Ends in 2018, and that means it's time to sum it up.

The most significant event of this year in Russia, for the Telegram was blocking it. Despite it, he has consolidated around itself the political and civil activity. The rally was held, which attracted thousands of people who campaign for Internet freedom.

In addition, full swing preparing for the start of TON, and the messenger became the site of the media launch of a new era.

A week ago we launched a survey on the most important innovation in the Telegram this year. to summarize, and tell you more about innovations pleased users this year: tginfo.me/2018-features

The coming year promises to be very rich in competitions, updates and innovations. With the New 2019, friends!

The end of 2015: t.me/tginfo/36
The results of 2016: t.me/tginfo/692
The end of 2017: t.me/tginfo/1165

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Began the contest designers

Starting today and through March 31, anyone can offer its own development to improve the interface Telegram contains the location of the elements and animation. To participate you need to submit your work to @design_bot. The best works will be published on the official channel @designers, and their authors are unable to post in the team or the job part-time.

#contest

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Iranian authorities have called cryptocurrency Gram a threat to national security

"One of the most important factors in the prohibition Telegram was feeling a serious economic threat posed by its activities. Unfortunately, this threat was unheeded because of confusion in the political atmosphere of the country," said Jawad Javidnia, Secretary of the working group for determining criminal content.

Officials also stated that the initial offer of coins (ICO), which held the Telegram in the past year, potentially "undermined the national currency of Iran." The Supreme Council on cyberspace has approved the proposed ban, agreeing that the potential access token crypto Gram can get all the Iranian users of the application.

tehrantimes.com/news/431298/Aiding-Gram-cryptocurrency-constitutes-criminal-act

#Iran

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In the beta version of Telegram for iOS, it became possible to scan the qr code from a proxy using the built-in camera.

#iOS #beta

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In the beta version of Telegram for iOS the opportunity to choose to sort contacts by "name" (alphabetically) and "time of last activity" (the latter online).

#iOS #beta

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— How to share your list of proxy servers?

— Telegram for iOS is the ability to share the all active proxies in one list for installation.

You can share not only in the Telegram, but in other instant messengers, SMS, or simply copy it to the clipboard. This is useful if Telegram someone is unavailable due to locks.

#iOS #FAQ

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A Beta version of Telegram for iOS has received an updated design of the "channel Information".

In addition, each message channel has a button "Change". Previously, this functionality was only available for posts that were published less than 48 hours ago. At the moment the edit is working as always, as the feature is not yet enabled on the server side.

via: t.me/tgbeta/3390

#beta #IOS

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One user of the messenger showed his concept of the implementation of "tabs"

This is not a future possibility, as he wrote some of the channels, and the layout is drawn for the competition. At the moment it is impossible to say for sure, you will see this feature in the Telegram or not.

As a reminder, January 1 launched a contest to improve the UI.

#contest

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In the beta version of Telegram for iOS lost the ability to convert a group to a supergroup

Along with this, the opportunity to change the group type public (at the moment the conversion is working). It seems that soon will disappear the possibility of creating a group, and will be created from the supergroup.

#beta #iOS

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We were told that the ability to create groups will not disappear. In the future the default will be created that group, and only when performing certain actions, such as the translation in public, it will be automatically converted into a supergroup. The new client version will also be no system of notification of conversion.

Two years ago we wrote about the difference of groups from supergroups, now many functions of the supergroups are introduced in the normal group, and the conversion will be seamless and occur automatically.

#supergroup

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In the beta version of Telegram for iOS has an opportunity to undo the deletion of the chat in 5 seconds.

It would help if the chat was deleted by mistake.

#beta #iOS

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Telegram X Android notification settings will be an improvement.

Too often mentioned in groups? Soon it will not be a problem for you, because the notification mentions can be turned off.

Information about this appeared on the official translation platform Telegram.

Most likely, in the future, it will appear in all clients of the messenger.

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In today's update to Telegram for Android (version remained the same — 5.1.0) changed the authorization system to the messenger because of the new rules of host applications: they are no longer allowed to read SMS and use the call log (for activation through a call).

Now, besides the code, the user will receive a link clicking on which will confirm authorization.

#Android #update

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Durov eliminate the company Telegram Messenger LLP

In documents from the British registry of legal entities provided that Telegram Messenger LLP was established on 21 Feb 2014 the two companies — Dogged Labs Ltd (British virgin Islands) and Telegraph Inc. (Belize). Both structures were associated with Durov, told the interlocutors close to the founder of the social network "Vkontakte".

Actually, Telegram Messenger LLP belongs in equal shares to two companies: the first Telegraph Inc headquarters is located in Belize; the other Dogged Labs Ltd in the British virgin Islands. By the way, Pavel Durov its “managing partner.”

rbc.ru/technology_and_media/10/01/2019/5c37373b9a794770623e4d4d

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Telegram Desktop has been updated to version 1.5.7 beta

What's new in 1.5.7 beta:
— A choice of different sets of Emoji in the Settings > chat Settings.
— Flexible configuration of calls: the device input and output, MIC check, etc.
Settings > Advanced settings > call Settings.
— When adding a bot as a subscriber it is proposed to appoint him administrator.
— Hot keys Ctrl+1 — Ctrl+5 to go to the corresponding fixed chat.

Download: from the official website or from GitHub.

#update #desktop #beta

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Colleagues from channel Telegram Beta reminded of the importance of using two-factor authentication, and added that more security is necessary to bind the mail.

Let us examine the pros and cons of adding the email to two-factor authentication: tginfo.me/tg-security

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Charlie Lee called Pavel Durov to deal with the scum groups in the Telegram

In addition to spam in private messages, spread the inviting groups. The founder of Litecoin Charlie Lee called Pavel Durov to deal with the scum groups in the Telegram and in General to improve the protection inviting.

After reading the article, be sure to take the poll below, to transfer this data to the leadership of the messenger.

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Lock Telegram prevented the Russians to heat the water in the boiler

The owner of the water heater Ariston Dmitry Kites complained that his home appliances have ceased to work because of a blocking Telegram in Russia. Kites have noticed that can run the heater on Wi-Fi, despite the fact that the user this feature is. The indignation he expressed at the review on "Yandex.Market"

After some time, the official representatives of Ariston Dragon replied that the application does not work due to blocking Amazon servers your company uses. "This is due to blocking of IP addresses of the messenger Telegram." — said the employees of the brand.

https://lenta.ru/news/2019/01/16/ne_rabotaet/

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Today on the territory of the Russian Federation has blocked a huge number of MTProxy.

On different providers and in different regions of the lock can be different, in most cases this concerns large operators.

Under the distribution fell and our server. Until we restore the performance, you can choose a proxy from our list .

If you have links to sites with working proxy please send them in @tginfochat

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Durov on his channel told about the plans for 2019

The founder of Telegram told about the great growth of users in 2018. And promised that in 2019 the dreams of the users about the long-awaited features will come true.

via: t.me/lady love/95

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