Opening a profile automatically mutes the chat

[RememberTheAir]

Steps to reproduce

1. search for an username or open an user profile/channel/bot from an username in a message

Expected behaviour

The channel/user/bot's notifications are not muted as soon as you open the profile (if I recall correctly, channels are muted as soon as you subscribe them)

Actual behaviour

The notifications checkbox is unchecked (and thus notifications are muted) as soon as you open the profile. If you are fast enough, you can see the checkbox being untoggled in front of your eyes.

Here's a link to a video where I open some random profiles I've never opened before, their notifications checkboxes get automatically unchecked (note that I'm not clicking on the checkboxes, it was my fault to hover on them with the mouse while recording the video): link

Configuration

Operating system: Windows 7 and Windows 10 Pro 10.0.15063

Version of Telegram Desktop: 1.1.19 alpha portable

Used theme: default

[RememberTheAir]

Another video: me looking for random bots. Bots get automatically muted as soon as I open their profile. With the second one, if you pay enough attention, you can see the notifications checkbox being automatically unchecked right after I open its profile

[stek29]

I tried but was unable to reproduce it.
Usually it happens when peer is unmuted on server side but tdesktop doesn't know about it -- and when it requests "UserFull" it notices that it's muted and I uncheckes that checkbox.

The only reason bots can be authomatically unmuted that I can think of is muting all users, but tdesktop handles it correctly, without reloading.

Could you enable debug logs, search for random bots and then open mtp_HH_MM.txt log and look for notify_settings of those bots?

[RememberTheAir]

@stek29 I searched for the following bots and users (...I've never seen before):
@sssbot
@fffbot
@hhhbot
@riccar
@andrea

The username links to the result of what I suppose was the result of UserFull. The notification flags appear to always be 0

[stek29]

mute_until is more interesting than flags :)

[stek29]

Also, are those users muted on other apps? You can try https://web.telegram.org.

[RememberTheAir]

@stek29 yes, they result muted in other apps (screenshots -> @riccar, @fffbot)

[RememberTheAir]

Interesting: just noticed that this is actually happening also from the latest Android beta 4.2.2 (10595). So I guess this is an API issue?

When I search for random usernames (users/bots), and I open their profile, notifications are turned off

I wonder if I'm the only one having this issue

[john-preston]

@RememberTheAir I'm afraid tdesktop is not muting anything on profile open indeed — it just loads the status of notifications and shows it in the profile. The question is why everyone is muted for you on the server side.

[RememberTheAir]

@john-preston yes, not a tdesktop problem. Feel free to close this issue. I will report this to the in-app support

[john-preston]

@RememberTheAir There are some global notifications settings, perhaps you turned them off? For all users/ all chats?

[RememberTheAir]

@john-preston there are? From where do I do that?

[stek29]

@RememberTheAir Yes.
You can check them via tjhorer.com/webogram.
Log in, click on "Telegram for Devs", click on Sandbox.

Method is account.getNotifySettings
Payload is {"peer":{"_":"inputNotifyUsers"}}

[RememberTheAir]

@stek29 thanks.

respose from the API

I honestly don't understand what this means... are these my default "global" notifications settings? If yes, how do I change them? I'm looking at the latest layer but I can't find a function that could help me

[stek29]

Yes, those are your default notification settings for users (=bots)
You have them muted until 2038 (forever XD)

Here's how to unmute them:
account.updateNotifySettings
{"peer":{"_":"inputNotifyUsers"}, "settings": {"_":"inputPeerNotifySettings", "mute_until":0, "flags": 1 }}

Setting mute_until to 0 disables mute, setting flags to 1 enables show_previews.
You may also want to add "sound": "9.m4a" to set notification sound on apps different from TDesktop. Mine is 9, others should be fine too, maybe even having it empty is ok.

[stek29]

Oh, and about the latest layer.
Official site is awfully outdated. Use tl file in this repo, or https://stek29.rocks/tl-schema

[RememberTheAir]

@stek29 thanks a lot for the help! It worked :)

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