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It's not as if anyone even uses it. It's not even supported in the desktop clients.

by Canada 6y ago

wyuenho 6y ago
Telegram's MAU is 400 mill last checked [0]. On the desktop, you just can't register, so you can't create an auth_key, but that doesn't mean you can't use the Telegram API over a TLS transport, and encrypt messages using the auth_key created on a phone. [0]: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/telegram-statistics/ https://www.businessofapps.com/data/telegram-statistics/
- jlelse 6y ago
  Telegram has more than 500 million active users already. https://t.me/durov/142 https://t.me/durov/142
- Canada 6y ago
  I'm not saying Telegram doesn't have a lot of users, I'm saying that pretty much nobody uses the secret chat feature because it's not supported on all clients and even the clients that do support it can only do 1:1. So it's not very useful.
lloeki 6y ago
> It's not even supported in the desktop clients. Secret chat is supported on the macOS native client (there are two clients, the cross-desktop one is electron-based, the native one is in Swift and shares code with the iOS client.
- Canada 6y ago
  Really? This is the MacOS one version 2.5.1 right? I'm looking and I'm not seeing the option for creating a new secret chat. Is this not the native one? Because the other one had a higher version number and I was running it on Linux for a while.
  - wyuenho 6y ago
    Telegram for macOS is the one that's just called Telegram on the App Store. Current version is 7.3. The cross-platform Electron version of Telegram is called Telegram-lite on the App Store. The secret chat button is hidden behind 3 levels on the macOS native app. You have to click the contact's icon > More > Secret. It's the same deal on iOS.
    - lloeki 6y ago
      It's not hidden at all. On the left pane next to search there's a "New chat" button on both chat list and contact list, where you can select "New group", "New secret chat", "New Channel".
  - lloeki 6y ago
    > 7.3 (211334) Stable I installed it outside of the App Store.
- garaetjjte 6y ago
  >the cross-desktop one is electron-based I don't think so, the one I use on Linux uses Qt.
  - lloeki 6y ago
    Ah, I stand corrected. It used to be back then (very visible webkit process tree), long time since I moved to the Swift one. Here's the various current app details: https://telegram.org/apps#source-code https://telegram.org/apps#source-code

It's not as if anyone even uses it. It's not even supported in the desktop clients.

by Canada 6y ago

It's not as if anyone even uses it. It's not even supported in the desktop clients.

Telegram's MAU is 400 mill last checked [0]. On the desktop, you just can't register, so you can't create an auth_key, but that doesn't mean you can't use the Telegram API over a TLS transport, and encrypt messages using the auth_key created on a phone. [0]: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/telegram-statistics/ https://www.businessofapps.com/data/telegram-statistics/

jlelse 6y ago
Telegram has more than 500 million active users already. https://t.me/durov/142 https://t.me/durov/142
Canada 6y ago
I'm not saying Telegram doesn't have a lot of users, I'm saying that pretty much nobody uses the secret chat feature because it's not supported on all clients and even the clients that do support it can only do 1:1. So it's not very useful.

lloeki 6y ago

> It's not even supported in the desktop clients. Secret chat is supported on the macOS native client (there are two clients, the cross-desktop one is electron-based, the native one is in Swift and shares code with the iOS client.

Canada 6y ago
Really? This is the MacOS one version 2.5.1 right? I'm looking and I'm not seeing the option for creating a new secret chat. Is this not the native one? Because the other one had a higher version number and I was running it on Linux for a while.
- wyuenho 6y ago
  Telegram for macOS is the one that's just called Telegram on the App Store. Current version is 7.3. The cross-platform Electron version of Telegram is called Telegram-lite on the App Store. The secret chat button is hidden behind 3 levels on the macOS native app. You have to click the contact's icon > More > Secret. It's the same deal on iOS.
  - lloeki 6y ago
    It's not hidden at all. On the left pane next to search there's a "New chat" button on both chat list and contact list, where you can select "New group", "New secret chat", "New Channel".
- lloeki 6y ago
  > 7.3 (211334) Stable I installed it outside of the App Store.
garaetjjte 6y ago
>the cross-desktop one is electron-based I don't think so, the one I use on Linux uses Qt.
- lloeki 6y ago
  Ah, I stand corrected. It used to be back then (very visible webkit process tree), long time since I moved to the Swift one. Here's the various current app details: https://telegram.org/apps#source-code https://telegram.org/apps#source-code