Telegram News

One more thing: Every week I will pick one game that is Game of the Week (last line in the last post). You can play this game (and others) against subscribers of this channel at @playingfield - see the pinned message.

NEWS OF THE WEEK Updates: - Telegram for iOS source code updated to v5.7 - Telegram for Android source code updated to v5.7.1 - Public groups got enabled for users from Vietnam and the Philippines. (Source) Readworthy: - Pavel Durov (the founder of Telegram) decides to consume no food at all this month. Read his post on his channel or this article by The Independet. - Pavel Durov plans to launch an independent news aggregator not limited by censorship. Instant View already allows you to read the news of 6000 publications worldwide from any device, and the statistics of their views in each country allows Telegram to algorithmically calculate the most relevant content at the moment. Read more... Source: Pavel Durov's Telegram channel in russian language - Telegram might develop a way to split a group chat into subgroups similar to this. There are still many open questions and design decisions to make, figuring out all the details might be worthy of a prize by @durov. Game of the Week: Rocket Mania (play against other subscribers at @playingfield - see the pinned message)

Durov's sovereign web - How the test version of Telegram blockchain platform works Last week, Telegram sent investors a letter in which they told about the testing progress of the TON blockchain platform. A limited number of companies received access to it in April. Here are conclusions about the future of Telegram's blockchain platform drawn from TON's technical documentation. Read the article here...

This is a short summary to bring you up to date about last years developments. A detailed analysis will follow soon. Telegram Open Network ICO Telegram is planning to launch a blockchain platform and native cryptocurrency. They put together an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) to fund development of a new blockchain platform, to be called the "Telegram Open Network" (TON). The offering was organised as a SAFT (Simple Agreement for Future Tokens), selling futures on tokens to be called GRAM. In February 2018, during the first round of the ICO 2.25 billion tokens (45% of the total number of future Grams) were sold at a price about $0.5 per token. The minimum amount of investment to participate in this round was $20 million. Then the second round of token offering began. During both placements 2.89 billion tokens were sold (58% of the total number of future Grams). As of April 2018, Telegram had reported raising $1.7 billion through the ongoing ICO. Only the pre-ICO rounds were conducted; the public ICO was cancelled because Telegram raised enough money in the pre-ICO rounds. The network has yet to be released.

One thing I will post after every major update is a poll - and a review about what you thought about the last update. Since this is the first poll, there is no review now, but there will with the following polls.

Hello Friends! I'm sorry for being so silent for more than a year - I will try to post more on this channel from now on, at least summaries of the latest developments from time to time - I set a marker in my calender, so this should be possible. While I haven't been active on my channels and in my groups I followed the development of Telegram closely and was and still am excited for every new update, because (different to other apps) every Telegram update brings new great features and not just bug fixes 😉 I don't think it makes sense to write about every update in this channel - you get these informations directly from Telegram any way, but a weekly or sometimes monthly summary of the latest developments should be interesting to you. I start the reactivation of this channel with a summary of all the new features we got in 2018: - TDLib – Build Your Own Telegram - Telegram X: Progress through Competition (Telegram X for iPhone has replaced the regular version by now, Telegram X for Android is still in development) - Telegram Login for Websites - Video Streaming - Auto-Night Mode - Telegram Login Widget - Replace Media and Add Captions - Double-Time Playback for Voice and Video Messages - Mark as Read or Unread - Telegram Passport (probably nobody uses this today, but will be needed for TON later this year) - Chat Export Tool & Better Notifications - Telegram 5.0 for iOS - Custom Languages - Instant View 2.0 - New Design for Android - Polls Telegram also reached 200 million monthly active users in 2018! The groupchat is also connected to this channel now, you should be able to reach it with the "Discuss"-Button in the lower right corner.

Hello Friends! I'm sorry for being so silent for almost half a year. I'll be posting more regularly again, focusing on the most important news related to Telegram in a few messages per month. We start this year belated with a look back at last year's new features. You want to see what has been new in the last years? Click the message this one replies to. New features in 2017 included: - Unsend Messages - t.me Links - Telegram Desktop version 1.0 - Telegram for Android Wear 2.0 - Custom Themes - Voice Calls - Video Quality Control - Instant View Platform - Instant View Themes - Payments for Bots - Video Messages and Telescope - Supergroups 10,000: Admin Tools & More - Android Pay support for Bot Payments - CDN caching (more speed for channels) - Disappearing Media, User Bio - Better Replies, Favorite Stickers - Live Locations, New Media Player, More Languages - Albums, Saved Messages and Better Search - Themes for iOS, Multiple Accounts Telegram should also reach 200 million monthly active users in the next months. At the moment there are more than 500,000 users joining daily! All the best for 2018! ❤️

Telegram is back in the AppStore! 😊

Telegram will be back in the iOS App Store! 😊