In February 2021, Pavel Durov announced they're working on monetizing Telegram channels. Currently, the advertising platform is undergoing several changes. Considering these developments, do you believe we will witness the implementation of monetization this year? I'm eager to hear your thoughts.

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🏆 Telegram Contest for JavaScript Developers, Round 1

Prize fund: $30,000
Deadline: 23:59 on January 21st (Dubai time)
Who can participate: Everyone
Results: February 4th, 2024

Telegram is hosting a contest for JavaScript developers to implement Live Streaming into Telegram Web and enhance video playback capabilities in specific browsers.

The Task:
1. Implement Live Streaming into Telegram Web K based on the provided mockups.
2. Introduce a workaround for a Chromium bug that prevents certain videos from being played.

For an in-depth task description, further details and a bonus task, please refer to this document 👈

Evaluation Criteria and Requirements:
General
– No third-party UI frameworks are allowed.
– The submission must be consistent with the existing Web K codebase.
– Your implementation must work flawlessly on desktop Chrome (across Linux, macOS, Windows) and Safari on macOS. Proper support for other browsers and mobile environments (Android, iOS) will be considered a bonus.

❗️Your app must precisely follow the provided design mockups. Entries that fail to do so will be severely penalized.

Live Streaming
– The most preferable outcome can be achieved by re-using parts of dash.js. However, you may opt for your own approach, provided that the final result is not inferior to the implementation present in Telegram's native apps.

Submissions:
Contestants will be able to submit their entries to @ContestBot at a later date. We will further clarify the submission instructions closer to the deadline.

P.S. Winners may be offered a chance to explore further opportunities with Telegram.

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Create an illustration using neural networks in the style of Ohuenko.

• Prize fund: 1000 $ or TON (at the exchange rate on the day of transfer)

• Deadline: Until 20 January 2024

Task :
A man in a black hoodie with the hood up emerges from a DeLorean (Model from Back To The Future, Part II) in the middle of a dense jungle with destroyed skyscrapers. The area is inhabited by blue translucent holograms of dinosaurs.

Criteria and Requirements :
You need to use no more than two neural networks (even better, just one). The entire process must have step-by-step instructions to repeat the result. Particular attention to the quality of the contour and its coloring. The picture format is 1600x1050, or proportionally larger.

Send your works in the comments, Ohuenko’s channel.

Thanks : @Trust_mafia

Note : 📖Translated post

▶️Pause & Resume Voice Messages

A new feature can be seen in the last video, showcasing the ability to pause the recording of a voice message & resume the recording after.

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👋 One-Time Video Messages

A new feature can be seen in the last video, showcasing the ability to send a video message that can be viewed only once, after which it will self-destruct.

🎙One-Time Voice Messages

A new feature can be seen in the last video, showcasing the ability to send voice messages that can be listened to only once, after which they self-destruct.

Profile Colors in Calls 🖼

Telegram Team added profile Colors in Calls from suggestion.

A smart suggestion, which we instantly implemented. We sent 2000 euro to the creator of this submission to appreciate his great work 😌

– Pavel Durov

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Telegram Android Beta

◾️Version: 10.6.0
◾️Build: 42609

Changes:

• Pause & Resume Voice Messages 🆕
• Pause & Resume Video Messages 🆕
• One-Time Video Messages 🆕
• One-Time Voice Messages

New icons

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@NewsAndTipsNT 📰

❤Telegram Android Beta
◾️Version: 10.6.0
◾️Build: 42639

What's New:

• Pause & Resume Voice Messages 🆕
• Pause & Resume Video Messages 🆕
• One-Time Video Messages 🆕
• One-Time Voice Messages

• Fix sending full minute round video from sd card devices
• Raise to speak pause fixes
• Fix notification on subscribing on a channel from another client

🔄Previous Version