Today August 23rd, Telegram celebrates its 10th birthday – with our biggest update yet. Over the past decade we’ve built hundreds of new features that are now used by over 800 million people. In this update, we launch Stories – with a unique dual camera mode, granular privacy settings, flexible duration options and much more

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I never used stories in Signal and I don’t intend to in Telegram either

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Signal having that shit is so off brand.

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at least you can disable it

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Yea I kinda agree but, it’s very un-intrusive so I’m not bothered

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Stories are annoying, I hope there’s an alternative client that can turn them off.

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I wish it had an option to prevent unknown people sending you messages. I’m getting fed up of the spam from people I don’t know.

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Does it not? I’ve never received a single spam message on telegram in my 6 years of use :S

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  • Adds stories (most annoying feature on a messaging app)
  • Can’t disable it

our biggest update yet

Meh

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I think that it notified all of my contact list when i tried posting a story. Not doing that again. Removed it in shame.

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