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How to create a game bot and publish your HTML5 games on Telegram

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Re: How to create a game bot and publish your HTML5 games on Telegram

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The part on the custom keyboard is interesting. It's Telegram's way of doing FB Messenger's menus. If chats are browsers and bots are web sites and the output in the chat is HTML (and the bot API is what?), I wonder if there will be a standardization effort or if we'll have to deal with a fragmented and incompatible world. Ok, there are cross platform tools but with such a different UI/UX it can't end well. I definitely look forward to a common subset of functionality and API calls.

Or we just wait one or two years. This wave is going to be much faster than the web and the smartphones ones. I guess it will end soon in the usual 90-5-2-1-1-1 distribution, especially if WhatsApp opens to bots with the very same API and UI of Messenger (FB+WA are the #1 chat in more than 80% of the countries.)

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