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yet another update delayed by Apple
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May the Bot API v.3.2 be with you! Your bot can now handle sticker sets:
- Create sets of stickers or masks
- Rearrange and delete stickers from sets
See full changelog:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#july-21-2017
Telegram CEO talking about the Indonesian issue
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And be aware that there is a known bug at the bio settings, don't worry if you don't see your bio once added (It's saved at Telegram servers).
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Now when you open links like t.me/geekschannel with the browser, you see the channel description
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This blocking for now is only affecting the official Telegram websites like telegram.org , web.telegram.org etc...
🌐 We posted this information at the blog, in case you want to send it to your non-Telegram friends:
http://telegramgeeks.com/2017/07/telegram-blocked-indonesia/
🌐 Also on twitter:
https://twitter.com/telegramGeeks/status/885831666467565568
Telegram Geeks support the net neutrality campaign
The FCC wants to destroy net neutrality and give big cable companies control over what we see and do online. If they get their way, they’ll allow widespread throttling, blocking, censorship, and extra fees.
battleforthenet.com/july12/
how the pollsciemo lammer team add people to your group in order to spam it
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Some Telegram groups are being attacked by a bunch of shitty lammers known as Pollsciemo.
How do they attack the groups? They add 10-20 userbots to your group and send like 100 messages every second.
What do they want? They want you to pay 10€ or 15€ in order to stop the attack.
How can you avoid the attack? In your group, make sure that only admins can add members (and not normal users).
And please, NEVER PAY to this Pollsciemo rat kids
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Here you have a little list of this spammers, if you find them in your group, just ban in advance.
@HackerPro75 239993053
@patriaotuttiaccoppati 179208183
@MikeFounderDHT 319719495
@maxycreeper 291836651
@VolpeAked 360325726
@AlFox02 313011248
@tispacco23 286656550
@VladimirVladimirovicPutin 390923537
@Nen3one 304949284
@FrankBruno777 111511201
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Telegram for iOS updated to 4.1.1
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Telegram 4.1 is here!
Supergroups 10,000: Admin Tools & More
https://telegram.org/blog/admin-revolution
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There’s a weird rumor being spread in Iran about Telegram moving servers there. The idea of a privacy-oriented messaging app like Telegram moving its servers to a country with a history of Internet censorship is absurd and is hardly worth commenting on. However, it’s interesting to try to understand why such rumors appear in the first place. I can think of two reasons for that.
1. First, countries such as Iran or Russia usually try to pass laws ordering Internet companies to store private data on their territory. Sometimes officials in those countries make loud claims that turn out to be false (“Apple agreed to host private data of their users in our country”). It’s pretty obvious that Telegram can’t comply with any such demands due to our strict Privacy Policy. We won’t be able to put the privacy of our users at risk, even if rejecting such demands means getting blocked in some countries. We’d rather lose a big market (like we did in China) than compromise a single byte of private data of our users.
2. Second, some politicians and journalists discussing “servers” of a company in a country are confused about the terms and what they actually mean by “servers”. Along with a company’s servers that store private data in safe places, there also are internet providers that deliver encrypted traffic to users, and third party caching nodes (CDNs) that make sure popular public content doesn’t go twice around the globe every time to reach its users. If Telegram servers store data, these third parties merely provide connectivity between Telegram servers and its users.
It seems that politicians / journalists sometimes refer to an internet traffic provider or a CDN provider that delivers or caches encrypted data of Telegram as “Telegram” or “Telegram servers“, thus confusing the public. There’s a world of difference between them: Telegram servers store private data and will never “travel” to countries with internet censorship, while internet providers and CDNs operate all over the world and have no access to private data of Telegram (and other secure apps).
All popular apps have to work with ISPs and CDNs in order to make sure users can get their traffic in a fast and reliable way, but unlike some of them, we at Telegram are always 100% transparent about how we encrypt and store data. That's why I will soon share more details about how exactly Telegram plans to work with third parties such as CDN providers to guarantee speed and security for our users all around the globe.
