📰 The problem with the official client for iOS. Since the appearance of direct in channels in version 11.12 (3 months ago), the button to open a linked chat (which is used for comments) disappears and the direct channel button appears in its place. This is a deliberate action of the developers or not — it is still unclear; but in any case it looks monstrous, given that there is the same button in the bottom panel and to the left of «Mute».

However, if you are an administrator of such channels with right to communicate with subs, then there will still be the button to open a linked group, due to the fact that you will not be able to answer yourself in monoforums.

Still, there are 2 ways to open such groups in such channels:
• open the comments and hold «Back».
• through @replies if you received a reply to your comment.

🏆 Students from St. Petersburg took first place in the main international programming championship (ICPC).

👏 Congratulations on this impressive achievement to the champions — Leonid Danilevich, Maxim Turevsky, and Fyodor Ushakov. The guys represent SPbU — the oldest university in Russia.

🥇 For the first time, the SPbU team took first place in the ICPC in 2000 and 2001, when my brother participated in it. Since then, St. Petersburg students have become absolute winners 10 more times, making this city a world leader in the number of championship noscripts.

😼 Proud of the achievements of the university and the city — and I hope to personally congratulate the champions in Dubai. I will be glad if Telegram can assist in the implementation of their future projects and ideas. 💫

- Durov

📰 New #Telemojis:

🎣,🏑,🏒,🥍,🪃,🏏

Source : 💌💌💌

📰 IT HAPPENED!! After the Apple Event 2025, the designer @SOUICdsgn showed his Telegram concept (fan-made) in the Liquid Glass style [video] — a revolutionary UI in iOS 26.

🎉 The most important thing — the Unigram developer — Fela — CONFIRMED that the Liquid Glass style WILL be integrated into Telegram.

Sources: 💌💌💌 + 💌💌💌

#failure 📰 Domains t.me, telegram.org, fragment.com and stel.com were not working and were partially down and were restored to service a few minutes ago. VPN did not solve the problem partially either.

Again #failure. 📰 Bot owners and users complain about slow responses of the Bot API.

Now it’s fully regular.

@charliekirk’s death is an assault on free speech. He fought for open debate, and enemies of truth hated him for it.

Free expression is under attack worldwide. Once free speech is lost, every other freedom soon follows. We must continue Charlie’s mission to defend it ✉️

📰 And that day @juli published the story (visibility for her contacts), where it is shown that @monk allegedly gave his beloved the 🚀Mission Uranus model gift.

In fact, this is a fake screenshot from Yuli. The thing is that there is no caption above the message with the gift on the screenshot that Pasha gave Yuli that gift, and the message with the gift itself is suspiciously large considering the scale of interface. 🧐 And the gift is stored not on the account, but on the TON wallet, and if you look in Tonviewer, we will see other 🎁Stellar Rocket gifts.

🗞 The worst thing is that this is being spread in many media outlets. 📈 This move is probably aimed at increasing the popularity of an extremely fashionable gift, although it is not a fact that the story itself is real.

📰 What is the problem with the new feature of sending gifts on channels?
Undoubtedly, this new feature is good; it can be used as an alternative storage for gifts or for giveaways/auctions. However, it has been eight months since Telegram has not addressed possible issues with this update.

Here are the important points I highlighted:

1. Notifications for incoming sent gifts are disabled by default on all channels. This means admins may initially be unaware of gifts arriving on the channel. Importantly, the "gifts" tab is not the first in channel profiles (it is behind "stories"), so admins might not see or monitor changes in the profile and might scroll past it.

2. The notification option will only appear if the channel receives at least one gift. You will have to spend at least 15⭐️ for the button to appear, in case a spammer sends a gift before you.

3. The validity period from the moment a gift is sent is 7 days. This applies to accounts as well, especially those who rarely go online. Yes, there is an option to hide gifts, but you know, it won’t really help you because you will still want to somehow get rid of the gifts.

4. There is no control over incoming gifts. Unlike accounts, channels cannot block certain types of gifts and Telegram Premium (or rather giveaways). Channels will have to accept all premium gifts, even if they are intended for malicious purposes.

Why is this important? This was even addressed by the "Russian Cyber Police" which reports that illegal resources such as drug shops, casinos, and extremism are covertly advertised through gift captions. According to them, ignoring such situations may lead to channel blocks (complaints through Roskomnadzor).

#tip: regularly (at least once a week) check your channels, enable notifications, and sell such gifts.

Growth in the last 30 days 😺

📰 Pavel Durov was invited and announced as a special guest at Digital Bridge 2025 takes part in the International Forum in the capital Kazakhstan [Astana]. The forum will be held on October 2-4 with the support of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.

It was a pleasure to meet with the founder of Telegram and exchange views on the eve of his participation in the Digital Bridge forum in Kazakhstan. His ideas will be a valuable contribution to this global dialogue on innovation and digital transformation.

— words of confirmation from the Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the UAE Rauan Zhumabek.

In addition to Durov, some celebrities will come, namely: Valentin Petukhov, John Hopcroft, Peter Norvig, Paul Kim, Lily Liu.

Source: 💌💌💌
Website: 🌐🌐🌐
🎟️ Ticket price = 10,000 tenge, after October 1 it will increase by one and a half times more. However, a V.I.P. ticket costs 700,000 tenge.

📰 The username @username_bot was somehow stolen and put up for sale.
The official bot is used for official username recovery through third-party social networks.

At the time of writing this post, the thief was blocked.