participants joined the chat per day. Let us remind you that for chats this is the maximum possible number of participants and there are only 100 people left until this limit is reached.

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Slots on Telegram

The Beta version of Telegram for macOS has the opportunity to try your luck at the jackpot. To do this, you need to send emoji to the chat or channel 🎰.

For users of other platforms, you can try the function on our website: tginfo.me/slotmachine (you need to press the slot machine).

#macOS
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Sending files of different types by albums

The Beta version of Telegram for macOS now has the ability to send files by albums.

The function works for all types of files, including audio tracks. Thus, you can create both playlists and posts with different types of files within the message.

#macOS
Pinning messages in personal chats

In the upcoming Telegram update for all platforms, users will be able to pin messages to private messages. This will help keep important information in the chat.

At the moment, the function works in stable versions of clients on the messenger test server.
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Improved pinned messages

The Beta version of Telegram for macOS has received an improvement in the pinned messages feature.

Innovations:
• Ability to pin more than one message in any chat (even in private chats).
• Ability to switch between pinned messages and open a separate page with all pinned messages.

Currently works only on a test server for developers.

#macOS
400 million users, 6.6% of the world's population and 29 million Telegram downloads in September

The global statistics report Digital 2020 for October this year, produced by Hootsuite and We Are Social, shows that Telegram technologies continue to play an increasingly important role in various aspects of people's daily lives.

According to the research, the messenger is used monthly by 6.6% of the world's population over 13 years old. The messenger is one of the world's top 10 apps in terms of downloads and active users.

#statistics
Access limitations for the official Telegram website in Belarus

Certain parts of the official site were blocked by a Belarusian carrier, causing errors. We explain why this happened, how to return convenient access to Telegram links, and how to protect yourself in the future.

Read more: tginfo.me/block-belarus-en
Telegram Desktop updated to stable version 2.4.4

What's new:
- Shortcut to open contacts Ctrl + Shift + N.
- Close the media viewer if the photo or video is deleted.
- Warning when opening SVG file.
- Updated OpenAL library for Windows.
- The "Mark as read" button will be hidden from the notification if the application is locked with a local password.
- Fixed crash of the application at the end of the conversation.
- Fixed missing ownership transfer button for non-anonymous group admins.
- Minor fixes and improvements.

Download: from official website or GitHub.

#update #desktop #stable
Number of replies per message
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Along with the Telegram update to version 7.1, the messenger has a thread function (viewing responses to a message on a separate page). This function only works in groups that are linked to a channel.

On October 24, the threading feature started working for all groups on the test server.

Today, messages on the main server also have tags with the number of replies to them. At the moment, this figure is visible from the following clients: Telegram Desktop, Telegram for iOS, Beta version of the native client for macOS and Unigram).

This is probably due to the preparation of the messenger servers for the update.
Half of Russians surveyed use Telegram

Deloitte conducted a survey in 200 localities in 8 regions of Russia, 1600 people took part in the survey.

On average, a Russian has 4 instant messengers installed on his phone. The most common is WhatsApp, it is installed by 88% of respondents,

At the same time, the penetration of Telegram increased by 10 percentage points over the year, and Skype - decreased by 1 point.

#statistics
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🎃 Emoji with sound

In honor of Halloween, Telegram added sound effects for themed animated emoji: 🎃 and ⚰️ (Does not work in silent mode).

Send emoji without text to scare a friend or acquaintance.

#Beta #iOS
Halloween on Telegram

The Beta version of Telegram for Android now has Halloween-themed icons.

We are waiting for icons and an update of the stable version of the messenger tomorrow.

#Android
Pinned Messages 2.0, improved Live Locations, playlists and more

Telegram for Android has been updated to version 7.2

Improving pinned messages
• Ability to pin multiple messages, even in private chats.
• Ability to navigate between pinned messages and view them on a separate page.

Improved "Live Locations"
• Ability to enable notification when the interlocutor broadcasting geolocation will be at a certain distance from you.
• Information about the direction users are looking in on the current location map.

