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Telegram crosses 500 million monthly active users; some 25 million joined in last 72 hours (indianexpress.com)
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Telegram adds voice chats (telegram.org)
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Telegram is going to start to monetize and attempt to generate profit to finance itself by introducing premium features, creating it's own advertisement platform for public channels | Durov's channel (t.me)
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Telegram released the source code of their http API for bots (github.com)
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Telegram 7.2: pinned messages 2.0, improved live locations, playlists (telegram.org)
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Telegram 7.1: search filters, anonymous admins, channel comments and more (telegram.org)
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Telegram 7.0: Video Calls and Seven Years of Telegram (telegram.org)
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Highlights of the blogpost:

  • Telegram 7.0 is not yet available for iOS, as Apple failed to review the update in time for Telegram's 7th birthday (Telegram could have just waited a bit more tbh)
  • for clients supporting the latest API layer available (layer 118), calls and video calls will use the new WebRTC-based VoIP library instead of libtgvoip (which is still embedded in the apps because of backward compatibility)
  • video calls are e2e encrypted, of course

Small curiosity: the 3^rd^ round of the voip contest ended on April 8^th^. This day probably marked the beginning of the works on the new VoIP library by whoever they hired - even though some people were already working on it. Regardless, it took ridiculously little time to bring it to production on all the official apps. I guess they skipped QA entirely lol

Small curiosity #2: screen sharing is also planned and will be released within 2020

Bonus: for its 7^th^ birthday, Telegram tweeted this nice video with an overview of all its cool features (relevant though I give them a pass as it's not trying to be some relatable twitter corp crap)

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Telegram Messenger Introduces 2GB File Sharing, Mini Thumbnails, and Auto-Night Mode (www.debugpoint.com)
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New maximum file size: 1.95 GiB (t.me)
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🔥 Telegram File NEW Limit Size
= 2000 * 1024 * 1024 Bytes
= 2,097,152,000 Bytes
= 2,048,000 KiB
= 2,000 MiB
= 1.95 GiB