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✨✨ Being mindful about what kind of information we consume is just as important for our wellbeing as what food we eat. Words may shape our reality in more ways than we think. That’s why I never watch horror movies and instead prefer films showing uplifting success stories (“Wonka” was my favorite last year). Popular songs, replayed many times, can work like magical spells that plant suggestions in our brains, so I carefully select my playlist to make sure their lyrics don’t include undesirable scenarios. I like to start my day with mid-20th century songs that express joy, such as “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning” or “What a Wonderful World” 💫🦄 Telegram, unlike other apps, doesn’t throw random content at its users — people receive only the news from channels they have joined, and they can unsubscribe any time. This architecture helps us remain an independent platform that doesn’t promote any narrative and instead gives people the full power to choose what they like to see in their feed ✊💪

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@NewsAndTipsNT 📰 ✈️Telegram Desktop 💻 ◾️ Version: 5.0 What's New: • Choose custom font family in Settings > Chat settings > Font family. • Show "Frequent contacts" when you focus the search field. • Show "Recent chats" when you focus the search field. • Show "Channels" list and similar channels. • Premium users can use animated emoji in polls. • Group admins can mass-moderate many messages. • Fix frequent crashes on some Linux systems. • Instant view ( Available) Download⬇️: Official website 🌐 or GitHub🐱 🔄Previous Version Thanks : 💌💌💌

🇺🇦Interestingly, most people voted for Ukrainian to be the subject of my new post. So here you go — below is everything you wanted to know about the relationship of the Telegram CEO with the Ukrainian language (but were afraid to ask 🤫). As my mom’s family comes from Ukraine, I was curious about this language since my teenage years. As a linguist by education, I was also fascinated by the differences and similarities between Ukrainian and Russian. That’s why in 2008, Ukrainian was the first language we translated the interface of VK (my previous large project) into. Back then, most of the websites popular in Ukraine were still in Russian, but I wanted to give our millions of users from Ukraine the freedom to customize their experience. To do this, I had to rewrite most of VK’s code, replacing hardcoded Russian phrases with variables that we then translated into Ukrainian with the help of volunteers. We were happy with the result: this launch announcement, which is recorded in the Web Archive, will make many people feel nostalgic — https://web.archive.org/web/20120104053631/http://vkontakte.ru/blog?id=70 🥲 For the next few months, I was exclusively using the Ukrainian version of VK to make sure I hadn’t missed any Russian words still hardcoded in VK’s code. I inevitably learnt some Ukrainian as a result. I also wanted VK to be the first popular website in Ukraine to introduce correct case endings for names in Ukrainian (in English, “Paul” in “Photos with Paul” and “About Paul” doesn’t change, but in Slavic languages like Ukrainian “Paul” in these phrases should have different endings depending on the case). As the one who was implementing the support for this part of Ukrainian grammar in VK’s code, I was able to learn its rules in the process. Soon after we launched the Ukrainian version of VK in 2008, I went to Kyiv to celebrate. I was fascinated by how some words sounded in Ukrainian and would take photos with random notices in the background. People in Kyiv were very welcoming, so over the years I would come back to make new friends who would then teach me new words and fun expressions. To keep practicing after 2022, I started completing Ukrainian lessons in the DuoLingo app. Using my DurovLingo account there, I scored 5403 experience points in Ukrainian. Currently, when browsing Telegram channels, I understand about 95% of written and 85% of spoken Ukrainian. Sometimes I have to ask one of the Telegram engineers from Ukraine to educate me on the nuances of meaning. Overall, learning Ukrainian helped me better understand other Slavic languages: for example, my comprehension of Polish and Czech increased noticeably as a side effect. Most importantly, being able to read Ukrainian without translation allows me to make sure Telegram’s moderation processes are fair to all sides and inaccurate translation doesn’t influence any decisions in difficult cases that get escalated to the CEO level. While Ukraine accounts for less than 3% of Telegram’s global audience, more than 70% of Ukrainians use Telegram for messaging and news, and we’re seeing more and more content in Ukrainian being published. I hope that knowing Ukrainian — and foreign languages in general — makes me more competent as a leader of a neutral platform where rules are applied equally to all sides. We strive to be a place where everyone is treated fairly regardless of their origin and where ideas can compete freely regardless of their language 🕊

🏆 Tonkeeper Contest iOS & Android Prize fund: $ 100 000 Deadline: May 29, 2024 Results: June 10, 2024 Subscribe for updates: @tonkeeper_news Tonkeeper is a leading non-custodial TON wallet with innovations such as TON Connect for secure connection to thousands of dapps, next-generation wallet standard W5 and Tonkeeper Battery for gasless transactions. Our team builds the largest developer platform on TON — TonAPI, used every day by over 80% of projects in TON. Tonkeeper is the biggest non-custodial wallet in TON with over 2,300,000 active monthly users on 8 platforms. Today we are excited to launch a contest for iOS and Android developers, with a prize fund of over 20 000 TON (≈ $100 000). Fully-native Tonkeeper X will be faster and better in all dimensions. The goal of this contest is to add three missing features. Rules 1. Top 10 developers receive prizes for each feature they implement. Features rated independently. 2. Top 3 developers receive extra-large prizes 🤑. 3. ✨A special bonus✨ for developers who provide all three features in one submission. 4. The finalists of this contest will be invited to join Tonkeeper team ❤️. 5. Submission deadline is May 29. 6. Results will be announced by June 10. Features 1. Stake: stake TONs and earn rewards through staking pools. 2. Swap: native interface for seamless asset swaps. 3. Buy & Sell: trade TON, USDT and fiat through partner platforms. 👉 Figma designs for all features Requirements 1. Swift and Kotlin on respective platforms (iOS and Android). 2. Use TonAPI.io for access to the blockchain data. 3. We expect meticulous attention to detail, smooth animations, lack of glitches or bugs. 4. Submit your pull request: iOS, Android (include build instructions if needed) Questions? 💬 Join Tonkeeper Contest group to chat with our developers (English only pls). Reference code: react-native app, tonkeeper web. We can’t wait to see how your talents unfold in this challenge. Good luck! 🚀

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While reviewing our design contest submissions, I was inspired by a message effects project. So we reused our reactions UI and animated emoji effects to put together this video demo. Set 🫡 if you want this implemented.