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Ответы 2.0, гибкие настройки ссылок, персональные цвета и многое другое
(Replies 2.0, Adjustable Link Previews, Name Colors and More)
В этом обновлении:
— Ответы 2.0
— Цитаты в тексте сообщений
— Настройки для ссылок
— Настройки ответов, пересылки сообщений и предпросмотра ссылок
— Персональные цвета (Premium)
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#Telegram #blog #Premium #update #обновление
Some people are wishing me a happy "birthday" today.
But today, 10.10.2023, is not really the day when I was born.
I was actually born many years ago – today is merely an anniversary of my birthday.
Personally, I prefer to celebrate it as the 12th anniversary of my 27th birthday anniversary.
Don’t let yourselves get misled! 🍸
🔍This month we changed how searching public channels and groups works on Telegram.
Previously, public channels with more subscribers would appear higher in the search results. That system worked fine for a while, but was increasingly getting abused by spammers. That's why we now only count genuine subscribers of channels for ranking.
For example, channels with more Premium subscribers will generally rank higher. However, if a specific Premium subscriber joins too many channels, they won't give those channels as big of a search ranking boost. Of course, the new search also prioritizes results from your country.
The feedback on this change is overwhelmingly positive. Channels with an inflated subscribers count have become less visible, while useful groups and mini-apps are now attracting more users. 🚀
Истории и десятилетие Telegram
(Stories and 10 Years of Telegram)
В этом обновлении:
— Истории в Telegram
— Режим съёмки двумя камерами
— Стикеры, геометки и подписи
— Настройки конфиденциальности
— Истории в профиле
— Изменение историй
— Подробная статистика
— …и многое другое
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#Telegram #blog #Stories #10Years
Every day, over 2.5 million new users sign up for Telegram, and earlier this year we’ve surpassed 800 million monthly active users. We are happy and grateful, even though this massive growth also means higher expenses on storage and traffic to serve our users.
Luckily, Telegram is super efficient when it comes to expenses and we had a great start with monetization last year. While not yet profitable (which would be impossible to reach on just the second year of monetization), Telegram is closer to profitability in absolute numbers than its competitors such as Twitter and Snap.
To fund Telegram’s continued growth until we reach the break-even point, this week we issued around $270 million worth of Telegram bonds as a tap of our existing bonds. Once again we've been lucky to have the participation of well-known funds with stellar reputations.
I personally bought about a quarter of the new Telegram bonds, investing tens of millions into Telegram’s growth. This comes in addition to the hundreds of millions I spent over the last 10 years to keep Telegram operational.
Some people suggested I should have instead bought a house or a jet. But I prefer to stay focused on my work, without “owning” anything (well, apart from Telegram, some Bitcoin and some Toncoin).
Hundreds of millions of people signed up for Telegram because they wanted an independent messaging platform that would put its users first. It is my responsibility – and my life’s work – to keep delivering this platform.
For years, our users have been asking us to implement Stories in Telegram. More than half of all feature requests that we receive are related to Stories.
Initially, we were against this since Stories are already everywhere. However, Telegram wouldn't be Telegram if we didn't listen to our users and didn't innovate on existing formats.
So we will be launching Stories soon – in the Telegram way:
- Privacy. You will be able to define who can see each of your stories with granular precision: Everyone, only your contacts (with exceptions), a few selected contacts, or a list of Close Friends.
- Compact UI. Stories will be placed in an expandable section at the top of your chat list, which makes them easily accessible without taking away valuable space.
- Flexibility. It will be easy to hide Stories posted by any contact, moving them to the 'Hidden' list in your Contacts section instead of the main screen.
- Captions. In addition to making use of dozens of powerful photo and video-editing tools, you will be able to provide captions for your stories to add more context or links and tag other people.
- Dual Camera Support. Building on the success of Telegram's Video Messages, we're adding the option to post photos and videos taken by the front and the rear cameras simultaneously.
- Optional Ephemerality. You'll be able to choose when a story expires – in 6, 12, 24, or 48 hours – or permanently display stories on your profile page, with individual privacy settings for each.
- More suprises! 🤩
The ability to save your stories to the profile page will make Telegram profiles more informative and colorful. You will not only be able to explore more content from your closest contacts, but finally discover more information about users you connect with in groups or channel comments.
Speaking of channels, they will benefit from more exposure and subscribers: once we launch the ability to repost messages from channels to stories, going viral on Telegram will become a lot easier.
Overall, following our internal tests of Stories, even the skeptics on our team started to appreciate this feature. We can no longer imagine Telegram without it.
