Telegram Web A Digest

Many new features and useful optimizations have been added in recent months. Here is a brief overview of what's been happening in Web A since August.

September – November

✏️ General
• Reply Revolution – the app learned to quote specific parts of any message, making your responses 100% precise.
• Also, Quote Formatting have arrived.

📣 Channels
• Channels added boosts and giveaways.
• Users also got an option to reassign their boosts between channels.

🌄 Stories
• Numerous improvements have been made to the animations flow, ensuring the stories bar expands more smoothly. Additionally, a package of optimizations has been added to enhance the performance of stories on mobile devices.
• Stories have been introduced for channels, and the story viewer has been updated with new gestures to expand and reply.

⚙️ Settings
• The app has added an option, 'Who can find me by phone number,' along with a setting under 'Privacy and Security' to manage the visibility of your bio.

✨ Extra
• Some further improvements have been made to the Mini Apps area.
• New security notifications have been added to the chat list to alert you when your account is logged into from a new device.
• New design for code blocks formatting.

December – February

✏️ General
• Saved Messages 2.0 – including tags, My Notes, Replies and forwards from hidden authors.
• One-Time Voice Messages including both listening and recording. Added support for viewing One-Time Video Messages.
• Read-Time in Private Chats
• You can now replace media when editing messages.
• The app learned to preserve the selected mode for topics in groups.
• Whenever you create a small group, Web A suggests a name for it based on users' name you have added.

📣 Channels
• Added custom channel reactions.
• Implemented channel stories stats.
• Channel emoji statuses.
• Similar Channels.

👥 Groups
• 9 new features for groups.

🤖 Bots
• Edit your bots info right from their profile.

🌄 Stories
• Added support for forwarded stories and channel posts in stories.

✨ Extra
• Giveaway Improvements: displaying winners list and additional prizes.

March

📣 Channels
• Admins will soon be able to launch giveaways in their channels.

✨ Extra
• Added support for Emoji v15.1.
• Some design enhancements for shared contacts, links preview and more.