Telegram really deserves more attention than it gets. It has the largest feature set, best multi-platform support with true desktop clients, awesome/fast mobile apps and a large part of the code is open source. What's not to love? Just that none of my friends use it :/
Telegram Middleman Bot – Push Notifications as easy as POST
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Re: Telegram Middleman Bot – Push Notifications as easy as POST
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
The cut off seems to be a million messages, seems like enough to me
I've seen my father manually clear all his whatsapp chats at the end of the week. 1 million is definitely enough for everyone but somebody who's not using telegram for chat.
As far as I understand it you can't scroll back further than a million, so if you were using this for notifications, you wouldn't be able to see what your n-1,000,000th notification was. I could be misinterpreting, but if I'm right I still don't see it as much of a problem.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd be interested in that project, can you show it?
I haven't made it. I've just started thinking about what I'd need to get it done. I'm a systems dev not an Android app person. I want to make a thing that will forward my SMSs to a webpage so I can read them online and I want to be able to start conversation, reply to conversations, etc. I want it to be open source and free. I'm not really interested in making it, I just want it.
look at Pushbullet, as a browser extension.
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#14Telegram really deserves more attention than it gets. It has the largest feature set, best multi-platform support with true desktop clients, awesome/fast mobile apps and a large part of the code is open source. What's not to love? Just that none of my friends use it :/
And while I know we are an endangered species, I have to say their support for Windows 10 mobile is top notch. I find their app is better than Whatsapp.
Too bad the network effect is a thing, and also their approach to crypto might put you off.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I haven't made it. I've just started thinking about what I'd need to get it done. I'm a systems dev not an Android app person. I want to make a thing that will forward my SMSs to a webpage so I can read them online and I want to be able to start conversation, reply to conversations, etc. I want it to be open source and free. I'm not really interested in making it, I just want it.
look at Pushbullet, as a browser extension.
This is not self hosted, open source, nor free.
Re: Telegram Middleman Bot – Push Notifications as easy as POST
#16I have not looked at this in detail, but I can't see what advantages this has over just sending a simple http request like this: https://api.telegram.com/botTOKEN/sendMessage?id=YOUR_ID&message="your servers are on fire" because that's all you need as far as I know. Works via GET, POST, PUT, everything. Only thing I could see is being able to switch it out for other services easier.
You're right, but you'd need your own specific Telegram-internal user id so that your message will only be routed to your specific chat. With my little piece of code, n people can register at 1 bot. Without it you would either have to figure out your user id first or have n separate bots for n people. Of course, the advantage is not too dramatic ;-) And yes, the ability to link the bot to further services than only T…
You can get your own (or group's) chat ID with @get_id_bot, if you don't want to just get it yourself via `getUpdates`.
Re: Telegram Middleman Bot – Push Notifications as easy as POST
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd be interested in that project, can you show it?
I haven't made it. I've just started thinking about what I'd need to get it done. I'm a systems dev not an Android app person. I want to make a thing that will forward my SMSs to a webpage so I can read them online and I want to be able to start conversation, reply to conversations, etc. I want it to be open source and free. I'm not really interested in making it, I just want it.
IFTTT can do this for you without programming work. Requires your phone because texting requires money.
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#18Telegram really deserves more attention than it gets. It has the largest feature set, best multi-platform support with true desktop clients, awesome/fast mobile apps and a large part of the code is open source. What's not to love? Just that none of my friends use it :/
And while I know we are an endangered species, I have to say their support for Windows 10 mobile is top notch. I find their app is better than Whatsapp. Too bad the network effect is a thing, and also their approach to crypto might put you off.
> approach to crypto might put you off
It doesn't, anymore than whatsapp. Whatsapp says they have end-end encryption. Has anyone verified it independently? They say they use Signal's tech. Has anybody verified that the app doesn't just take screenshots of the screen and send them to facebook for data mining? When your app is closed source, all claims about security and encryption are meaningless, unless some solid auditing is done.
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#19so...zapier?
Re: Telegram Middleman Bot – Push Notifications as easy as POST
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
And while I know we are an endangered species, I have to say their support for Windows 10 mobile is top notch. I find their app is better than Whatsapp. Too bad the network effect is a thing, and also their approach to crypto might put you off.
> approach to crypto might put you off It doesn't, anymore than whatsapp. Whatsapp says they have end-end encryption. Has anyone verified it independently? They say they use Signal's tech. Has anybody verified that the app doesn't just take screenshots of the screen and send them to facebook for data mining? When your app is closed source, all claims about security and encryption are meaningless, unless some solid au…
As much as I am a fan of Telegram[0] I still have to admit that I guess the WhatsApp crypto is better.
[0]: my threat model sees Facebook and snooping kids as a bigger risk to me than NSA or FSB. It also says that if those guys come after me I've lost anyway.