🪦 Malicious alternative client Telega ceases operations on July 1. This was announced on the official channel.

👍 The reasons for the project's demise are clear:
• It is impossible to comply with all Russian legislative requirements for access to the blocked messenger on the territory of Russia.
• Platform restrictions — this is mass exposure from the community, followed by recognition as spyware in the opinion of Cloudflare, a warning banner about communication insecurity from Telegram, and removal from the App Store.

🤑 The team will also refund those who have an active "Telega Plus" subscription (oh, hearing about this for the first time?).

#tip: You can remove Telega from your devices and among authorized sessions right now.

Meme: 💌💌💌

😀 Google is ending support for the Tenor API for third-party developers. For those hearing this for the first time, this is a 🎞-platform also used by the Telegram messenger to search for animations within the sticker and emoji panel, as well as through the official inline bot @gif. ☹️ According to Google, the decision to shut down this API was made due to a focus on the core services of the duopoly. There is a high probability that the reason lies in the huge power consumption for Tenor with lower earnings. The Tenor API remains available for the Gboard keyboard (Android and iOS) and in Google Messages and Google Chat, but for everyone else, it is simply being shut down.

🫸 Previously, Telegram used GIPHY as a platform for searching animations but abandoned it because the service was run by Facebook (now Meta). And it is unlikely that Durov's project will choose it.

✏️ The Edit feature is back for Indian users

The message editing feature is now available to Indian users everywhere, just as before, and detailed edit information is also shown for edited messages.

What's new in Rich Messages?

1. Premium is required. This is confirmed by a screenshot.

2. Through 📎media attachments, you can create such messages; the item is called "Article".

😀 Eduard Petrov deleted the original post. His source provided no evidence (screenshots, techdata, transactions) that the sale of Telega messages on the darknet was fake.

Meanwhile, the Telega team spent over an hour searching for any possible sources, despite the fact that such "leaks" are impossible.

💻 #TDesktop v6.9:

• Rich Text Formatting for Bots.
• Guardian Bots for Group Chats.
• Links in Poll Options.
• Viewer for Markdown files in .md format.
• Instant View that's really instant.

v6.9.1:

• Fix sending several same custom emoji.
• Fix some rich messages layout glitches.

v6.9.2:

• Fix possible crash in OpenGL init (Linux).
• Fix possible crash in calls (Windows on ARM).
• Fix working with system proxy (Windows).
• Fix display of rich messages without text.
• Fix display of rich messages in Recent Actions.
• Replace dispatch with TooManyCooks (Linux).

v6.9.3:

Fix possible crash in formula parsing.
Fix field resize after Undo/Redo.
Fix OpenGL in Windows build.

🆕 v6.9.4:

• Add rich message editor with media, tables and math formulas.
• Show rich message drafts with full formatting in chat compose area.
• Add text recognition with selection and copying to media viewer images.
• Add swipe navigation and pinch zoom gestures to media viewer.
• Support zoom and dragging files out in shared media photos.
• Allow adapting existing stickers into custom emoji.
• Add media viewer video playback to system media controls.
• Add alphabetical fast-scroll index to contacts box.
• Improve screen reader accessibility for chats list and folders.

🕓 Previous versions.
⬇️ Download: website or Github.