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Andrey Yakovenko, official Telegram artist, has released 15 new stickerpacks:

https://telegram.me/geekschannel/473

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✳️ TELEGRAM | REWARDS ✳️

Telegram has paid $450.000 to more than 50 artists who created sticker packs within half a year.

Telegram has announced first results of sticker pack authors bounty program. From March to August 2016, more than 50 artists received $450k, says creative director of Telegram Andrey Yakovenko on his VK page.

In conversation with vc.ru Yakovenko told that the size of the bounty fund was $80.000. The remaining $370.000 were used to pay for stickers themselves — $80 per sticker. The bounty size of each artist is determined individually: it depends mainly on the popularity of the sticker pack and starts from $700.

Payments for stickers occured each month within the last 6 months. «Each month we collect reports on the work done and transfer payments for the new stickers» — told Telegram representative.

Bounty was paid as a bonus to the montly payment in August. In the future the company wants to continue working using that scheme.

Yakovenko didn’t tell the exact number of artists who received bounty. He explained that the number is constantly changing. «Someone leaves for personal reasons, someone new comes. Some go off to save energy and ideas. We want everyone to draw one set per month» — he explained.

Telegram team selects the works based on the quality of stickers, the author’s ability to create their own characters, skills to depict emotions, and humor. In order to participate in bounty program one should send 3 stickers in color with one character (with the size of no less than 512x512 pixels) and 5 outline sketches with the same character showing different emotions to Yakovenko’s Telegram account (@Yakovenko).

The next bounty payment is planned for the New Year, the size of the bounty will depend on the fullness of the artists.

Yakovenko says that the number of artists is not that big so bounty fund allows to increase the number of authors.

🇷🇺 Source (in russian)

🚀 Telegram official packs: Post 1 | Post 2 | Post 3

#telegram #stickers #reward #contest

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Telegram Desktop was updated to version 0.10.3

— New cute design for the Settings page

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If you type "moderate" at Settings in TDesktop, it will allow to enable "Moderate mode".

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Telegram Desktop got a lot of internal settings for developers and testers like:

moderate
testmode
workmode
debugmode
loadlang
crashplease

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✳️ TELEGRAM | TIP ✳️

Telegram Desktop got a lot of internal settings for developers and testers like:

moderate
testmode
workmode
(awesome 😎)
debugmode
loadlang
crashplease
(our favourite 😁)

PLEASE use this settings at your own risk. We encourage you to take a look at the source code to understand more:

ℹ️ All existing flags/settings
▶️ For example, Moderate setting: It's related to keyboard interaction.

#desktop #tip #settings

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Another useful setting for Telegram Desktop:

workmode

What does it do? Hide all muted chats

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Telegram Desktop now shows the public aliases you own when you try to create the 6th one.

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TELEGRAM | STICKERS

As you might know, Apple opened apps, stickers and games store for iMessage and Telegram started selling stickerpacks (from designers who cooperate with Telegram) in that store.

This is what Telegram Team said to vc.ru:

"In cooperation with Telegram's designers thousands of awesome sticker packs have been created. Some of them will be available to iMessage users for $1 or $2 per pack. All earned money will be used for extra payments to designers and invested in the creation of new sticker sets. In Telegram all sticker packs are available for free"

🇷🇺 Source (in Russian)

#telegram #stickers #imessage

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Official Telegram stickers available for iMessage users ($1 or $2 per pack) at iMessage Store.

Remember: At Telegram they will be always free 😎

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✳️ FACEBOOK | BOTS ✳️

Facebook Messenger chatbots now support payments

The feature was announced by David Marcus at Techcrunch Disrupt SF 2016, who noted that the payments system will support most credit cards and payment services including Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Stripe, PayPal and Braintree.

📽 Demo video on Vimeo.

Pavel Durov announced that Telegram is working on this feature one year ago, on the same event: Techcrunch Disrupt SF 2015.

#bots #facebook #payment

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Speculation: Facebook Messenger’s source code reveals hidden Rooms feature

The screenshots show how users can join public rooms, chat with friends as well as strangers using the standard Messenger interface and features, how to manage a Room, and the ability to share the Room to get other people to join with a public link.

And again, this sounds familiar to us 🤔

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Facebook Messenger’s source code reveals hidden Rooms feature:

Chat with friends as well as strangers and share the Room to get other people to join with a public link.

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✳️ TELEGRAM | STRINGS ✳️

Telegram updated Android strings with new sections that could be new features of Telegram 3.12 coming this month (v3.11 came on August 3).

The new text added to Telegram refers to:

- Photo editor (draw, stickers, text, duplicate...)
- Score (for games?)
- Autosend your name and telegram id to websites via bot.

via @tglive

#telegram #rumour #strings

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Telegram updated Android strings with sections, maybe new features coming on 3.12?

- New photo editor.
- Score (for games?).
- Autosend your name + id to websites via bots.

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Pavel @Durov - Street Art at St. Petersburg

Made by Dmitry Sergeyevich Tsvetkov

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History repeats itself: WhatsApp copied another Telegram feature 😒

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Messaging apps are now bigger than social networks

vía http://www.businessinsider.com/the-messaging-app-report-2015-11

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