Telegram Adds Stories For Premium Subscribers (9to5mac.com) 10
Telegram is introducing a new Stories feature that is currently only available for Premium subscribers but will be available to all users eventually. 9to5Mac reports: With Telegram Stories, users are able to share photos and videos that disappear after a while. However, Telegram is trying to do more than its competitors. For instance, users can choose whether a Story will expire after 6, 12, 24, or 48 hours. Most apps make Stories disappear after 24 hours. Telegram also lets users create lists with different contacts for each Story. This means that you can share a specific Story with your best friends and another one just for your coworkers. The interface is similar to what you find in other apps that already offer Stories, with a list of available Stories at the top of the list of chats. Also similar to the Stories feature in apps like Instagram and Snapchat, you can send reactions and reply to someone else's Story. However, there's a catch.
While everyone can see Telegram Stories, only those who pay for Telegram Premium can post Stories. "Posting stories is currently available only to subscribers," a message in the app says when non-Premium users try to create a new Story. It's uncertain whether the Stories feature will become free for everyone eventually, but the term "currently" suggests it will. According to Durov, although the Telegram team was initially against the idea of having Stories in the app, the feature was one of the most requested by its users. "Even the skeptics on our team started to appreciate this feature. We can no longer imagine Telegram without it," he said last month.
While everyone can see Telegram Stories, only those who pay for Telegram Premium can post Stories. "Posting stories is currently available only to subscribers," a message in the app says when non-Premium users try to create a new Story. It's uncertain whether the Stories feature will become free for everyone eventually, but the term "currently" suggests it will. According to Durov, although the Telegram team was initially against the idea of having Stories in the app, the feature was one of the most requested by its users. "Even the skeptics on our team started to appreciate this feature. We can no longer imagine Telegram without it," he said last month.
Baffling (Score:5, Interesting)
Am I the only one who doesn't understand the point of these expiring blog posts? Is it just acknowledgement that what you're posting isn't really that important, and if it's more than 2 days old it's not worth reading?
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It is not of the now. It is from the before time, in the long long ago...
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No, I don't get it either. I'm from the time when the big selling point of the internet was that it never forgets, and yet here people are, clamoring for ways to make it forget within mere hours.
Mediums (Score:4, Interesting)
Whatever happened to "The message is the medium."?
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oops. lol.
With its tiny fonts, I'll keep away, thank you! (Score:3)
I just don't understand why Telegram developers won't make its font size customizable...
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They want to discourage us old folks from using it. Everyone knows that the sweet, sweet target demographic of the 14-25 year olds loathe using a medium where their parents hang out.