Is DC5 having some issues?

This is the status of requests per second to a Telegram bot created by one of our team members. It is evident the DC5 downtime and the fact that it is now recovering.

We received a total of 185 submissions – all of which will be available on contest.com at some point next week. It will be a pleasure to review all of them.

Upon a brief overview, we were pleased to notice several solid works, like @pinkdessign and others similar.

premium bot internal documentation has been leaked

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.

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.

The iDubTG channel, which we have also repeatedly forwarded in this channel, is creating a concept community-rated ranking. Take a look: https://yangx.top/iDubTG/721

some AI-related telegram bots got verified state
@GraphGPTAIBot
@Tech_GPT_Bot
@GPTMain_AI_Bot

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Bot API 7.3

Telegram Business
• Messages sent on behalf of a business account now support url, login_url, and callback_game inline buttons.

Live Locations
• Added support for live locations that can be edited indefinitely.
• Bots can now edit live periods via the new live_period parameter.

General
• Added support for custom emoji in Polls.
• Added the field via_join_request to ChatMemberUpdated, for users whose join request was approved.
• Bots can now detect service messages about background changes in chats via the new chat_background_set field in Message.

• And more, see the full changelog for details:

https://yangx.top/tgcore/bots/api-changelog#may-6-2024

Note: The method getChat now returns the new ChatFullInfo class, which has been split out from Chat.

Smells of changes in Telegram Private Calls
Some time ago we told you about some rumors that came to us about some future telegram features. Talking about Private Calls 3.0, we inform you that there is something brewing.

https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/tgcalls/commit/9effaaac6b3372b12cc183702d839376038cec15

After analyzing this commit in the source code of Telegram Calls Library, we noticed that now the calls can be done also under a proxy, allowing users to bypass things like NAT blocking problems or geolocation bans, this by using customParameters, this also possibly solves the problems of fragmentation of private calls that currently each client uses different versions (eg. TgX, WebK and etc), thanks to the fact that possible server-side changes can be passed via customParameters to enable or disable things, as well as giving a thousand possibilities to the introduction of new features in private calls

We will continue to analyze the situation and update you.
TL;DR: Calls are evolving and becoming more secure and accessibile to all countries.

URGENT Action Required

Dear Bot Developer,

Apple has informed Telegram that @fStikBot is in violation of App Review Guidelines 4.7 and 3.1.1, because it accepts payments for digital goods and services directly from customers without relying on Apple's in-app purchase mechanism.

To ensure that Telegram bots/mini apps such as yours continue operating without interruption on all platforms, we have developed a way for third-party developers on Telegram to accept payments from their customers that is compliant with the App Store and Play Store policies.

To this end, we are rolling out a new in-app currency, Telegram Stars, which users will be able to acquire from Telegram using standard Apple and Google in-app purchases and then use to buy digital goods and services from you. Developers will be able to review their Telegram Stars balance and withdraw them at any time using the TON blockchain.

Starting on June 12, all payments for digital goods and services in bots and mini apps will have to be carried out exclusively in Telegram Stars. Since Telegram has to follow the Guidelines imposed on us by the app stores, failure to comply with these changes will result in the suspension of @fStikBot for most of your customers.

We will publish the full updated API documentation within the next few days, but you can already prepare your bots and mini-apps for the upcoming changes. To accept payments for digital goods and services, you will need to use the sendInvoice or createInvoiceLink methods with the currency field set to "XTR" and the provider_token field left empty.

We expect these changes to positively impact the conversion rate for payments from customers in most markets.

Payments for physical goods and services remain unchanged.

More details will be published on @botnews soon.

The Telegram Team