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
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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

🎃 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
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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.

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".

Introducing Bot API 5.0

• Run your own Bot API server.
• Transfer Bot ownership to another account.
• New options for Webhooks.
• New method copyMessage to send a copy of any message.
• Support for Live Locations, including the latest changes.
• Support for Multiple Pinned Messages
• Support for File Albums
• Support for Anonymous Admins.
• Support for ⚽️ and 🎰 animated emoji.
• And much more, read the full changelog here:

https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#November-4-2020

Run your own Bot API server

You can run Bot API locally and send the requests to your own server instead of api.telegram.org. If you switch to a local Bot API server, your bot will be able to:

- Download files without a size limit.
- Upload files up to 2000 MB.
- Upload files using their local path and the file URI scheme.
- Use an HTTP URL for the webhook.
- Use any local IP address for the webhook.
- Use any port for the webhook.
- Set max_webhook_connections up to 100000.
- Receive the absolute local path as a value of the file_path field without the need to download the file after a getFile request.

The source code of the Telegram Bot API server is licensed under the Boost Software License.

#BotAPI

Transferring ownership of bots
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Along with the update Bot API to version 5.0, it became possible to transfer ownership of a bot from one account to another.

For transmission:
- Two-factor authentication must be enabled at least 7 days prior to transfer. The password should not change during this time.
- The session from which the transfer takes place must exist for at least 24 hours.
- The user to whom the transfer is carried out must write to the bot and unblock it (if the bot was blacklisted by the user).

The transfer is carried out through the bot @botfather.

#BotAPI

🔊 Animated emoji with sound

Apparently, the users of the messenger really liked the emoji with sound. Therefore, the Telegram team added sound to other emoji as well.

Full list: 🎃, ⚰️, 🧟, 🧟‍♂️, 🧟‍♀️, 🍑, ❤️

The sound is played by clicking on the animated emoji.

You can see all emojis in our chat.

Telegram Desktop updated to stable version 2.4.7

What's new:
- Fixed display of playback of audio files in the album.
- Correction of application crashes in some situations.
- Minor fixes and improvements.

Download: from official website or GitHub.

#update #desktop #stable