we know games are not meant for channels (you can't share them), but we couldn't resist to use a little hack 😎

let's see who is the best!

What do you think about the new games platform?

Telegram Desktop new features coming:

- Now you can change desktop notifications screen corner and mac count (except macOS) + quick reply from them!

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Today is Durov's birthday (32 years old, happy birthday!) and he posted 10 lessons he learnt from making VK.com, we tried to translate the text:

It has been 10 years. I publish 10 lessons that I received in the process of creating VKontakte:

1. All can be done quickly. The first version of VKontakte was released in 2006. Growth was very fast. Contrary to popular belief, the work is done quickly and accurately either, or long and bad.

2. Everything need to be done quickly. In 2006 there was a few more sites like VKontakte with the same concept. Now they are forgotten because VKontakte grew faster.

3. Growing needs a direction. VKontakte grew from the success of St. Petersburg State University Forum - a site for scholars. Each next step should be based on the foundation of having a successful experience.
Your ideas should evolve in something which fits the best. Something logical and natural like this evolution: small website -> university forum -> Social network.

4. People feel the quality of what you offer. Each nice touch and attention to detail, no matter how insignificant it may seem, brings new loyal users.

5. It's efficient to have multiple roles at the same time (like coder and designer). The first months of existence of VKontakte I created all the code, graphics, language interfaces, marketing. Combining it possible to eliminate the time spent on communication.

6. Trust only your intuition. Whenever I listened to the opinion of "older and reasonable" people, I lost time. If you feel that you need to do - ignore the opinion of the authorities.

7. Quantity doesn't turn into quality. VK team was small, but consisted of talented and motivated people. Such team is more efficient that large team of hired people who work for money.

8. Don't 100% trust anyone. It doesn' matter how much you think someone is trustworthy, and how many years know him.

9. Fear doesn't make sense. During VKontakte there was a lot of problems like DDoS-attacks, criminal, stock war, melting server, media wars, lawsuits, intrigues. Emotions are not productive - do what you need to do.

10. Principles of important benefits. VKontakte defended the interests of users, while its competitors have betrayed them in favor of advertisers, shareholders, officers. Benefit others - the only possible cause of true success.

🌐 via @tglive

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Happy 100000th birthday Pavel! 🎂🎉🎁

🔥 small improvements at latest beta:

- Camera buttons reordered
- Blue button now is transparent

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🔥 small improvements at latest beta:

- Now you can add caption to videos, and even mention people on the caption

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And we got 2 good news:

1⃣ This small improvements are now ready on Play Store, update will come in the next hours.

2⃣ Android code for 3.13.1 version has been released at GitHub. Plus messenger users will love this.

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Telegram connection problems

Connection issues in Latin America, parts of North America and some other countries due to a hardware issue; engineers are on it. Hang on!

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Telegram connection problems


Issues in North and Latin America: cooling system died in one data center, massive overheating. Data safe, working with DC staff to fix.


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Telegram connection problems

And everything is back to normal for 99% of our users. If you're in the 1%, hang on just a little longer – it will be alright very soon!

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🔥 New beta features

Revamped individual notifications menu (groups, channels, users...)

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🔥New beta features

Little improvement when adding users to a new group/channel

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🔥 New beta features

Now you can add people to group searching by alias (this feature was only working for TDesktop)

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Two interesting articles about WhatsApp (shared by @durov)

Electronic Frontier Fundation (EFF) - EFF's 4 biggest security concerns about WhatsApp

Huffington Post - 6 Reasons you should stop using WhatsApp


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🔥 Telegram Desktop v0.10.16

— New audio player design
— Moved to Qt library version 5.6.2

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Durov answers to:

Messenger and WhatsApp named the most secure messaging apps by Amnesty International

goo.gl/8DCczd

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🔥 Telegram Desktop v0.10.17

— New cute control for adding members to your groups

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