Forwarded from Instant View Contest News
The results of the First Instant View Contest are in. Congratulations to the winners and a big thank you to all the participants!
Tallying up the final results was no easy task. You've submitted a total of 37,507 templates β and our admins processed 29,482 issues and 402 appeals to find out the winners. This work is now completed and today we're launching Instant View for 2,274 websites! All thanks to you.
The winners
1. Pavel T. and Chuchu shared the first place with 40 winning templates each. The first prize will therefore be split between them, so both Pavel and Chuchu are getting a bonus of $5,000 in addition to the rewards for their templates.
2. Yuri Panarin took the second place with 38 templates and also earns a bonus prize of $5,000.
3. Ο came in third with 35 templates. We decided to award a bronze prize of $2,500 to Ο as recognition for his extended participation in the development of the IV ecosystem by way of thoughtful issue reports and insightful commentary.
You can see the full results of the contest on this page:
https://instantview.telegram.org/contest/top
We will contact everyone who won a prize about their rewards from the verified account +42454 in Telegram. All rewards will be sent out before August 31, 2017.
Publishing templates
Thanks to the wonderful work you did, we are publishing 2274 templates today. This means that as of this moment, quick and slick Instant View pages become available for all Telegram users who share links to articles on those websites.
Some templates will need to be modified due to layout changes on the original website after the contest ended β these will not be rolled out now. If you're the winner on one of these domains, we kindly ask you to resubmit an updated version of the template as soon as possible.
Template Feedback
When your template is live (shows 'version XX is live' in My Templates), users can send you feedback via the @previews bot that allows them to create issues right from Telegram. These issues will show up in the IV interface in the usual way.
When you submit an update, it will be reviewed by a Telegram admin before the current live version is replaced. The system is pretty basic now, but will evolve as time goes by.
Instant View Evolution
Thank you very much for your support, for all your comments and all the issues you've identified and fixed. You did a great job! Thanks to your input, we've learned a lot about the internet and about the tools we're missing to process all the content on its countless websites. We've tried to come up with solutions when possible, adding interfaces and new options during the course of the contest. Working on this felt much like building an airplane in mid-air. But this was just the first step. Now that we have an airplane β it's time to turn it into a spaceship.
In the coming months we're going to:
- Upgrade the IV engine so that it becomes more flexible, more intelligent and gets better support for more kinds of content.
- Refine our IV criteria for more clarity and consistency, and come up with a brand new super-inclusive checklist.
- Announce the next contest on this channel.
Join us!
We couldn't have come this far without you, and now we need your help in figuring out how to make the next Instant View contest the stuff of legends.
All contestants are welcome to join our new public group on Telegram and post their suggestions for the present and future of the IV infrastructure with the tag #IVsuggestion (hint: if you have plenty to say, using Telegra.ph may be a good idea).
Join the discussion here:
https://tg-me.sbs/IVpublic
And congratulations again on completing the first stage of this journey!
Tallying up the final results was no easy task. You've submitted a total of 37,507 templates β and our admins processed 29,482 issues and 402 appeals to find out the winners. This work is now completed and today we're launching Instant View for 2,274 websites! All thanks to you.
The winners
1. Pavel T. and Chuchu shared the first place with 40 winning templates each. The first prize will therefore be split between them, so both Pavel and Chuchu are getting a bonus of $5,000 in addition to the rewards for their templates.
2. Yuri Panarin took the second place with 38 templates and also earns a bonus prize of $5,000.
3. Ο came in third with 35 templates. We decided to award a bronze prize of $2,500 to Ο as recognition for his extended participation in the development of the IV ecosystem by way of thoughtful issue reports and insightful commentary.
You can see the full results of the contest on this page:
https://instantview.telegram.org/contest/top
We will contact everyone who won a prize about their rewards from the verified account +42454 in Telegram. All rewards will be sent out before August 31, 2017.
Publishing templates
Thanks to the wonderful work you did, we are publishing 2274 templates today. This means that as of this moment, quick and slick Instant View pages become available for all Telegram users who share links to articles on those websites.
Some templates will need to be modified due to layout changes on the original website after the contest ended β these will not be rolled out now. If you're the winner on one of these domains, we kindly ask you to resubmit an updated version of the template as soon as possible.
Template Feedback
When your template is live (shows 'version XX is live' in My Templates), users can send you feedback via the @previews bot that allows them to create issues right from Telegram. These issues will show up in the IV interface in the usual way.
When you submit an update, it will be reviewed by a Telegram admin before the current live version is replaced. The system is pretty basic now, but will evolve as time goes by.