Playlists, animation enhancements and more
• Ability to send multiple audio tracks as a playlist.
• Statistics of individual posts in Telegram channels (works from 500 subscribers).
• Animated Halloween emojis: 🌛, 🌜, 🧟‍♀️, 🧟, 🧟‍♂️, 🧛‍♀️, 🧛, 🧛‍♂️, 🕷, 🦇, and 🕸.
• Animated slots: slot_machine: emoji in any chat.
• Animated emoji with sound (sound plays when pressed).
• Search for messages on behalf of the chat, if the admins in it are anonymous.
• Clickable links in user profiles.

Other
• New animations in the interface, and animations for the player.
• Fast media editing.

Read more in the article: telegram.org/blog/pinned-messages-locations-playlists

Android: Google Play APK site or official channel.
macOS: the site, or later App Store.
iOS: App Store.

#update #Android
Small channel statistics

Telegram channel statistics are now available from 50 subscribers.

#limits
Telegram Desktop updated to stable version 2.4.5
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What's new:
- Support for improved pins.
- Album support for files.
- Animated Halloween emojis: 🌛, 🌜, 🧟‍♀️, 🧟, 🧟‍♂️, 🧛‍♀️, 🧛, 🧛‍♂️, 🕷, 🦇, and 🕸.
- Animated slots: slot_machine :.
- New shortcut for opening contacts Ctrl + J.
- Support for threads in all chats (without linking to a channel).
- Ability to view stickers attached to files.
- Setting up compression and grouping before sending media (see screen).
- New image encoder for JPEG images MozJPEG.
- Now images (more than 10) will be sent as several albums, and not individually as before.
- Minor fixes and improvements.

Read more in the article: telegram.org/blog/pinned-messages-locations-playlists

Download: from official website or GitHub.

#update #desktop #stable
Unclickable links in profiles. Why did they disappear?
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Since the appearance of groups and channels in Telegram, they had a description, later links in it became active ... In September 2017, descriptions appeared in user profiles. For three years (until October 2020), links in the profile description were clickable only in unofficial clients and Telegram X for Android.

With the Telegram update to version 7.2 (version 2.4.5 for Telegram Desktop), the situation has changed.

In the description of the user and groups, the following are highlighted:
- Usernames (@tginfoen).
- Links t.me and telegram.org (t.me/tginfoen).
- Links telegra.ph and telesco.pe

In the description of channels and bots, the following are highlighted:
- Usernames (@tginfoen).
- Links t.me and telegram.org (t.me/tginfoen).
- Links telegra.ph and telesco.pe
- Other links (tginfo.me).

It seems rather strange that even links to telegra.ph (an article writing service from Telegram) are not highlighted. In many cases, the group description included a link to the rules or useful links using this service (due to the support of Instant View).

Take part in our pool: do you use links in the description and are they important to you, and in the comments to the survey, you can indicate cases of using links in the description of a group or profile.

UPD: The updated version has added support for links to telegra.ph.
Do we need links in the group and profile description?
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Telegram Desktop updated to stable version 2.4.6

What's new:
- Highlighting links like t.me, telegram.org, telegram.dog, telegram.me, telegra.ph, telesco.pe in the description of groups and user profiles.
- Fixed sending images as a file by dragging and dropping into the chat window.
- Fixed highlighting of signatures in media albums.
- Fixed display of drafts in private chats in the chat list.
- Fixed opening of poll results.
- Minor fixes and improvements.

Download: from official website or GitHub.

#update #desktop #stable
The court ordered Telegram to pay $ 620 thousand in legal costs due to the Gram trademark

Since Telegram withdrew the copyright lawsuit at the end of August 2020, it has to pay the legal costs of the firm against which it was sued.

Initially, the startup demanded a refund of $ 1,615,140 in compensation.

Recall that in May 2018, Telegram filed a lawsuit in the US District Court against Lantah LLC, which was going to issue a cryptocurrency called "Gram".