🎄 Happy New Year to everyone! WebK launched its first update of 2023, adding a pack of feaures you can now enjoy on Web!
📚 Topics 2.0 Admins of any group can enable Topics, creating separate spaces within the group to discuss different subjects – with a sleek two-column layout to easily navigate chats.
😶🌫️ Hidden Media Media hidden with a shimmering spoiler effect is properly displayed in the app – just tap or click to view the image. The next WebK update will allow you to send media with this spoiler effect.
🏴☠️ No-SIM Signup and Login Users who have an anonymous number from Fragment can login to their existing account or create a new account with the number.
🔤 Collectible Usernames
Owners of collectible usernames can now assign collectibles to their personal account, groups or channels – and manage them within the app.
Lastly, the app also preserves your history stack – if you follow a t.me link to another message in a chat, you can return to the first message with the 🔽 button.
Today, WebK introduces a redesigned Emoji and Sticker Panel – try the collapsible section for default emoji categories and the scrollable bar for your custom emoji sets.
The new Panel features a beautiful blur effect on most desktop browsers and allows you to send or edit messages containing custom emoji. (All users can try out this feature in their Saved Messages)
In the Stickers tab, you can now add or remove stickers from favorites, send without sound or individually delete them from the Recents section.
Preview Stickers and Emoji You can now get a closer look at stickers and emoji, both in the panel and in chats. Click and hold, then hover your cursor over the one you'd like to see in better detail.
Stickers are now rendered more efficiently, using fewer resources and saving battery. Custom Emoji have also had more improvements since their launch in late August.
Downloading Files The download flow has been reworked from scratch. When you download something, the app uses your connection in the most efficient way possible. Premium users will notice how dramatically fast the app downloads files for them – a little demo is available here.
Large files of up to 4 GB are now supported for both upload and download. There is also support for native downloading in certain browsers – your browser will place active downloads on the instrument bar.
Payments 2.0 Significant optimizations were added to smoothly process payments in any browser, and adding familiar functionality from other Telegram apps. Bot payments, @donate invoices and more are supported – including the ability to subscribe to Telegram Premium with @PremiumBot.
Dozens of bug fixes were also made to the app – but those can be a bit boring to read. If you ever come across a bug in the app, make sure to let us know on the Bugs and Suggestions Platform.
1️⃣ Introducing support for Multiple Tabs – a first for Telegram Web Apps – customizing how you browse Telegram to increase comfort and productivity.
• Open several tabs or browser windows to view multiple chats or channels simultaneously.
• Organize your Telegram workflow on multiple monitors by moving tabs to different screens.
• Use ⌘/Ctrl + click or middle-click on any conversation in your chat list to open it in a separate tab.
All messages and content are seamlessly synced across the tabs. To use multiple tabs on Safari, kindly consider switching to another browser for the best experience. Due to Safari’s technical limitations, the WebK app can still only be used there in a single tab.
2️⃣ WebK gets even more stylish, adding:
• Animated placeholders when loading the chat list. • Scrolling profile pictures in groups that move up and down with their messages. • Menu redesigns with beautiful new blur effects. • Colored reply previews that match the color of your chat partners' names.
This update also includes several bug fixes, removing issues with:
- Incorrect unread values
- Visual errors in placeholders
- Failing to mark messages as read
- Performance drops when returning to previous chats.
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The Video Player now supports Picture-in-Picture mode – keep messaging and switching chats while watching videos. Open a video, then click or tap the icon in the bottom right corner.
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The Audio Player has been packed with two new features for music lovers: set your favorite song to repeat or change the playback order for playlists. It will also remember your playback settings (volume, repeat, and speed).
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Replies in Forwarded Messages – reply previews are now included when forwarding messages to other chats, so everyone can see the full context of your inside jokes.
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Search inputs now transliterate between Latin and Cyrillic keyboards – when searching for your friend Ivan you can type Шмфт and the app will know what you meant.
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Along with other Telegram apps, WebK now shows
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Monospace texthas an improved font with a cleaner look. You can also copy with a tap or click instantly. -
Using the ⬇️ button to jump to the end of a chat now has an animated transition.
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Try the reworked Chat Backgrounds: dark patterns now render faster and instantly resize.
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Issues with messages marked as read automatically and deleting voice messages in Shared Media have been fixed.
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WebK now has an official channel – where we will cover important news, updates and more about the app in English (For Russian, press 2).
- Supported Emoji 14.
- Improved connection stability.
- Files will now load faster with low-speed connection.
- Improved chat opening performance.
- Fixed flickering date.
- Fixed opening chat at wrong position.
WebK introduced Video Chats back in December.
And now we are proud to launch the first-ever version of Telegram P2P Calls on the Web – bringing native support for calls between two users, secured by end-to-end encryption.