Stories are in their last testing phase and will become available in early July. This will herald a new era on Telegram, where it will become even more fun and social than it currently is.
Check out a preview of Telegram Stories in the next post.
Российские газеты пишут, что Telegram якобы "подтвердил уязвимость" в приложении для компьютеров от компании Apple. Это не так.
Напротив, в нашем сообщении мы объяснили, что никакой уязвимости не было. Потому что заявленная “уязвимость” заключалась в следующем: "Если бы у злоумышленника уже был доступ к Вашему компьютеру, он мог бы управлять Вашей камерой и микрофоном через Telegram". Но если компьютер уже скомпрометирован, то доступ к микрофону через Telegram — меньшая из проблем, о которых стоит беспокоиться.
Как я отмечал ранее, в технических аспектах СМИ часто гонятся за громкими заголовками и вводят в заблуждение пользователей.
Это печально: в результате люди могут не придать значения настоящим угрозам. Например, в WhatsApp простого принятия звонка или просмотра видеозаписи было достаточно, чтобы злоумышленник получил полный доступ к Вашему телефону. Из-за этой уязвимости WhatsApp становился шпионской программой, которая позволяла хакерам взломать любой смартфон с WhatsApp.
Если заголовки СМИ о мнимых и реальных угрозах будут одинаковыми, люди перестанут воспринимать их всерьез — получится, как в басне про мальчика, который без нужды кричал “Волк“.
Режим энергосбережения и другие нововведения
(Power Saving Mode and More)
В этом обновлении:
— Режим энергосбережения
— Настройка скорости воспроизведения
— Время прочтения сообщений в небольших группах
— Автоматическая отправка пригласительных ссылок
— Сортировка наборов стикеров по времени использования
— Перевод описаний ботов
— Улучшенная поддержка папок в приложении для iOS
— Новые анимированные эмодзи
— Новые интерактивные эмодзи и реакции
— Сотни исправлений и улучшений
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#Telegram #blog #Premium
Конструктор аватаров, категории эмодзи, перевод чатов и многое другое
(Profile Photo Maker, Emoji Categories, Translating Entire Chats, and More)
В этом обновлении:
— Конструктор Аватаров
— Категории эмодзи
— Перевод чатов
— Использование сети
— Автосохранение полученных медиа
— Разрешения на отправку медиа
— Годовая подписка
— Выбор чатов в интерфейсе ботов
— Вход с Apple и Google ID
— Новые наборы эмодзи
— Новые интерактивные эмодзи
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#Telegram #blog #Premium
2022 has been a successful year for Telegram. Telegram reached 700 million active users and solidified its position as one of the top 5 most downloaded mobile apps in the world.
This year was also the first year of monetization for Telegram. The results exceeded our expectations and have allowed us to lay the financial foundation for future growth.
In 2022, we shipped dozens of new features, which changed how messaging apps work and how billions communicate. We shall relentlessly continue on that trajectory in 2023.
At Telegram, we are lucky to be able to do what we love. I wish everyone the ability to follow their passion in the New Year 💫
Регистрация без сим-карты, общие настройки автоудаления, темы 2.0 и многое другое
(No-SIM Signup, Global Auto-Delete Timer, Topics 2.0 and More)
В этом обновлении:
— Регистрация без сим-карты
— Общие настройки автоудаления
— Беспрецедентный уровень конфиденциальности
— Темы 2.0
— Активный антиспам-фильтр
— Временные QR-коды
— Поиск по эмодзи на iOS
— Подробные данные об использовании памяти и другие улучшения на Android
— Новые наборы эмодзи
— Новые интерактивные эмодзи
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#Telegram #blog #Premium
The blockchain industry was built on the promise of decentralization, but ended up being concentrated in the hands of a few who began to abuse their power. As a result, a lot of people lost their money when FTX, one of the largest exchanges, went bankrupt.
The solution is clear: blockchain-based projects should go back to their roots – decentralization. Cryptocurrency users should switch to trustless transactions and self-hosted wallets that don't rely on any single third party.
We, developers, should steer the blockchain industry away from centralization by building fast and easy-to-use decentralized applications for the masses. Such projects are finally feasible today.
It took only 5 weeks and 5 people including myself to put together Fragment – a fully decentralized auction platform. We were able to do this because Fragment is based on The Open Network, or TON – a blockchain platform that is fast and efficient enough to host popular applications (unlike Ethereum, which unfortunately remains outdated and expensive even after its recent tweaks).
