Three Ideas for Telegram

Just a demo to show how articles written with Telegraph look like. This article is about new ideas for Telegram.

Mentions

If somebody mentions you or your username or starts a message with "@all", a new icon will appear next to the search button, showing how many unread mentions you have.

If you click on a mention, it is removed from the list and you jump right into the groupchat. You can also remove all mentions by pressing the bottom right button.

Tabs and More

1. Seperate chats from bots and channels: Swipe to the left - you see your bots and channels, swipe to the right - you see your chats. You don't use channels or bots? Then there are no tabs. If you scroll down the tabs disappear (as the new-message-button does).

2. Long press on a chat (or bot/channel): The chat moves to the left (the profile picture moves to the right) and reveals three buttons: Delete, add to favorites and mute. This also solves the problem that you don't see now which chat you are going to delete (and replaces the long-press-menu of today).

3. Favorites: Pin some chats (and bots or channels) to the top. If you don't use this functionality, there are no labels and Telegram looks as it does today.

Scheduled and Silent Messages

Long-press the send-message button to show a popup which allows you to set whatever time you want (Default time: Now). It also allows you to send silent messages which has the same effect as messages in muted chats (the recipient recieves the message, but no notification). Great if you want to send something not important enough to disturb your friend. Press the back-button on your phone to cancel.

This was just a small demo for @newschannel, using ideas from @ideasfortelegram.