Accepted, will arrive in next versions.

New version is out!
1.0.8 (TD 1.8.15)

Changes since last stable:

Option to hide phone number from drawer: set show_phone_in_drawer to false.

Option scales to set custom interface scales (no more than 6 different values, values from 75 to 300 allowed).

Keyboard shortcut to save draft to cloud (Ctrl+S by default).

Members in channel are now "Subscribers".

Channel link in "About" now depends on language.

Collapsed archived chats now have an icon.

New JSON config option net_speed_boost to increase upload/download speeds.
Values: null (default), "low", "medium", "high".
It also accepts 0 (default), 1, 2 and 3 (high) as values.
Taken from TDMT: https://github.com/mediatube/tdesktop
Warning: can work bad with low connection speeds.

New options in Settings > "three-dots": "Show custom settings" and "Restart Kotatogram".

JSON-translations: they will rewrite language values that doesn't exist in official apps. Support for Russian is already included.

Show admin titles in chat members list.

Bugfixes since last stable:

Fixed "Channel is not accessible" error, when trying to open discussion channel from group post if target channel is private and you are not subscribed to it.

Fixed autoupdater check: now MTProto checker should work too.

Soon.

New beta is out!
1.0.9 (TD 1.8.15)

This beta brings settings menu: Settings > Kotatogram Settings. I'm planning to do all current settings in this menu, and then push to stable.

Currently supported settings:
• Sticker height
• Big emoji outline
• Always show scheduled

Of forks and clones

Initially my repository was a direct fork. It seemed convenient at first, but soon I ran into some problems.

The thing is that forks doesn't fit well, when you do something stand-alone, they fit more for pull requests.

Forks' features:
• No more than one fork for one account. You can make organization and fork there, but if there is already fork of original repo, then you get no more than one direct fork.
• Comparsion with default branch of oringinal repo. On main page of your fork you see difference with original.
• No converting to private repo if original is public. You should copy it to yours repo first.
• Fork commits are excluded from profile statistics. Instead they are included for original repo after merge. Bonus: you can't pin fork in your profile if you don't have it on account, even if you're working on it.
• Can't search repository code. It might come in handy, when you're doing something standalone.

Maybe forks have some other restrictions, but I switched from fork to clone because of search. Since my client is at early stage, it wasn't long. I lost only 1 watch and 3 stars.

I changed links, so new repo is available on old link: github.com/kotatogram/kotatogram-desktop

Old one was archived. It's available for now, but I plan to remove it soon since there is no need in it.

Version 1.0.10 beta is out!

There are some problems with Linux build, so it will be tomorrow. Since #Windows Build is ready, I'm dropping it now.

Changes:
Added menu for font changing to "Kotatogram Settings".

New version is out!
1.1 (TD 1.8.15)

Changes:

— New settings menu if you don't like JSON for some reason. "scales" key is not here yet.
— Removed start options for setting fonts, since it was replaced by JSON and menu configs.
— Some redesigns for admin ranks in profile list and hidden phone number. Also group owner rank now has different color.
— More app name replacements to differ from original Telegram Desktop.
— New hotkeys: Ctrl+LMB to hide pinned message, even if you're an admin, Ctrl+LMB and Ctrl+Enter to mention without username when suggested.
— Highlight specific media in album when opened from reply, link or search.
— Ghost icon in dialogs and status "account inaccessible" for deleted accounts. Status "account inaccessible" is shown even in block list.

Fixes:

— Fixed opening of hashtag with archive opened.

Also I've decided to create chat. Since my audience is mostly Russian, I'm linking it to Russian channel. English speakers are welcome there too. If there will be enough non-Russian speakers, I'll create an English chat too.

What is chat for:
— Bug reports.
— Feature suggestions.
— Update discussions.

Off-topic chat will be created too if needed.

How to join: open @kotatogram_ru and click "Discuss" button in profile (or "Discuss" button in bottom if you're subscribed).

English chat is now created too. Click "Discuss" button if you're subscribed or "Discuss" button in profile.

Also Kotatogram update will be tomorrow. It will only update TDesktop sources to 1.9.1. Since TD 1.9.1 is beta, it will be in beta branch too.

Members of @ArchLinuxChatRU has packaged Kotatogram Desktop (binary) to AUR.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kotatogram-desktop-bin/

If you have Arch Linux or Arch-based Linux distro, you can install it from your package manager (or wrapper like yay) if you've enabled AUR support.