Instant View Evolution
Thank you very much for your support, for all your comments and all the issues you've identified and fixed. You did a great job! Thanks to your input, we've learned a lot about the internet and about the tools we're missing to process all the content on its countless websites. We've tried to come up with solutions when possible, adding interfaces and new options during the course of the contest. Working on this felt much like building an airplane in mid-air. But this was just the first step. Now that we have an airplane β it's time to turn it into a spaceship.
In the coming months we're going to:
- Upgrade the IV engine so that it becomes more flexible, more intelligent and gets better support for more kinds of content.
- Refine our IV criteria for more clarity and consistency, and come up with a brand new super-inclusive checklist.
- Announce the next contest on this channel.
Join us!
We couldn't have come this far without you, and now we need your help in figuring out how to make the next Instant View contest the stuff of legends.
All contestants are welcome to join our new public group on Telegram and post their suggestions for the present and future of the IV infrastructure with the tag #IVsuggestion (hint: if you have plenty to say, using Telegra.ph may be a good idea).
Join the discussion here:
https://tg-me.sbs/IVpublic
And congratulations again on completing the first stage of this journey!
Telegram
Instant View Platform Chat
If you would like to share your thoughts, concerns, comments, etc. about the present and future of the Instant View infrastructure, you're welcome to post them here with the tag #IVsuggestion.
Otherwise, be nice and read https://tg-me.sbs/IVpublic/27
Otherwise, be nice and read https://tg-me.sbs/IVpublic/27
Instant View Contest News
The results of the First Instant View Contest are in. Congratulations to the winners and a big thank you to all the participants! Tallying up the final results was no easy task. You've submitted a total of 37,507 templates β and our admins processed 29,482β¦
Instant view contest is over! Congrats to the winners! π
Instant View now available for 2274 websites
https://tg-me.sbs/blog/first-IV-contest
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https://tg-me.sbs/blog/first-IV-contest
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Telegram
Instant View Now Available for 2274 Websites
Today we are launching Instant View for 2,274 more websites thanks to the hard work of our contest winners, who will receive $251,664 as prizes before August, 31.
and more Telegram news:
A new provider has been added to the Bot Payment Platform: CLICK Uzbekistan
https://tg-me.sbs/BotNews/33
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A new provider has been added to the Bot Payment Platform: CLICK Uzbekistan
https://tg-me.sbs/BotNews/33
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Telegram
BotNews
A new provider has been added to the Bot Payment Platform: CLICK.
To connect it to your bot, pay a visit to @BotFather > Edit Bot > Payments and select CLICK Uzbekistan there. Read more about the platform here: https://torg.tg-me.sbs/bots/payments
Theβ¦
To connect it to your bot, pay a visit to @BotFather > Edit Bot > Payments and select CLICK Uzbekistan there. Read more about the platform here: https://torg.tg-me.sbs/bots/payments
Theβ¦
Pavel Durov talking about Instant View:
If Instant View is gradually replacing your web-browser for links, its UI should have features that will allow you to bookmark a page to return to it later (bookmarks, tabs, history). And while 2,277 is already a huge and unprecedented number, eventually weβd like to support many more websites. The end goal is to make almost all the stories that you share on Telegram instantly viewable.
Read more
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If Instant View is gradually replacing your web-browser for links, its UI should have features that will allow you to bookmark a page to return to it later (bookmarks, tabs, history). And while 2,277 is already a huge and unprecedented number, eventually weβd like to support many more websites. The end goal is to make almost all the stories that you share on Telegram instantly viewable.
Read more
βΉοΈ @geeksChannel
Telegram
Pavel Durov
What is Instant View and Why It's Important
A few years ago, Telegram was one of the first messaging apps to generate previews for links shared in messages. Since then, some of our competitors started to do the same, but we at Telegram like to raise theβ¦
A few years ago, Telegram was one of the first messaging apps to generate previews for links shared in messages. Since then, some of our competitors started to do the same, but we at Telegram like to raise theβ¦
It's Telegram's birthday today βοΈ
The iPhone app hit the store exactly four years ago: August 14, 2013.
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The iPhone app hit the store exactly four years ago: August 14, 2013.
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π‘ How old is Telegram?
Telegram for iOS was launched on August 14, 2013. The alpha version of Telegram for Android officially launched on October 20, 2013. More and more Telegram clients appear, built by independent developers using Telegram's open platform.
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Telegram for iOS was launched on August 14, 2013. The alpha version of Telegram for Android officially launched on October 20, 2013. More and more Telegram clients appear, built by independent developers using Telegram's open platform.
βΉοΈ @geeksChannel
Pavel Durov (@durov):
Celebrating Telegram's 4th birthdayπ
β 600,000 new users sign up daily
β 50+% organic annual growth in MAU/DAU π
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Celebrating Telegram's 4th birthdayπ
β 600,000 new users sign up daily
β 50+% organic annual growth in MAU/DAU π
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π€ Bot API v3.3 is coming soon!
