🎁 Happy Victory Day!

🎁 90 years ago, my grandfather, Semyon Tulyakov, was called up for military service and went through both the Winter and Great Patriotic Wars.

🪖 He was a platoon commander and a lieutenant. Ironically, I received the same ranks 20 years ago at the military department of St. Petersburg State University - but hundreds of times less deservedly.

🎁 My grandfather was awarded the medals “For the Defense of Leningrad”, “For the Victory over Germany”, as well as the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st and 2nd degree and the Order of the Red Star.

🫴 For the 80th anniversary of Victory, Telegram has released three limited edition gifts. Among them is the main symbol of Victory — the red star. Happy holiday!🎁

©️ @durov_russia

📰 New #Telemojis:

🏤 ,🏥, 🏦, 🏨, 🏪

Source : 💌💌💌

💻 Telegram #Desktop: Cheat Codes.

📰 Very few people know, but TDesktop has codes that, when entered, can activate secret functions similar to those in video games.
1. Open the program settings.
2. Enter one of the following:

➧ debugmode — Enable/disable debug logs. All network events will be logged if the mode is enabled
➧ viewlogs — Open the folder where non-debug log is saved to
➧ testupdate — Get a test update (i.e. one that is not even tested to apply correctly) one-time
➧ loadlang — Load custom language file (*.strings)
➧ crashplease — Cause a crash (useful for testing crash reporter)
➧ moderate — Bind keys 1-9 to buttons on bot keyboard. Key q sends command /translate
➧ getdifference — Issue getDifference MTProto command to fetch chat updates (e.g. messages)
➧ loadcolors — Load custom palette file (*.tdesktop-palette)
➧ endpoints — Load custom DC Endpoints file (*.tdesktop-endpoints)
➧ testmode — You will be switched to test cloud1 (works only before any account is added, Shift+Alt+Right Click on Add Account button after that)
➧ folders — Open folders settings
➧ registertg — Force custom scheme register (assign tg:// and tonsite:// URIs to the app)
➧ numberbuttons — Bind keys 1-9 to buttons on bot keyboard according to fast_button_mode_ids.json
➧ msg_incoming — Change the sound when a new message arrives
➧ call_incoming — Change the sound of incoming call
➧ call_outgoing — Change the sound of outgoing call
➧ call_busy — Change the sound of busy call
➧ call_connect — Change the sound of connection call
➧ call_end — Change the sound of end call
➧ sounds_reset — Reset sounds
➧ unpacklog — Decompress crash log
➧ testchatcolors — Test chat theme colors
➧ customicon — Set custom application icon on macOS

#Tip
Wiki: 💌💌💌

📰 The latest new #Telemojis that were demonstrated by Andrey Yakovenko:
🔄🔫🥗🐑🪰🐪🏭🏢🏬🏣🏤🏥🏦🏨🏪🏫🎺🪕🎷🎻⛓️‍💥

📰 New #gifts #upgrades available:
🎁 5000⭐️
🎁 50⭐️
🎁 25⭐️
🎁 25⭐️
🎁 10⭐️
🎁 25⭐️

Special reminder that all gifts can be upgraded for 25000⭐️ from the moment of availability, every hour this price decreases; for savings it is better to wait until 12 hours until reaching 25⭐️.

⚡️ In fact, the new system is more complicated than stated in the blog itself. The thing is that to reach high levels with prestigious privileges, you need to #boosts chats much more. If up to levels 1-8 it's okay, then up to level 9 the coefficient needs to be multiplied by 7, and up to levels 10+ — the coefficient should be multiplied by level number.

The editorial team of @tginfoen figured it out and released a special article, as well as its calculator and table for calculation.

Thanks a lot: 💌💌💌

📰 Two news items about blockages.

1️⃣ Not first wave of casino blocking, but the biggest. ⛔️ @CasinoBot and other casino bots are being blocked, most likely due to their IPO plans, where regulatory issues cannot be tolerated.
Not only one bot was blocked, but also other projects with a million-strong audience, as well as those who bought fragment usernames from them. Previously, Telegram blocked organic traffic, namely specific keywords in search.

2️⃣ The first bot was frozen. Talking about @OBDSPQRHWND_BOT. ❄️ It is logical to understand that bots are also a one-on-one chat. And to appeal the blocking, it seems, the owner needs to contact @BotSupport.
Under this circumstance, the getMyName method returns a 400 "FROZEN_METHOD_INVALID" error, while the getMe method returns results as usual. I assume, based on the source, that this bot is designed to provide app themes.

Sources: 💌💌💌 + 💌💌💌

📰 Telegram launches its first-ever contest for content creators. On @designers channel.
🎨 Quite an interesting competition, because it is aimed at creating a 3-minute short video on the topic of Telegram's superiority over Whatsapp in terms of innovation. This topic explains that WhatsApp began to copy functions from a competitor who was implementing them on its own.
You can also use AI-based tools. And the video must be viral and clearly understandable with full English.

📄 The above files are materials that can be inspired by them.

Anyone can participate, the term is one and a half weeks. Prize = $ 50,000. Results for the next month.

📰 Eyewitnesses write that they are deleting dislikes in the original post. 😁

Fake is likely.

📼 We’ve just launched our first-ever contest for content creators. The goal is simple: create a viral video showing how Telegram has always been years ahead of its cheap copycat — WhatsApp.

We’ve caught WhatsApp running smear PR campaigns against Telegram, so it’s only fair we hit back. No more playing nice — gloves off now 🥊

It’s time to wake WhatsApp users up. They’re trapped in the past, using late, watered-down versions of innovations Telegram pioneered long before.

To help you get started, we’ve included 30 major features that Telegram introduced first — all later cloned by our green rival. Obviously, this list isn’t exhaustive. It doesn’t even cover the many features Telegram users enjoy that still don’t exist on WhatsApp — those would take dozens of slides.

That’s why we’re not worried about WhatsApp trying to catch up with us — we’re too far ahead. Anyway, the $50,000 contest ends May 26 — check it out here.

©️ @durov.