Seamlessly call anyone, regardless of the app they are using – calls will work between the WebK app and any other stable Telegram app: Android, iOS, Desktop, and macOS.
To call someone, open your chat with that user and click or tap the Phone icon in the top right corner.
We mainly focused on calls in this update but also made important under-the-hood changes to the login flow, fixing rare issues when signing in.
In the coming weeks, the app will finally get support for all admin features in communities – bringing you dozens of new ways to manage groups and channels.
- Enjoy animated backgrounds: all-new fascinating gradient backgrounds featuring fluid transitions.
- Added menu for bots with beautiful bounce effect when expanding.
- Improvements for playback animation of voice messages.
New:
- Redesigned Profiles – enjoy new enhanced profile view.
- Anonymous Posting in Public Groups – tap the profile picture next to the message bar and choose one of your channels – the messages you send after that will appear with the name and photo of the channel instead of your personal account.
- Better navigation between folders – get back to the main folder by pressing the Escape button.
- Better Reactions: new look, bug fixes for Safari, improved animations.
- Auto-Download Settings became more detailed: you can now toggle auto-download by media type.
- Added ability to change playback rate of voice message and video.
- Video player bug fixes and improvements.
Reactions are now available:
- Open message menu to see all available reactions.
- Send a quick 👍 reaction by hovering the message.
- Set your quick reaction in settings.
- As admin, you are now able to control reactions in your groups or channels.
- You can see the list of people that sent reactions through message menu.
- Read receipts are now available; they are combined with reactions list when it's possible.
- You will receive notification when someone sends a reaction to your message.
- Added support for new video stickers.
New:
- Added support for all interactive emoji, including fullscreen animations and sound effects. Try 😂, 🎄, 🔥 and more.
- Select 'Spoiler' in the formatting menu to hide text with an animation. * Use Ctrl + P (⌘ + P on macOS) to quickly add Spoiler formatting, or || markdown around the text.
- The app now uses alternative network routes when unable to connect via WebSocket.
- Access groups and channels where ‘Restrict Saving Content’ is enabled.
- Launch bots via links with start parameters.
- Share your phone number with bots.
- Text formatting is preserved when pasting from the clipboard.
- Join groups and channels via invite links that require admin approval.
- The app now asks you to confirm before clearing recent searches.
- The app checks for new updates every 30 minutes. * An 'Update' button appears when a new version is available.
Fixes:
- The unread counter for mentions now displays properly.
- No more flickering of the timestamp when sending or receiving messages.
- The app now correctly renders the very first message sent to bots.
- You will no longer see yourself as a 'Deleted Account'.
- Fixed keyboard input when bot suggestions are active.
- Public polls no longer disappear when switching chats.
- Search results correctly display forwarded messages from authors who restricted links to their accounts.
- Channel admins can edit older messages again.
- The message bar shrinks and expands with a totally new animation.
An early version of Video Chats is available in all groups and channels – with a polished design exclusively for Web:
- Expand to view your video chats in fullscreen.
- Try the wide mode, which shows video feeds side-by-side.
- Resize and place the video layout on any part of the screen.
- Minimize the window and the app will remember its precious size and position.
- Mute or leave the video chat from the interactive header.
- Flexible forwarding options: hide the sender name or media captions from messages.
- The ‘Choosing a Sticker’ user status now appears in chats and the chat list.
- Drag-and-drop or paste media to instantly attach it.
- 12-hour time formats are now supported.
- The author’s name will now appear when forwarding animated emoji.
- Fixed layout errors when choosing emoji.
- Fixed problems loading specific folders.
- Fixed layout errors when opening an empty contact.
- Fixed .GIF files that were displaying as documents.
- Fixed stickers that weren’t appearing in the suggestion window.
- Added group members online counter.
- Added description of pinned message in its service notification.
- Improved profile avatar loading.
- Supported adding chats to privacy exceptions.
- Animated emoji starts to load when it's being typed.
- Fixed sending GIF images as media.
- Layout improvements.
- Application has been updated to support new 64-bit identifiers.
- Added Swipe-to-Reply on touchscreen devices
- Rebuilt Chat Folders – easily able to handle large chat lists.
- Added confirmation popups for logging out, cancelling a message edit.
- Fixed sending videos as a file.
- Document thumbnails now properly load when sending and forwarding.
- Media sent as a file now opens properly in the media viewer.
- Other bug fixes and improvements.
- Added changelogs.
- Audio player improvements: seek, next/previous buttons, volume controls. Changing volume in the video player will affect audio as well.
- Fixed inability to delete multiple items from pending scheduled messages.
- Fixed accidentally deleting media messages after removing their captions.
- Fixed editing album captions.