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Couple PSAs regarding Telegram's latest updates:
Clicking/tapping on image links opens a web browser instead of previewing the image in the app
This is a new """feature""" introduced in Replies 2.0 that Telegram allegedly has no plans on rolling back currently.
If you don't like this functionality, make your voice heard on these Telegram bug reports:
- Suggestion to revert the change
- Windows bug report
- iOS bug report
- Android bug report
For the time being, I highly suggest using @FoxBot to share images with people. FoxBot will share posts directly as an image, and it will attach both the direct link and source link to the post. It supports a multitude of platforms including FurAffinity, Bluesky, Mastodon, Tumblr, Twitter, e621, and more. I use it heavily in my personal group chats.
You may also be familiar with the services fxTwitter (also known as FixTweet) and vxTwitter. FixTweet (which encompasses fxtwitter, pxtwitter, and fixupx) has found a workaround for the time being that allows them to use Telegram's "Instant View" feature on mobile devices and Telegram Mac. Unfortunately, Telegram Desktop (i.e. Windows) does not support this feature. Their GitHub issue on the subject is here. vxTwitter and Nitter.net (another similar service) are currently still broken on all devices.
Non-premium users are seeing "sponsored" messages (ads) in public channels
Members of public channels run by furry artists yesterday reported seeing "sponsored" messages for crypto stuff in those channels. It appears that these messages are only visible to users who don't pay for Telegram Premium, and that they only appear in public channels. The owners of these channels have no control over whether their channels show ads or what content is in them.
Setting the channel visibility to private may be a workaround to disable ads in the channel. This does come with some caveats:
- The channel will no longer appear in searches
- The channel will no longer have a custom URL (e.g. https://news.1rj.ru/str/custom_url)
- People will no longer be able to view/join the channel by clicking/tapping on the channel name in forwarded messages
If you are a channel owner and you decide to convert your channel from public to private in order to combat the spread of ads, I would highly suggest sharing Telegram's autogenerated URL to join your channel in your posts so that people can still find you if someone forwards something of yours to them. If you own a domain name and you want a pretty URL, you can also redirect it (or set up a subdomain and redirect that) to your Telegram channel - for example, I have https://telegram.thesammon.com redirecting to this one.
Regarding Telegram Premium - please don't subscribe just to get rid of ads. That just encourages this shitty behavior. Heck, send Telegram a message and delete your subnoscription to show that this won't be tolerated. (This is just my opinion, I won't think any worse of you if you keep your Premium subnoscription.)
Anyway, I hope this helps!
Clicking/tapping on image links opens a web browser instead of previewing the image in the app
This is a new """feature""" introduced in Replies 2.0 that Telegram allegedly has no plans on rolling back currently.
If you don't like this functionality, make your voice heard on these Telegram bug reports:
- Suggestion to revert the change
- Windows bug report
- iOS bug report
- Android bug report
For the time being, I highly suggest using @FoxBot to share images with people. FoxBot will share posts directly as an image, and it will attach both the direct link and source link to the post. It supports a multitude of platforms including FurAffinity, Bluesky, Mastodon, Tumblr, Twitter, e621, and more. I use it heavily in my personal group chats.
You may also be familiar with the services fxTwitter (also known as FixTweet) and vxTwitter. FixTweet (which encompasses fxtwitter, pxtwitter, and fixupx) has found a workaround for the time being that allows them to use Telegram's "Instant View" feature on mobile devices and Telegram Mac. Unfortunately, Telegram Desktop (i.e. Windows) does not support this feature. Their GitHub issue on the subject is here. vxTwitter and Nitter.net (another similar service) are currently still broken on all devices.
Non-premium users are seeing "sponsored" messages (ads) in public channels
Members of public channels run by furry artists yesterday reported seeing "sponsored" messages for crypto stuff in those channels. It appears that these messages are only visible to users who don't pay for Telegram Premium, and that they only appear in public channels. The owners of these channels have no control over whether their channels show ads or what content is in them.
Setting the channel visibility to private may be a workaround to disable ads in the channel. This does come with some caveats:
- The channel will no longer appear in searches
- The channel will no longer have a custom URL (e.g. https://news.1rj.ru/str/custom_url)
- People will no longer be able to view/join the channel by clicking/tapping on the channel name in forwarded messages
If you are a channel owner and you decide to convert your channel from public to private in order to combat the spread of ads, I would highly suggest sharing Telegram's autogenerated URL to join your channel in your posts so that people can still find you if someone forwards something of yours to them. If you own a domain name and you want a pretty URL, you can also redirect it (or set up a subdomain and redirect that) to your Telegram channel - for example, I have https://telegram.thesammon.com redirecting to this one.
Regarding Telegram Premium - please don't subscribe just to get rid of ads. That just encourages this shitty behavior. Heck, send Telegram a message and delete your subnoscription to show that this won't be tolerated. (This is just my opinion, I won't think any worse of you if you keep your Premium subnoscription.)
Anyway, I hope this helps!
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