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Mentions of Telegram Premium Giveaways Functionality on Fragment

@tginfo noticed Telegram Premium giveaways functionality added to Fragment.com's codebase. The change was detected thanks to @tgcrawl's automated analysis. Earlier we've already reported about this feature surfacing in Telegram for macOS localization files.

The Fragment platform is considered to be Telegram's partner, designated to provide an option to buy Telegram's Premium subscription, usernames, and anonymous numbers using TON cryptocurrency. All the services can be paid for using QR codes, which are supposed to be scanned in the Tonkeeper wallet.

Other noteworthy mentions in the code
• Ability to specify the number of subscriptions.
• Ability to specify the number of months — probably for Premium duration.
• There's a possible fee for the giveaway functionality.
• You can find Premium recipients using search.
• The UI has mentions for boosts, but their context is unclear.

It's important to keep in mind that the provided info is a set of assumptions based off the Fragment's code that surfaced, so the functionality may be significantly different on its release. At the moment of writing, the mentioned code was already removed.

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Telegram App Icon competition Deadline today.

• Deadline: 23:59 on October 19th (Dubai time)

• Results: October 26th, 2023

A new image for Telegram for Android (direct version) was found among the portal's files and it shows some of the new UI changes that we could expect in the next updates.

Which may be a hint for Partial Reply or just a new UI for Replies.

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Thanks @Universo_Telegram For these images.

Telegram Is Working On Citations

"The @tginfo editors noticed ongoing work on citations on multiple occasions. This might indicate the feature will appear in future updates.

The Telegram API contains support for quote blocks since 2019, but it never was used in the official apps.

What tells us the feature is being prepared
• Telegram changed the API related to citations, moving it to an unpublished yet Layer 166.
• The Telegram for Android banner from the website shows a screenshot with a different replies UI. In particular, you can see the ❞ icon on one of the messages.

We speculate that in one of the future updates the messenger will provide options to manually create citation blocks in any parts of your messages, reply to the selected part of a message. These features might bring ability to, for example, reply to a message in a different chat by citing it.

Keep in mind that all the info here is a set of speculations and that there was no official announcement for the feature. Thus, the features may change drastically on release"

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Nice looking code blocks with syntax highlight

Eg :

This is some C#

for (int i = 0; i < _path.Count; i += 3)
{
    builder.AddCubicBezier(
        _path[i] * multiplier,
        _path[i + 1] * multiplier,
        _path[i + 2] * multiplier);
}

While this is XAML:

<TextBlock x:Name="ReplyDisabled"
           Text="{CustomResource StoryReplyDisabled}"
           TextAlignment="Center"
           VerticalAlignment="Center"
           Style="{StaticResource InfoBodyTextBlockStyle}"
           Visibility="Collapsed"
           Grid.Column="1"
           Grid.ColumnSpan="2" />