>Telegram was available for desktops and laptops since 2013. Today it finally graduates to version 1.0 with a fabulous new design.
>Consistent material design, great animations, and support for custom themes make Telegram for Windows, Mac, and Linux the tool for messaging from your Mac or PC.
>If you're looking for an alternative design, Telegram Desktop also supports customized themes. Anyone can make a theme for Telegram Desktop. This theme, for example, changes green outgoing messages to blue:
I haven't used an IM client in years. Do people still chat with each other like that?
Landon Fisher
lol
Jason Williams
I use whatsapp and telegram everyday. How do you speak to other people? Fax machines?
William Ross
its not really relevant that the desktop doesn't have secret chats implemented, since secret chats doesn't use the cloud and so the device must be connected continuously, with in a computer could not be its not a priority feature for me in the desktop, i prefer the release of the source code of the servers and the descentralization of the servers, i like the idea to start making telegram a standart of communication like the blog post says at the end, stopping the usage of emails, which are not needed anymore since the telegram urls exists
Cameron Adams
Isn't that what terrists use?
Jacob Brown
It's called privacy you popo
Nolan Lopez
>material design
Christian Bell
Yeah yeah whatever you say, auchri
Dominic Wilson
>not using terrorgram
Ayden Gonzalez
Looks like Skype.
Dominic Martin
>privacy >messages stored in le cloud in plaintext Telegram not even once
Austin Garcia
nice try ISIS!
kek'd
I stay the fuck away from privacy tech. I plan on working in the gov and don't wanna get on any of these terrist no-fly, no-job lists.
Oliver Evans
XMPP + OMEMO can do E2E with PFS, offline messages, and synchronization between devices.
Asher Gray
I just text them
Brayden Roberts
since when did colorful and pretty become non-gay?
Brandon Johnson
>I haven't used an IM client in years.
get a friend
Ethan Bell
is it the kind of application written in javascript and html that runs inside a layout engine and consumes 200mb of ram? if yes then kill yourself op
Landon Ward
OK cool, how many texts you send a day?
Bentley Torres
modern '"""""""""""""apps"""""""""""""""
Noah Long
I'm sure it's based on messenger for desktop like discord is. It looks identical to fb messenger.
Henry Brooks
>I plan on working in the gov
lol
Aiden White
It's actually written in Qt/C++. Get learned friendo
Jaxson Sullivan
that's nice I would consider using it
Xavier Howard
>colorful and pretty
Have you seen the new custom themes for Telegram desktop?
You can do whatever you want now.
Bentley Torres
I'll stick with wire the patricians choice.
Jason Roberts
So it is like LINE and Hangouts except no one uses it?
Jackson Hall
Telegram is used more than LINE.
Hangouts is pure botnet.
Aiden Collins
>Telegram is used more than LINE.
Line has twice as many users. 218 mil v 100 mil.
Mason Sanchez
Trumpinator?
Chase Murphy
>Facebook is botnet >Hangouts is botnet >Telegram doesn't support VOIP >Signal doesn't have an autonomous desktop client >Whatsapp doesn't have an autonomous desktop client and it's a botnet
Why is there no good IM client, guys?
Jace Parker
because normies will never use non-botnet shit
Elijah Baker
Wire. Or ring, if you're into distributed servers.
Adrian Morgan
I only use it for the furry porn stickers.
Logan Howard
fag
Jayden Jenkins
No VOIP No Video Calls No Voice Call No Draw blank Nope
Logan Stewart
An IM client without a user base is worthless.
Why would I use this if the 300 people that I have on Skype will remain on Skype?
Don't get me wrong, I despise Skype and wish everyone would migrate but as it stands right now there's no incentive and I would just have it installed because it looks pretty.
Blake Baker
This is for people who aren't locked in like you and your gay friends.
Oliver Lewis
GOGOGOGOGO
Q: Can I make calls or video calls via Telegram? We may enable voice calls if we see significant demand in the future. The technology necessary for encrypted calls has indeed been created in our R&D dungeons.