β Bots now can mention users via inline mentions, without using usernames.
β getChat now also returns pinned messages in supergroups, if present. Added the new field pinned_message to the Chat object.
β Added the new fields author_signature and forward_signature to the Message object.
β Added the new field is_bot to the User object.
#bots #api
via @tglive
β Bots now can mention users via inline mentions, without using usernames.
β getChat now also returns pinned messages in supergroups, if present. Added the new field pinned_message to the Chat object.
β Added the new fields author_signature and forward_signature to the Message object.
β Added the new field is_bot to the User object.
#bots #api
via @tglive
core.telegram.org
Telegram Bot API
The Bot API is an HTTP-based interface created for developers keen on building bots for Telegram. To learn how to createβ¦
Forwarded from Pavel Durov
New Rules for Alternative Telegram Clients
Among many other things, Telegram is unique in that independent developers can create their own Telegram clients. The source code of all our apps is open, and we provide a 100% open and free API on the server side for anyone to build upon.
This level of openness and transparency is unprecedented for mass market messaging apps, and we are proud to provide it. Thanks to this, hundreds of third-party client apps were created for Telegram, and some of them have now reached tens of millions of downloads.
As the Telegram ecosystem grows, however, a need for consistency and predictability arises. This is particularly important when the privacy of users is concerned. For example, self-destructing media should always get self-destructed in all apps in the ecosystem. Providing a way to keep self-destructing media on the receiving end may be tempting, but this would break the trust and violate the privacy of the users that share them.
This is why earlier this week we updated the Terms of Service of the Telegram API. Not much has changed: our API is as free and open, as always. However, weβve added some new guidelines to the ToS, which are aimed at better protecting the privacy and security of the users, preserving expected behavior across the ecosystem, and also at increasing the transparency of how third-party forks work.
If you are a user or a developer of an alternative Telegram client, please have a look at the updated Terms of Service here β https://torg.tg-me.sbs/api/terms. We hope that these new guidelines will allow third party developers to make their apps more useful and secure than ever.
Among many other things, Telegram is unique in that independent developers can create their own Telegram clients. The source code of all our apps is open, and we provide a 100% open and free API on the server side for anyone to build upon.
This level of openness and transparency is unprecedented for mass market messaging apps, and we are proud to provide it. Thanks to this, hundreds of third-party client apps were created for Telegram, and some of them have now reached tens of millions of downloads.
As the Telegram ecosystem grows, however, a need for consistency and predictability arises. This is particularly important when the privacy of users is concerned. For example, self-destructing media should always get self-destructed in all apps in the ecosystem. Providing a way to keep self-destructing media on the receiving end may be tempting, but this would break the trust and violate the privacy of the users that share them.
This is why earlier this week we updated the Terms of Service of the Telegram API. Not much has changed: our API is as free and open, as always. However, weβve added some new guidelines to the ToS, which are aimed at better protecting the privacy and security of the users, preserving expected behavior across the ecosystem, and also at increasing the transparency of how third-party forks work.
If you are a user or a developer of an alternative Telegram client, please have a look at the updated Terms of Service here β https://torg.tg-me.sbs/api/terms. We hope that these new guidelines will allow third party developers to make their apps more useful and secure than ever.
core.telegram.org
Telegram API Terms of Service
We welcome all developers to use our API and source code to create Telegram-like messaging applications on our platformβ¦
π Pavel Durov announced on his VK page a new contest to find testers of Telegram mobile applications.
A small competition for those who want to join the Telegram team as a remote tester / QA. Age or experience doesn't matter, but you need knowledge of English.
The task is to find and describe three bugs in Telegram for iOS or Android, and also to offer three small but useful innovations for mobile applications.
These three bugs and three innovations should be provided with screenshots / mockups and described in English on one page in telegra.ph (t.me/telegraph). A link to the resulting page should be sent to the bot ContestBot (@ContestBot).
π Deadline: Midnight from 5 to 6 September.
πPrize: An opportunity to work together to improve Telegram. Winners will be contacted on the 8th of September.
#telegram #contest #mobile
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A small competition for those who want to join the Telegram team as a remote tester / QA. Age or experience doesn't matter, but you need knowledge of English.
The task is to find and describe three bugs in Telegram for iOS or Android, and also to offer three small but useful innovations for mobile applications.
These three bugs and three innovations should be provided with screenshots / mockups and described in English on one page in telegra.ph (t.me/telegraph). A link to the resulting page should be sent to the bot ContestBot (@ContestBot).
π Deadline: Midnight from 5 to 6 September.
πPrize: An opportunity to work together to improve Telegram. Winners will be contacted on the 8th of September.
