Telegram Web A Digest

Many new features and useful optimizations have been added in recent months. Here is a brief overview of what's been happening in Web A since August.

September – November

✏️ General
• Reply Revolution – the app learned to quote specific parts of any message, making your responses 100% precise.
• Also, Quote Formatting have arrived.

📣 Channels
• Channels added boosts and giveaways.
• Users also got an option to reassign their boosts between channels.

🌄 Stories
• Numerous improvements have been made to the animations flow, ensuring the stories bar expands more smoothly. Additionally, a package of optimizations has been added to enhance the performance of stories on mobile devices.
• Stories have been introduced for channels, and the story viewer has been updated with new gestures to expand and reply.

⚙️ Settings
• The app has added an option, 'Who can find me by phone number,' along with a setting under 'Privacy and Security' to manage the visibility of your bio.

✨ Extra
• Some further improvements have been made to the Mini Apps area.
• New security notifications have been added to the chat list to alert you when your account is logged into from a new device.
• New design for code blocks formatting.

December – February

✏️ General
• Saved Messages 2.0 – including tags, My Notes, Replies and forwards from hidden authors.
• One-Time Voice Messages including both listening and recording. Added support for viewing One-Time Video Messages.
• Read-Time in Private Chats
• You can now replace media when editing messages.
• The app learned to preserve the selected mode for topics in groups.
• Whenever you create a small group, Web A suggests a name for it based on users' name you have added.

📣 Channels
• Added custom channel reactions.
• Implemented channel stories stats.
• Channel emoji statuses.
• Similar Channels.

👥 Groups
• 9 new features for groups.

🤖 Bots
• Edit your bots info right from their profile.

🌄 Stories
• Added support for forwarded stories and channel posts in stories.

✨ Extra
• Giveaway Improvements: displaying winners list and additional prizes.

March

📣 Channels
• Admins will soon be able to launch giveaways in their channels.

✨ Extra
• Added support for Emoji v15.1.
• Some design enhancements for shared contacts, links preview and more.

Telegram

Replies 2.0, Adjustable Link Previews, Name Colors and More

Today's update lets you quote specific parts of messages when replying, send your replies to other chats, add quote formatting to any text, configure link previews, choose a color for your account, and much more.

💰 Last week, we issued $330M worth of bonds to ensure Telegram can keep expanding at an accelerated speed.

This bond offering was oversubscribed, and we were delighted to have global funds of the highest caliber with impeccable reputations as participants. The terms of the bonds (when adjusted for the Federal Reserve rate) were the most favorable for Telegram in the history of our company.

I am proud that every time we issue bonds we get better at this process. The increased demand for our bonds shows that global financial institutions value Telegram’s growth in audience and monetization. This will further solidify our position as an independent platform that is able to challenge the “Goliaths” of our industry.

Telegram JavaScript Contest: Submissions

Build the application, then prepare:
- A ZIP-archive with the following structure:

\-> public \- folder with the build. \-> src \- folder with the app's source code. \-> readme.txt – a text file that briefly describes the approach used for each task, listing all external dependencies and libraries you've added. If the bonus task has been completed, a detailed explanation must be included for it.

- A link to the commit on a public GitHub repository, forked from the Telegram Web K repository. Your repository may stay private until the deadline.

Note: To build the application you have to make some changes in vite module: replace the file node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep\-R0I0XnyH.js with the one attached below.

Note 2: @ContestBot will begin accepting submissions within the next 12 hours. To submit, you'll need to start the bot, select “JS Contest R1”, answer the bot’s questions, and then send your archive along with the commit link.

Good luck!

📹 We've made some great improvements to video message recording on iOS. Now, you can enjoy clearer video quality, switch between front and back cameras more quickly, experience less camera shake, and have the ability to pause and resume recording. Plus, we've introduced one-time video messages.

However, a minor bug was identified during the feature's initial launch two days ago. If you're encountering any issues with video message recording, please make sure your Telegram app is updated.

💫 For our Telegram Premium subscribers, there's a mighty update: you'll now be able to see the 'last seen' of other users who share this information, even if you choose to keep your 'last seen' hidden. The same logic now applies for the ‘read’ times in private chats.

There are more new features in this update — they will remain secret until our official blog post is out later this month 🤫

Telegram

Telegram News

Pause and Resume Recording. While recording any voice or video message you can pause and then resume recording later – without having to start over. January Features 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5

🧠 A smart suggestion, which we instantly implemented. We sent 2000 euro to the creator of this submission to appreciate his great work 😌

(Pavel)

🏆 Telegram Contest for JavaScript Developers, Round 1 Prize fund: $30,000 Deadline: 23:59 on January 21st (Dubai time) Who can participate: Everyone Results: February 4th, 2024 Telegram is hosting a contest for JavaScript developers to implement Live Streaming…