WebK Channel

📺 Unlimited Live Streams Introducing Live Streams on WebK, featuring the first-ever implementation on Telegram Web. Thanks to Fit Whale's efforts, who worked on them during our recent contest, these Live Streams are now available to all our users. After the initial contest, we've spent dozens of hours on polishing and further refining the app to deliver the best possible live streaming experience in a web browser. We are proud to announce that, after significant adjustments and improvements, we now offer a seamless experience on desktop Chrome and Safari, ensuring stable playback even in unstable network conditions. WebK supports both joining and hosting live streams, which includes managing stream data (with the option to record live stream). That's all for today and there is even more on the way. Stay tuned!

A nasty Chrome issue affecting certain videos has now been fixed – thanks to one of the contestants, you can now watch those corrupted videos in your Chrome browser. 🥹 P.S. Please let us know in the comments below if you still experience the video playback issue.

🏆 Telegram Contest for JavaScript Developers, Round 1 Prize fund: $30,000 Deadline: 23:59 on January 21st (Dubai time) Who can participate: Everyone Results: February 4th, 2024 Telegram is hosting a contest for JavaScript developers to implement Live Streaming into Telegram Web and enhance video playback capabilities in specific browsers. The Task: 1. Implement Live Streaming into Telegram Web K based on the provided mockups. 2. Introduce a workaround for a Chromium bug that prevents certain videos from being played. For an in-depth task description, further details and a bonus task, please refer to this document 👈 Evaluation Criteria and Requirements: General – No third-party UI frameworks are allowed. – The submission must be consistent with the existing Web K codebase. – Your implementation must work flawlessly on desktop Chrome (across Linux, macOS, Windows) and Safari on macOS. Proper support for other browsers and mobile environments (Android, iOS) will be considered a bonus. ❗️Your app must precisely follow the provided design mockups. Entries that fail to do so will be severely penalized. Live Streaming – The most preferable outcome can be achieved by re-using parts of dash.js. However, you may opt for your own approach, provided that the final result is not inferior to the implementation present in Telegram's native apps. Submissions: Contestants will be able to submit their entries to @ContestBot at a later date. We will further clarify the submission instructions closer to the deadline. P.S. Winners may be offered a chance to explore further opportunities with Telegram.

🎄 Happy Holidays, everyone! In this festive season, we're excited to share a brief overview of the new features added to WebK in the last few months. 🎨 Appearance • We've redesigned the chat background gradient, giving the app a fresh new look. • The scrollbar has returned to certain browsers for a more compact appearance. • Deleting messages or switching your app theme from the side panel now have beautiful and energy-efficient animations. Give it a try and see for yourself! 👥 Communities • Channel and Group admins can now access statistics for their communities. To see the detailed data, click➕in the group or channel's profile and select 'Statistics'. • We've also added support for Channel Giveaways, featuring custom prizes and a list of winners. 💬 Chats The app now supports recent updates to messages, including: • Replies 2.0 – you can quote specific parts of any message, making your responses 100% precise. Additionally, replies to a message can be sent privately or to another chat – tapping the quote takes you to the original message. • Adjustable Link Previews – you can change the size of media, choose whether the preview appears above or below your message and select which link to preview if there are several. • Account Colors – added support for displaying account colors and icons, with support for adjusting your own account color coming in early 2024. 📺 Stories Stories have been updated to include all the latest features and enhancements. They now also support viewing story reposts. ⭐️ Premium Premium users now have the ability to manage their emoji status. Simply click on the emoji above your chat list to set one. That's all for today, but there's even more on the horizon. See you in 2024!

We have been working hard to bring you several long-awaited features today – WebK is catching up to the mobile and desktop apps, and will support dozens more features by the end of 2023. 📺 Stories Meet Telegram Stories – heavily optimized for web environments and polished with fluid animations. You can already access almost all story-related features, with several more to come later – like stories for channels and reaction stickers. 👮‍♀️ Admin Features Group and channel admins can now fully manage their communities on the web – with admin lists, permissions and restrictions, invite links and many more. Recent actions and statistics are coming soon, stay tuned! ❤️ Infinite Reactions The reaction panel has been completely redesigned to hold all your emoji packs – like the thousands of custom emoji available with Premium. 🤖 Mini Apps Mini Apps have been around for over a year, and recently received several improvements. Mini Apps can host any kind of service – try ordering some (fictional) food with a sample Mini App. That's all for today, we'll be back with the next update before you know it. 😉 P.S. We also smashed dozens of bugs and glitches for an even smoother WebK experience.

Previously on WebK: 8 preset themes were added, bringing beautiful color combinations to customize your app's appearance. Today's update adds new features to increase your productivity, performance and more. 📁 Shareable Folders Your chat folders can now be shared with friends or colleagues – adding the folder and joining all its chats in one tap. You can create multiple invite links for your folders to give different people access to different chats. 🤖 Powerful Bots Telegram bots can completely replace any website. These bots can now be launched in any chat – try typing @DurgerKingBot (followed by a space) in any chat. ⚡️ Power Saving Mode You can extend battery life and improve performance by turning on Power Saving Mode or individually disabling autoplay, animations or effects in Settings > General > Power Saving Mode. 🆕 and More The app now shows admin titles in chats as well as read time in small groups, and user profiles display which groups you have in common. Right-clicking a user's profile picture in group chats lets you mention them or open a chat with them. Telegram Premium can now be gifted to users via their profile – and voice messages support Premium's Voice-to-Text conversion. Lastly, media received a few improvements – download multiple files simultaneously, use timestamps like 0:15 for audio and video, or pinch to zoom in on media directly from the chat.

Custom Emoji are live on WebK – view only at the moment, making all related "unsupported message" entities gone for you. The Redesigned ESG (aka Emoji • Stickers • GIFs) panel is coming within the next several days.