Talk:Telegram (software)/Archive 2

The ICO and the company

It's time to put in enough info into the article that the ICO and the non/for-profit status of the company make some sense. The best article I've seen on the ICO is at the NYTimes

• Popper, Nathaniel (March 4, 2018). "Virtual Currency Offerings May Hit a New Peak with Telegram Coin Sale". New York Times. Retrieved April 4, 2018.

Of course I'd like to have more references, but let's not use trade publications like Coin Desk. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 14:16, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

I've removed the claim that the company is a non-profit corporation again. We simply cannot state '''Telegram''' is a [[nonprofit corporation|nonprofit]] as the first 4 words when we know that it is a for-profit company. I've used the SEC Form D that the company filed as a ref, but the Washington Post article would be just as good a ref.

Something similar had been added, which I've removed as well. It's just a PR style restatement of the non-profit claim, straight from the company blog. It is a copyright violation. Quoting from our article, "Unlike other popular messengers, Telegram doesn’t have shareholders or advertisers to report to."

Quoting from the company blog "Unlike other popular apps, Telegram doesn’t have shareholders or advertisers to report to."

Smallbones_(smalltalk) 02:47, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

References

Languages

While the official site's FAQ page only mentions 8 languages - this information is outdated and in fact there are already more languages available. For example, when I open the latest version of Telegram app on my smartphone - I can already see 14 languages available for selection, all of these are listed on this Telegram's page. I'm not sure how to properly handle this fact but I think this information (the fact that Telegram apps already support more languages than listed on official FAQ page) would be pretty helpful for people reading this article, especially since everyone can technically verify it by downloading the app and looking at the "Language" section menu within the app itself.108.30.101.121 (talk) 16:37, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Ban in Russia

Somebody should update the article because Telegram is now officially banned in Russia and there is a pretty interesting backstory about that [1]Also, please, reflect the changes in File:Countries_where_Telegram_is_blocked.svg.

Please ban Russians as I get sex emails from them I thing it's disgusting Sheilafamily (talk) 02:15, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Telegram and TON - should not be here as it is now

TON was never confirmed on any source or social media officially affiliated with Telegram. It should be clearly marked that available information about TON is based on unconfirmed information and therefore cannot be taken as trustworthy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Username4442 (talk • contribs) 16:34, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

they literally submitted the forms to the SEC, so either they're involved or they lied to the SEC - David Gerard (talk) 06:46, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

not the original telegraph/telegram software

This is not the original telegraph/telegram software and the article should reflect that: Worldwide_use_of_telegrams_by_country . It's a confusing/false usage of the name of old technology that's still in existence also as software.

moving criticism to reception section

In most articles in Wikipedia that I have seen, the criticism is not the opening paragraphs but much later in the article. I suggest keeping the same standard here and move the criticism to the reception section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.154.23.74 (talk) 13:26, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

I'm on it. I think I'll move the tech jargon to the appropriate section while I'm at it. The whole intro's a mess. UPD: Just about all of it was already mentioned in the appropriate sections so I moved the sources when that was the case. I also totally forgot to write my changes in the log, is there a way to add those after? Alphavano (talk) 20:04, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

refer to telegram channels

Is it forbidden to refer to a telegram channel? wikifarsi does not allow this kind of referشوپنهاور1 (talk) 07:55, 18 April 2020 (UTC)