#telegram #contest #mobile
βΉοΈ @geeksChannel
π₯ New beta feature
β Add sticker to favorite
β Favorite stickers section
#feature
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β Add sticker to favorite
β Favorite stickers section
#feature
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π₯ TELEGRAM 4.3 π₯
Better Replies, Stickers & Invitations
1οΈβ£ Replies
Whenever somebody replies to you or mentions you in a group, youβll notice this straight away by the β@β badge in the chats list
2οΈβ£ Favorite Stickers
Anyone with five or more sticker sets can mark individual stickers as βfavoritesβ, and have them always accessible at the top of the sticker panel in the βstarβ section.
3οΈβ£ Stickers of the Group
Large groups with 100 members and more can now choose an official sticker set for all the members of the group to see and use while they're chatting in the group
4οΈβ£ Small but cool improvements
β Twitch videos are now supported in the Telegram in-app player
β Telegram voice call: you can now check the signal strength thanks to the new indicator.
β iOS: you can edit any photo you pasted directly to a chat from clipboard before sending
β Android: when forwarding a message, you can long tap to select multiple recipients.
β Android: when viewing photos in Shared Media, you can go to the place in chat where the photo was posted.
β Android: if you have many new messages in many active chats, synchronization will happen much, much faster.
#update #telegram #mentions #stickers
π More on the official blog
https://tg-me.sbs/blog/replies-mentions-stickers
βΉοΈ @geeksChannel
Better Replies, Stickers & Invitations
1οΈβ£ Replies
Whenever somebody replies to you or mentions you in a group, youβll notice this straight away by the β@β badge in the chats list
2οΈβ£ Favorite Stickers
Anyone with five or more sticker sets can mark individual stickers as βfavoritesβ, and have them always accessible at the top of the sticker panel in the βstarβ section.
3οΈβ£ Stickers of the Group
Large groups with 100 members and more can now choose an official sticker set for all the members of the group to see and use while they're chatting in the group
4οΈβ£ Small but cool improvements
β Twitch videos are now supported in the Telegram in-app player
β Telegram voice call: you can now check the signal strength thanks to the new indicator.
β iOS: you can edit any photo you pasted directly to a chat from clipboard before sending
β Android: when forwarding a message, you can long tap to select multiple recipients.
β Android: when viewing photos in Shared Media, you can go to the place in chat where the photo was posted.
β Android: if you have many new messages in many active chats, synchronization will happen much, much faster.
#update #telegram #mentions #stickers
π More on the official blog
https://tg-me.sbs/blog/replies-mentions-stickers
βΉοΈ @geeksChannel
Telegram
Better Replies, Stickers & Invitations
Telegram 4.3 introduces reply and mention badges, quick access to favorite stickers, new invitations, group stickers, and more.
β³οΈ TELEGRAM | OFFICIAL STICKERS β³οΈ
Telegram released 18 new official stickers pack:
telegram.me/addstickers/KittyMeme
telegram.me/addstickers/MariaDelCarmen
telegram.me/addstickers/OttoMan
telegram.me/addstickers/DragonBoy
telegram.me/addstickers/NeonDemon
telegram.me/addstickers/MrShark
telegram.me/addstickers/MrHedgehog
telegram.me/addstickers/Oliver_the_Frog
telegram.me/addstickers/TheBestDeadpool
telegram.me/addstickers/DevilInYou
telegram.me/addstickers/Catler
telegram.me/addstickers/MrTrader
telegram.me/addstickers/GoFox
telegram.me/addstickers/This_is_Sparta
telegram.me/addstickers/FriendlyDeath
telegram.me/addstickers/Vlad_Len
telegram.me/addstickers/Goosanan
telegram.me/addstickers/BetsyAndFriends
#telegram #stickers #yakovenko
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Telegram released 18 new official stickers pack:
telegram.me/addstickers/KittyMeme
telegram.me/addstickers/MariaDelCarmen
telegram.me/addstickers/OttoMan
telegram.me/addstickers/DragonBoy
telegram.me/addstickers/NeonDemon
telegram.me/addstickers/MrShark
telegram.me/addstickers/MrHedgehog
telegram.me/addstickers/Oliver_the_Frog
telegram.me/addstickers/TheBestDeadpool
telegram.me/addstickers/DevilInYou
telegram.me/addstickers/Catler
telegram.me/addstickers/MrTrader
telegram.me/addstickers/GoFox
telegram.me/addstickers/This_is_Sparta
telegram.me/addstickers/FriendlyDeath
telegram.me/addstickers/Vlad_Len
telegram.me/addstickers/Goosanan
telegram.me/addstickers/BetsyAndFriends
#telegram #stickers #yakovenko
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