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Telegram - cross platform, secure chat
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 2:49 pm
by guinness
Description: Telegram is like SMS, but more powerful. You can send messages, photos, videos and documents to people who are in your phone contacts (and have Telegram). You can also create groups for up to 200 people.
It's open source, secure and comes with an API that I have been told is fairly simple to utilise.
Link: https://telegram.org/
Re: Telegram
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 3:14 pm
by Midas
Being OSS,
Telegram can even be
sideloaded in an alternative build without the non-free components -- for info, have a look at
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.telegram.messenger/...
So, bye, bye,
Whatsapp and
Viber...
Re: Telegram
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 11:40 pm
by I am Baas
Thanks for posting this, Guinness.
Re: Telegram
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2014 12:53 am
by guinness
I am Baas wrote:Thanks for posting this, Guinness.
No problems. There are still a few issues with connection loss being intermittent, but I can't complain as it's free.
Telegram
Posted: Wed May 20, 2015 12:20 am
by Nh
Telegram - for messaging (like Skype).
Homesite:
https://telegram.org
Download portable version:
https://tdesktop.com/win/portable
(there are versions for Android, iPhone/iPad, WinPhone, PC/Mac/Linux, also web-version).
@Softpedia:
http://softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTW ... ktop.shtml
Interesting post:
http://new.office-watch.com/2015/safely ... aging-apps
Re: Telegram
Posted: Wed May 20, 2015 3:27 am
by I am Baas
Re: Telegram
Posted: Wed May 20, 2015 4:06 am
by Nh
Mea culpa.
Re: Telegram
Posted: Fri May 22, 2015 5:34 pm
by webfork
Nh wrote:Mea culpa.
It's cool. When guiness posted initially, it went into the
Resources subforum probably because it was just inside a web-only tool back then.
Some very interesting stuff packed into this.
Re: Telegram
Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2015 5:07 pm
by webfork
Old thread update:
No massive new features here, but I was pleased to see an active, open project with fairly regular updates:
http://www.softpedia.com/progChangelog/ ... 48423.html
Re: Telegram
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 2:50 am
by guinness
Still seems portable!
Re: Telegram
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 10:51 am
by webfork
Few additional notes from research over this last week:
Re: Telegram
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 10:46 pm
by freakazoid
webfork wrote:It's restricted (even on the web interface) to people who have a phone number they want to share. I found the inability to use any other form of authorization somewhat limiting.
That's one of the reasons why I have shied away from using Telegram. Even though they support a username system, they still require a phone number.
Re: Telegram
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 10:40 am
by Midas
I agree that it would be preferable not to require a phone number; but with smartphones being the next frontier of computing the scramble is on for market share and
Telegram is on that race, too, although it's not by far the biggest contender (see article below). Yet, at least it is still open source...
Re: Telegram
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 1:38 pm
by freakazoid
I would recommend checking out EFF's Secure Messenging rundown:
https://www.eff.org/secure-messaging-scorecard
Re: Telegram
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 2:25 am
by Midas
Thanks for the pointer,
freakzoid, it was not on my radar...
Judging only from it, one is glad to find
Telegram among the best -- amidst
ChatSecure/
Orbot,
CryptoCat,
Pidgin,
Signal/
RedPhone,
Silent Phone/
Text, and
TextSecure.