> Changes in WhatsApp’s privacy policy had directed users to use Telegram.<p>This is quite ironic.
Telegram managed to sell itself as a more private Whatsapp while in reality it is WAY worse in this area.<p>Amazing and sad.
Voice to Text transcription is worth it in itself. I hate when people send me voice messages: it's slightly less effort for them in exchange for much more annoyance and wasted time for me.
Good!<p>I'd be happy to pay a small amount monthly for the service, its made my life as a furry and event planner much less complex, the ability to be able to quickly spin up a group chat with interested parties makes planning all manner of things easier.
I don't know how the ads model can be sustainable, so far I only get baiting ads about shitcoins. It's great that it is not targeted and text only, I hope it will remain that way but I feel like it won't.<p>I hope they will manage to keep telegram great and not become the next tumblr/myspace whatever, because as a social media platform I actually quite enjoy it: Minimal censorship, seems to attract very diverse kind of people, It is fast and run on everything (like a decade old smartphone on sailfish OS)
I love Telegram. Their desktop client is just a million times better than WhatsApp. Everything business I do with Telegram. Everything personal goes through WhatsApp.<p>Privacy, encryption, tracking etc. I don't care about. All the messengers suck in this perspective..
The moment they shove in tracker stuff, it’s goodbye telegram. Non premium users don’t seem to really get stumped by this at least, but still sad to see after them promising “free forever”.
> Unique Badge and Reactions, Special Stickers and more<p>Yes, finally! That’s the good move to make the company sustainable. Let me pay for esthetic and goodies!
If Telegram was E2EE by default then they have a stream of new subscribers. I am happt pay for it service anyways. Has the best UX/UI. Whats just ended up copying some features...
I simply want to appear offline permanently.<p>And my 'last seen' to be whatever I set it to.<p>Gimme these two and I'll pay $1 per year.
Only just the word "Premium" in the title confirms my (totally unfounded because I didn't read much about nor try it) scepticism towards Telegram.<p>I have an automatic aversion against the principle of two class services where the provider can over time tighten the screws and urge more people towards their premium offer.<p>I'd prefer a service that just has one package an everyone pays the same. It's more transparent and cannot as easily be misused in obscure ways to game more profit out of its customers.