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I find telegram lacking in two major ways: 1. Can't block annoying posters 2. No functional website For these reasons I avoid it if possible.

wsgeorge 3y ago
> No functional website You surely don't mean web.telegram.com isn't functional?
- attentive 3y ago
  What I meant is t.me site with "channel previews". web.telegram.com redirects to www.usatoday.com You probably meant web.telegram.org which is well hidden and nowhere to be found on their web site so I didn't know about it. Thanks for that. The point on blocking still remains. You wouldn't have solution for that as well? :)
  - lucideer 3y ago
    > web.telegram.com redirects to www.usatoday.com ... why? > The point on blocking still remains That would be a cool feature - they take feature requests at https://bugs.telegram.org/ https://bugs.telegram.org/ - I'm not aware of any competing apps that have it so it's possible noone has requested this before. Seems novel.
    - graynk 3y ago
      > I'm not aware of any competing apps that have it Discord has that, though I wouldn't call it Telegram's competitor
    - attentive 3y ago
      > I'm not aware of any competing apps twitter?
    - boeingUH60 3y ago
      > Why? Telegram.com belongs to Telegram & Gazette, a newspaper owned by Gannett. Gannett also owns USA Today. The Telegram app has always used Telegram.org.
  - graynk 3y ago
    > You probably meant web.telegram.org which is well hidden and nowhere to be found on their web site so I didn't know about it. It's not hidden, it's right there in the list of apps along with everything else: https://telegram.org/apps https://telegram.org/apps > The point on blocking still remains. You wouldn't have solution for that as well? :) Some custom clients allow you to block users in group chats (and also can filter out spam in channels). Depends on your platform though.
    - deleted 3y ago
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    - attentive 3y ago
      Yeah, now that I know it exists I can find it. Yet on the main page where all the telegram client downloads are it's absent: https://telegram.org/ https://telegram.org/ I guess I didn't think I need to search for the web site in the Apps.
      - kotaKat 3y ago
        It's at the bottom of the page in the footer - links to https://telegram.org/dl/web https://telegram.org/dl/web ;)
        attentive 3y ago
        You're correct. I guess this sort of UI didn't work for me. I learned to ignore footnotes for anything useful.
duskwuff 3y ago
> 1. Can't block annoying posters I'm confused. In what context? You can certainly block "annoying" users from chatting with you directly. You can leave channels that you don't like. The only thing I can think of which you can't do is block users in groups you aren't the admin of.
- attentive 3y ago
  correct, in group comments can't block or at least hide users.

wsgeorge 3y ago

> No functional website You surely don't mean web.telegram.com isn't functional?

attentive 3y ago
What I meant is t.me site with "channel previews". web.telegram.com redirects to www.usatoday.com You probably meant web.telegram.org which is well hidden and nowhere to be found on their web site so I didn't know about it. Thanks for that. The point on blocking still remains. You wouldn't have solution for that as well? :)
- lucideer 3y ago
  > web.telegram.com redirects to www.usatoday.com ... why? > The point on blocking still remains That would be a cool feature - they take feature requests at https://bugs.telegram.org/ https://bugs.telegram.org/ - I'm not aware of any competing apps that have it so it's possible noone has requested this before. Seems novel.
  - graynk 3y ago
    > I'm not aware of any competing apps that have it Discord has that, though I wouldn't call it Telegram's competitor
  - attentive 3y ago
    > I'm not aware of any competing apps twitter?
  - boeingUH60 3y ago
    > Why? Telegram.com belongs to Telegram & Gazette, a newspaper owned by Gannett. Gannett also owns USA Today. The Telegram app has always used Telegram.org.
- graynk 3y ago
  > You probably meant web.telegram.org which is well hidden and nowhere to be found on their web site so I didn't know about it. It's not hidden, it's right there in the list of apps along with everything else: https://telegram.org/apps https://telegram.org/apps > The point on blocking still remains. You wouldn't have solution for that as well? :) Some custom clients allow you to block users in group chats (and also can filter out spam in channels). Depends on your platform though.
  - deleted 3y ago
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  - attentive 3y ago
    Yeah, now that I know it exists I can find it. Yet on the main page where all the telegram client downloads are it's absent: https://telegram.org/ https://telegram.org/ I guess I didn't think I need to search for the web site in the Apps.
    - kotaKat 3y ago
      It's at the bottom of the page in the footer - links to https://telegram.org/dl/web https://telegram.org/dl/web ;)
      - attentive 3y ago
        You're correct. I guess this sort of UI didn't work for me. I learned to ignore footnotes for anything useful.

duskwuff 3y ago

> 1. Can't block annoying posters I'm confused. In what context? You can certainly block "annoying" users from chatting with you directly. You can leave channels that you don't like. The only thing I can think of which you can't do is block users in groups you aren't the admin of.

attentive 3y ago
correct, in group comments can't block or at least hide users.