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Re: 700M users and Premium

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

BoumTAC wrote: post #7
bathory wrote: post #2

Looking at the in-app purchase on iOS in Europe, the price seems to be about EUR 5.50 which I find to be quite steep, for these kinds of features. I've been wanting to support TG's development for a while now, but I would have hoped that this would be more in the vicinity of 1-3 Euros per month.

I think that's the main issue with those small subscriptions. We don't have an American salary here. I would happily pay for Telegram premium for 2-3€/month and have only a third of the features they propose. But 5-10€ for every service like this becomes expensive at the end of the month. I have the same issue with hey.com email provider, but they are too expensive too. I would love to have an email service provider…

Some services have a yearly plan where you end up paying the equivalent to about 4€ a month - protonmail is an example that comes to mind.

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Post by scrollaway »

Telegram blows my mind.

Say what you want about their security; they have the absolute best UX of any (primarily 1-on-1) messaging app, bar none.

Discord is a close second. But the quality and polish of telegram blows me away to this day.

And it’s lots of small features and details such as built in translation for messages in a foreign language, all the smooth animations, quick look and summaries of channels with aggregated links media etc, a super fast and responsive UI etc. And their stickers are actually ridiculously fun to play with (I used to not be into that, telegram converted me).

Just yesterday I accidentally found out that it’s possible to replace a picture you have sent, with a new or different one - I sent a photo, realised it would have been better cropped, and just edited the message as I normally would have.

And with all that it’s the only popular messenger that is actually easy to programmatically interact with. (And cheap! WhatsApp has a business offering and it’s ridiculously expensive)

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Post by kome »

neals wrote: post #10

So who here is using Telegram and for what? I'm consider myself pretty well connected, but I don't have the app. Tell me what I'm missing.

It's the only messenger I use; I guess it depends from your social circle and/or geographical location.

I am very happy with it btw; much better than whatsapp.

Re: 700M users and Premium

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Post by f311a »

neals wrote: post #10

So who here is using Telegram and for what? I'm consider myself pretty well connected, but I don't have the app. Tell me what I'm missing.

It's very popular is some (usually heavy censored) countries. It's also popular in the IT field.

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Post by aksgoel »

Angostura wrote: post #13
neals wrote: post #10

So who here is using Telegram and for what? I'm consider myself pretty well connected, but I don't have the app. Tell me what I'm missing.

It's WhatsApp for people who don't trust Meta/Facebook.

Interestingly, Telegram by default is not even end to end encrypted.

Re: 700M users and Premium

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Post by sva_ »

neals wrote: post #10

So who here is using Telegram and for what? I'm consider myself pretty well connected, but I don't have the app. Tell me what I'm missing.

Many university group chats are in it, for some reason.
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