Fragment has been an amazing success, with 50 million USD worth of usernames sold there in less than a month. This week, Fragment will expand beyond usernames.
Telegram's next step is to build a set of decentralized tools, including non-custodial wallets and decentralized exchanges for millions of people to securely trade and store cryptocurrencies. This way we can fix the wrongs caused by the excessive centralization, which let down hundreds of thousands of cryptocurrency users.
The time when the inefficiencies of legacy platforms justified centralization should be long gone. With technologies like TON reaching their potential, the blockchain industry should be finally able to deliver on its core mission – giving the power back to the people.
Темы в группах, коллекционные публичные имена, расшифровка видеосообщений и многое другое
(Topics in Groups, Collectible Usernames, Voice-to-Text for Video Messages and More)
В этом обновлении:
— Темы в группах
— Коллекционные публичные имена
— Расшифровка видеосообщений
— Новые наборы эмодзи
— Обновлённый ночной режим на iOS
— Настройка размера текста на Android
— Небольшие визуальные улучшения
— Новые интерактивные эмодзи и реакции
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#Telegram #blog #Premium
Some content creators started using third-party payment bots to sell access to individual posts in their Telegram channels. This way, content creators could receive close to 100% of whatever their subscribers paid, which was great.
Unfortunately, we received word from Apple that they were not happy with content creators monetizing their efforts without paying a 30% tax to Apple. Since Apple has complete control over its ecosystem, we had no alternative but to disable such paid posts on iOS devices.
This is just another example of how a trillion-dollar monopoly abuses its market dominance at the expense of millions of users who are trying to monetize their own content. I hope that the regulators in the EU, India and elsewhere start taking action before Apple destroys more dreams and crushes more entrepreneurs with a tax that is higher than any government-levied VAT.
In the meantime, we at Telegram shall work to offer creators powerful and easy-to-use tools to monetize their content – outside of Apple's restrictive ecosystem.
Hackers could have full access (!) to everything on the phones of WhatsApp users.
This was possible through a security issue disclosed by WhatsApp itself last week. All a hacker had to do to control your phone was send you a malicious video or start a video call with you on WhatsApp.
You are probably thinking "Yeah, but if I updated WhatsApp to the latest version, I am safe, right"?
Not really.
A WhatsApp security issue exactly like this one was discovered in 2018, then another in 2019 and yet another one in 2020 (tap each year's link to see the corresponding vulnerability). And yes, in 2017 before that. Prior to 2016, WhatsApp didn't have encryption at all.
Every year, we learn about some issue in WhatsApp that puts everything on their users' devices at risk. Which means it's almost certain that a new security flaw already exists there. Such issues are hardly incidental – they are planted backdoors. If one backdoor is discovered and has to be removed, another one is added (read the post "Why WhatsApp will never be secure" to understand why).
It doesn't matter if you are the richest person on earth – if you have WhatsApp installed on your phone, all your data from every app on your device is accessible, as Jeff Bezos found out in 2020. That's why I deleted WhatsApp from my devices years ago. Having it installed creates a door to get into your phone.
I'm not pushing people to switch to Telegram here. With 700M+ active users and 2M+ daily signups, Telegram doesn't need additional promotion. You can use any messaging app you like, but do stay away from WhatsApp – it has now been a surveillance tool for 13 years.
Every day, Telegram's moderators and AI tools remove millions of obviously harmful content from our public platform. However, tackling war-related coverage is seldom obvious.
Earlier this week, Hamas used Telegram to warn civilians in Ashkelon to leave the area ahead of their missile strikes. Would shutting down their channel help save lives — or would it endanger more lives?
It’s always tempting to act on emotional impulses. But such complex situations require thorough consideration that should also take into account the differences between social platforms.
Unlike other apps that algorithmically promote shocking content to unsuspecting people, on Telegram, users receive only the content to which they specifically subscribed. As such, it's unlikely that Telegram channels can be used to significantly amplify propaganda. Instead, they serve as a unique source of first-hand information for researchers, journalists, and fact-checkers.
While it would be easy for us to destroy this source of information, doing so risks exacerbating an already dire situation.
Истории от каналов, Ваша музыка в историях и многое другое
(Stories in Channels, View-Once Media and More)
В этом обновлении:
— Истории от каналов
— Стикеры-реакции в историях
— Истории с Вашей музыкой
— Однократный просмотр медиафайлов
— Новые уведомления о входе в учётную запись
— И другое
Подробнее в официальном блоге.