However, while we keep researching ways to improve connectivity and speed for our users globally, there’s one thing we will never do: we will never change the location of our servers or change our Privacy Policy due to restricting laws or threats from local officials. The only party Telegram can be held responsible to is our users, and only our users can dictate us their wishes and demands.
Some thoughts on Indonesia
A lot of Telegram's early adopters come from Indonesia, and now we have several million users in that beautiful country. I am personally a big fan of Indonesia – I’ve been there a few times and have many friends there.
So it made me upset to hear that the Indonesian Ministry of Communication and IT suggested they would have to block Telegram in Indonesia. It turns out that the officials of the Ministry recently emailed us a list of public channels with terrorism-related content on Telegram, and our team was unable to quickly process them.
Unfortunately, I was unaware of these requests, which caused this miscommunication with the Ministry. To fix the current situation, we're implementing the following 3-step solution:
1) We have blocked all the terrorist-related public channels that have been previously reported to us by the Ministry of Communication and IT of Indonesia.
2) I emailed back to the Ministry to establish a direct channel of communication, which should allow us to work more efficiently on identifying and blocking terrorist propaganda in the future.
3) We are forming a dedicated team of moderators with knowledge of Indonesian language and culture to be able to process reports of terrorist-related content more quickly and accurately.
Telegram is heavily encrypted and privacy-oriented, but we’re no friends of terrorists – in fact, every month we block thousands of ISIS-related public channels and publish the result of this work in @isiswatch. We’re constantly striving to be more efficient at preventing terrorist propaganda, and are always open to ideas on how to get better at this.
I emailed the Ministry my suggestions above to hear their feedback. I am confident we can efficiently eradicate terrorist propaganda without disrupting the legitimate use of Telegram by millions of Indonesians. I will keep you updated in this channel on how Telegram will develop in Indonesia – and globally.
BTW if you want to set up your bio, you can try this customized webogram:
fabianpastor.github.io/webogram
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Also working with groups and users (if you edited your bio when some little hack allowed users to edit their own bio)
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Durov talking about Indonesian blocking
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🇮🇩 TELEGRAM BLOCKED IN INDONESIA
The Indonesian government confirmed the blocking of Telegram. The reason for blocking is due to terrorism activities in Telegram.
A screenshot of Swamedium shows a government mail asking internet service providers to close a number of sites containing 11 Telegram domains.
Director General of Applications and Informatics Semuel Abrijani Pangerapan confirmed the blocking of this telegram to CNNIndonesia.com in a short message.
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🌐 Sources (in indonesian 🇮🇩):
— CNNIndonesia
— kompas
#censorship #terrorism #indonesia
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remember you got this little hack to hide muted chats
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Cool idea, a notification center for Telegram
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You have created a malicious bot that was banned on Telegram. Please note that creating abusive bots (for example, bots for spamming and interfering with communication in groups) may lead to your account being terminated.
You have been banned from creating new bots for a month.
And here's an offer you can't refuse: Once the month is over, you can either play nice and build useful bots (or no bots at all) — or be blocked on Telegram forever.
Some chats attacked by the pollsciemo lammer team.
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Telegram Donate Bot ( @TelegramDonate ) no longer accept donations
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1⃣ Admin Rights
Choose who among your trusted admins will be able to add new users, manage messages, block members, edit group info, or even add new admins.
2⃣ Partial Bans
You can put nasty users into read-only mode or maybe stop them from sending stickers or media for a certain period of time. Now you can do all of this with absolute precision
3⃣ Partial bans
With Bot API version 3.1, you can use admin bots to automatically impose temporary or permanent bans based on member actions.
4⃣ Recent admin actions
Recent actions in supergroups also show messages that were deleted in the last 48 hours and the original versions of edited messages for the same period, so nasty behavior like self-deleted spam will no longer help anyone escape the admins’ wrath.
5⃣ Free speech
This update also features anti-censorship tools such as the ability to set up a Proxy server in the “Data and Storage” section of the Settings.
🌐 More info at official post
#update #telegram #groups #channels
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Bot API v.3.1 is here! Build your own robotic police force for supergoups with these new methods for admin bots:
- Ban and restrict group members
- Promote new admins
- Manage group info and invite links
See full changelog:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#june-30-2017