💻 Telegram #Desktop 🆕 v6.3:

Support for Gift auctions.
Support for Live stories.
New profile pages design.

🕓 Previous versions.
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📰 One telegram enjoyer found an exploit where he took emojipacks and sticker packs under his control. He changed the names of the affected packs, adding the username of his channel, and could see their statistics, where a total of 10 million times were used in 8 packs.

😓 Also, according to him, control over sticker packs allows to access BotFather.

🔖 Top 3 Productivity Features You Didn’t Know You Needed

Want to get more done without trying harder? Nicegram has 3 tools that turn chaos into clarity in a few seconds.

🔴 Group Call Recorder
One tap → full call recording → saved automatically.
Meetings, ideas and important decisions stay safe and organized.
It feels clean, simple and stress-free.

⌛️ AI Chat + Voice Assistant
AI Chat helps you by creating summaries, suggesting replies and answering questions about any conversation.
Too busy to type? Talk to the Voice Assistant and let it read, write, and explain for you.
It’s like productivity on autopilot.

🖥 Friends Activities
You can instantly see what your contacts wrote in groups and channels you share.
No endless scrolling and no missed context.
You always stay updated even when you are not online.

These 3 features make your everyday flow smoother and faster. Try them and feel the upgrade immediately.

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📰 A sharp and unexpected #failure of the Cloudflare hosting provider affected not only many popular sites and services, but also Fragment, the Tonnel gift marketplace and others. 🌩 Developers are studying this problem.

📰 Good morning starts with the bot @channel_bot, which received the SCAM tag. Relatively recently and not for long.

📰 For those who haven't read the blog, Telegram directly stated that all subsequent gifts will only be through auction, not like before.

There are pros and cons to gift auctions.
➕ The pros relate to the fact that Telegram will earn more from the stars that were purchased (regardless of currency) in advance for these auctions, as well as preventing botting (software for auto-purchases).
➖ The cons: newcomers to the crypto sphere and poorer users will find it harder to receive gifts due to higher bids from wealthier users. Although there are plenty of NFTs that can be bought, for example, to personalize profiles and channels and to gift to relatives.

🏆 The blog also says that the numbers of such gifts will depend on the auction position. That is, I assume, the gift will be №1 after the upgrade, even if you delay a bit in improving it. This, of course, is an incentive for everyone to spend as many stars as possible for the top spot.
••• For example, in one round with 20 places, if you take 12th place in the second round, you will get gift №32 upon upgrading in any case.

💭 Any thoughts on this?

📰 Returning to Russian realities. 🇷🇺 The State Duma called the decision to restrict calls on Telegram and WhatsApp the right one. In an interview with the propaganda agency TASS, Sergei Boyarsky, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, said that «blocking calls on messengers has been completely justified». He was, of course, referring to the supposed fight against fraudsters.

Let's return to the decision implemented on August 11th of this year, when Roskomnadzor degraded voice calls on WhatsApp* and Telegram. I consider it absolutely correct and timely, and it also curbed the wave of fraudulent activity, which was primarily carried out against our citizens through these two platforms.

🎪 Mr. Nemkin compared these two most popular messengers in Russia with the national messenger MAX, which has a «completely different security structure» and a dedicated service that promptly responds to user complaints.

A huge number of such suspicious accounts and attempts to commit fraud were blocked. And this suggests that there's every hope for optimism about the future, that Max will ultimately become the platform that will ultimately strive to eliminate fraudulent activity or, if attempted, will be able to quickly stop it and protect our people.

❌ In August, RKN announced that Telegram and WhatsApp were being used by criminals as their primary communication channels, reminding them that the Antifraud system, which blocks calls with spoofed numbers, has been in operation in Russia since 2024.

As a result, almost all such calls have migrated to foreign messaging apps that refuse to ensure the safety of Russian users and society.

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#tip: 📰 Quoting is always better than just replying.
↩️ Update 10.2 with "Replies 2.0" brought quoting excerpts of texts, which made it very convenient to respond to certain words. But there are those moments that make it worth using it rather than just swiping a message to reply.

1. Quoting always preserves the context of the reply message. Few people know, but unlike simple replies to messages, the text you quoted will always be saved in your messages in reply blocks, even if some characters and words change in the replied messages. This, for example, helps a lot in controversial discussions, which your opponents can substitute for the context in the reply tray by simply editing messages. Please note that if you have highlighted a specific piece of text, and something has already changed in this message, an error will occur when sending it.

There are also some android clients who, even with a simple swipe on a message, always capture the entire text of the selected message for quoting. It is very convenient and practical.

2. As a rule, in the quoted blocks, instead of just answers, there is more area. This helps, for example, if other users did not have to click and go to distant messages, it is very useful if distant messages do not load after clicking on the quotes block. In regular replies to messages, there is always a small reply block, let alone a quote. You can also click on the quote block once to expand it, and the second time to go to the replied message.

📰🔔 All notifications related to the site bugs.telegram.org will come to @bugs (instead of t.me/+42777).

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