#Telegram #blog #Stories #Channels
Years ago, we built TON – a scalable and fast blockchain technology. TON was designed to serve hundreds of millions of social media users. Since 2020, the TON technology has been maintained and improved by the open source community.
Last year, we enabled our users to buy and sell Telegram usernames and IDs on Fragment – a TON-based auction platform. It was a phenomenal success. Telegram sold $120M worth of digital assets in auctions, while early buyers of some Telegram-related digital assets – such as Telegram anonymous numbers – have seen a 27x (!) increase in value after only 9 months.
This success showed the potential of Web 3.0 on Telegram. For the first time in history, users were allowed to own their social media identities directly. Now we want to integrate blockchain technologies deeper into Telegram. To do that, we worked with the folks from the TON community to add their TON Wallet to Telegram as a mini-app.
Starting this November, TON Wallet will be included in the settings and attachment menus for all our users outside the US and some other countries (if you added @wallet and have the latest version of Telegram, you can already see the wallet option in the menus). This step will allow developers to enable hundreds of new valuable features – similar to those pioneered on Fragment. TON Wallet, a third-party mini-app inside Telegram, will introduce a whole new dimension of Web 3.0 to hundreds of millions of Telegram users.
🥳 Today Telegram turns 10 years old.
In just a decade, Telegram gained over 800 million active users purely thanks to word of mouth. Through numerous updates and improvements over the years, Telegram has redefined what a modern messaging experience should be like.
The next step for Telegram is to go beyond messaging and spearhead innovation in social media in general. We should use our popularity to change the lives of billions for better, to inspire and uplift people on our planet.
Today’s gradual roll-out of stories for all users marks the beginning of this new stage in the history of Telegram. While this past decade was exciting, the next 10 years will be the time when Telegram reaches its true potential. 🥳
We at Telegram have been very lucky to be able to define the messaging trends for the past decade.
Just imagine: a compact team of 30 people has been responsible for creating the majority of the features you now see in modern messaging apps. Our competitors have developed a habit of copying our designs, without any alteration, to the point where it's become a running joke in the community (my favorite recent meme is this one).
We take this imitation as a compliment — it shows we're leading the way. While our competitors try to catch up, we will keep implementing top-quality features. My next post is about one of them.
Общие папки, выбор обоев для отдельных чатов и многое другое
(Shareable Chat Folders, Custom Wallpapers and More)
В этом обновлении:
— Общие папки с чатами
— Выбор обоев для отдельных чатов
— Больше возможностей для ботов
— Ссылки на ботов и подписка Telegram Premium на платформе Fragment
— Быстрая прокрутка в меню вложений
— Время прочтения сообщений в группах с темами
— Улучшения интерфейса
Читать подробнее в официальном блоге.
#Telegram #blog #Premium
🏆 In the last 5 years, Telegram surpassed Facebook Messenger to become the most popular cloud-based messaging app. Telegram is now second only to WhatsApp and is closing the gap year by year. No wonder our competitors are concerned! 🔥
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🎁 Желаю, чтобы для многих 2023 стал годом состояния потока и творческого созидания. В моменты увлеченной концентрации жизнь обретает смысл и получает ту наполненность, которая составляет предназначение каждого осознанного человека.
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Скрытые медиа, максимальная экономия памяти устройства, новые инструменты для фоторедактора, установка профильных фотографий контактам и многое другое
(Hidden Media, Zero Storage Usage, New Drawing Tools, Profile Pictures for Your Contacts, and More)
В этом обновлении:
— Отправка скрытых медиа
— Максимальная экономия памяти устройства
— Новые инструменты для фоторедактора
— Установка профильных фотографий контактам
— Публичные фотографии профиля
— Скрытие участников в больших группах
— Анимации на Android
— Новые анимированные эмодзи
— Новые интерактивные эмодзи
Читать подробнее в официальном блоге.
#Telegram #blog #Premium
It has been a year since Telegram started its monetization, but the results have already exceeded our expectations.
Unlike other apps, we took a privacy-conscious approach to ads: we decided that no personal data should be used for targeting and that promoted messages should only be shown in public one-to-many channels. Despite that, our ads have significantly outperformed the market and put Telegram on a steady path towards financial sustainability.
Telegram Premium, which we introduced just 5 months ago, quickly surpassed 1 million subscribers and has become one of the most successful examples of a social media subscription plan ever launched. While it still represents just a fraction of Telegram’s overall revenue, Telegram Premium is growing steadily every day, and one day may even rival our ads.