Jack Thomas
I hope so, it's really stupid to have it as a browser extension
Christian Reed
you better not be trollin
Hudson Brown
tfw when you realize they stole the design from whatsapp.
Lucas Cox
design? what design? there really isn't much there to speak of. it's just the default "modern" look a programmer would come up with.
Oliver Russell
Are you retarded or is this bait?
Ryan Nelson
since fucking someone of the same sex became the only requirement for something to be considered gay
Jackson Campbell
shit wrong person, here's your (You)
Jason Gomez
>tfw when you realize they stole the design from whatsapp. looks nothing like whatsapp even with this whatsapp theme
Jordan Evans
and they stole the design from the android sms client. And they stole the design from... There is two designs you can use: name1: message a. name2: longer message as a reply.
message a. longer message as a reply.
The last one is easier to get a quick overview, but only works for two people. The other one works for any number of people talking together. You could also introduce a bunch of colors and keep the second design, but there is not a lot of ways you can design an IM client.
Nicholas Martin
Me too :happypanda:
Oliver Ross
I would really like to start using it but the message balloons straight from mobile devices make it shit for very long conversations.
Liam Miller
Terrorists and furries.
Blake Wright
>telegram
Just fucking kill yourself or get with the program and either use tox or GPG. And Signal if you want to chat with normie friends.
James Howard
It's too late to find people that aren't "locked in" and also the reason it will fail.
Anthony Davis
I used it and it's great but.. >no video and audio calls
Brody Diaz
which no one ever implemented in a major software.
I wonder why.
Just updated, fucking awesome. 10/10
Zachary Moore
Too bad I already moved to Riot/Matrix
Jeremiah Sanchez
>Telegram Sigh. Pic related. Pavel Durov isn't taking it seriously and is calling the allegations fake.
They're not. It's referring to the MITM hole he's never fixed since it was reported.
Fuck Telegram. They don't give a shit about security. Great marketing and UI, though.
>secret chats and multi-device synchronisation That wouldn't have been any problem if Telegram had been properly designed like Signal/Axolotl, Olm, the new OMEMO, etc.
Unfortunately MTProto was apparently designed by pure math PhDs, instead of cryptographers. That doesn't go even halfway to explaining how fucked up it is.
>Why doesn't Signal have a good desktop app like this? I'm not sure I'd call this a good desktop app, but you have a fair point here, and one I've raised with Moxie myself: using a Google Chrome extension (which is end-of-life) for a desktop messenger is incredibly silly, and obviously a desktop OS doesn't need to use GCM to wakelock reliably from Doze like Android does.
Wire is usable, even though it's JS/Electron. I think Signal might be trying something similar. It's still not exactly perfect but it's a step.
Oliver Edwards
Is it open source? Can I run a server on my own hardware?
If the answer to either of these questions is no then I'll just stick with IRC.
Angel Perry
that looks like shit
Hunter Fisher
Does Telegram's security still sucks ass? It did last time I checked.
Blake Peterson
>it looks like the best IM client for all platforms >Consistent material design
Better luck next time.
Dominic Lee
Ty for notice. @themes in Desktop client if anyone else interested
Blake Stewart
M A T R I X I O T
Christopher Smith
This is my main issue with the desktop client.
This is pretty nice.
Nathaniel Sanders
It can't make calls or send sms, not gonna use it.
Parker Carter
>Is it open source? Yes >Can I run a server on my own hardware? Yes >Can I continue chatting with my irc/jabber friends using this app Yes >Can I write my own bot/script for room management Yes >Can I... Yes. There's literally no excuse for you not to switch to matrix right now and forget about everything else.
Tyler Kelly
Too much material design. It looks like they copy pasted straight from Google. They could at least try and be original
Jason Mitchell
Kik and Facebook Messager are what Normies use these days. It's less clunky and has more features than texting, and data is cheaper than texts in most places.
Brandon Williams
>wire >not signal
>:-)
Anthony Harris
>tfw telegram is also botnet
Jason Scott
>give a fuck about smarthphones We should use i2p bote