The future looks exciting. The additional monetization strategies I discussed in my previous posts are already bearing fruit, and the features we are working on now will set the foundation for further financial growth for Telegram in 2023.
Thanks to successful monetization, Telegram will be able to pay for the servers, traffic and wages necessary to keep building new features and supporting existing ones. While some other apps consider their users a tool to maximize revenue, we consider revenue a tool to maximize value for our users.
I feel particularly excited about today’s Telegram update. It adds topics to large groups, transforming these linear chats into slick mobile-friendly versions of good old Internet Forums.
Ironically, the very first popular internet service I built around 20 years ago was also an Internet Forum – a message board for students of my university, which eventually grew into the biggest student portal in the region.
16 years ago I again incorporated forums into the Communities section of VK, a social network I founded. Since VK was the most popular communication platform in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and other countries, tens of millions of people used the forum feature there.
I feel nostalgic about those times: I had yet to learn the skill of hiring engineers and designers back then, so I programmed and designed everything on my own, working 20 hours per day.
Today I am fortunate to have the best coding team in the world to recreate the forum experience for hundreds of millions across all platforms in a more modern, fast and accessible form. Telegram will now support organized conversations where thousands of people can concurrently discuss different subjects in the same group.
Topics today come packed with lots of features – including the ability to close and pin topics, flexible notification options and lots of fun animated emoji to be used as topic icons. But this is just the start. Taking advantage of the two-week delay caused by Apple’s review, we have begun to expand these new threaded groups into something even more powerful.
👨💻 We prepared some Halloween surprises for you, but it seems someone doesn’t want us to celebrate. Telegram's latest update has been stuck in Apple Review for more than a week, and we have not been informed about the current reason for the delay ⛔️
Apple claims they review apps within 24 hours, but, in our experience, it takes at least 7-10 days for any meaningful product update to reach the App Store. My friends who run smaller apps tell me it's even worse for them, as they have to wait more than a month just to ship bug fixes to their Apple users 😵💫
However, positive change is coming. Tomorrow, a new set of laws called the Digital Markets Act will come into force in the European Union. This regulation should put an end to the abuse of market power by gatekeepers like Apple and Google.
We, the developers, should start relying on the DMA to defend ourselves and our users. If you are an app developer who faces issues with the App Store or Google Play, let me know about it at pavel@telegram.org from your company e-mail address with the word "DMA" in the title. It will be up to Apple to decide if they want to spend their resources on improving their processes — or on fines.
Happy Halloween! 🥳
Time to fight some demons 😈
As promised, we've launched the ability to buy Telegram usernames on a dedicated platform – Fragment. Auctions for the most valuable usernames are already live, so make sure to check it out. In a few days, we will also introduce the ability for users to sell their existing usernames on Fragment.
For the first time in the history of social media, a fair, transparent market for usernames is established. Finally people will have ownership over their social media addresses, secured in the immutable ledger of a decentralized blockchain network.
This is just the beginning, and yet an important milestone – the power has started to shift into users' hands.
Вчера, по требованию Apple, мы заблокировали на iPhone/iPad несколько связанных с Белоруссией русскоязычных каналов суммарной численностью в 80 тысяч подписчиков. Администраторы еще нескольких подобных каналов общей численностью в 50 тысяч подписчиков получили предупреждения от нашей команды о том, что они нарушают правила Apple.
Администраторы каналов должны максимально серьезно воспринимать подобные предупреждения и стараться делать все возможное, чтобы допущенные нарушения не повторялись. Иначе их каналы будут неизбежно заблокированы в версиях Telegram, распространяемых через App Store и Google Play. Бегство в другие мобильные приложения не поможет им избежать ограничения доступа, так как любое другое мобильное приложение, точно так же, как и Telegram, будет обязано соблюдать правила магазинов приложений.
В лучшем случае, каналы-нарушители останутся доступны в веб-версиях и версиях Telegram, скачанных напрямую с telegram.org. Однако это не коснется тех каналов, которые нарушат правила самого Telegram, а не правила Apple или Google.
Например, вчера после повторного нарушения мы были вынуждены удалить русскоязычный канал, призывавший "резать" и "расстреливать" безоружных беззащитных людей. После того, как наши модераторы скрыли проблемный пост и отправили администраторам канала уведомление о недопустимости подобного контента, владельцы канала опубликовали то же сообщение заново, снабдив его скриншотом полученного ими предупреждения. Так поступать никогда не стоит – правила Telegram прямо запрещают публичные призывы к насилию. Повторное нарушение почти неизбежно приводит к удалению канала.