Telegram will be launching Stories soon, following requests from users. The Stories feature will offer privacy options, a compact user interface, flexibility, captions, dual camera support, and optional ephemerality. Users will also be able to save their stories to their profile pages, which will make profiles more informative and colorful.
The official announcement highlights the following key features.
Privacy. You will be able to define who can see each of your stories with granular precision: Everyone, only your contacts (with exceptions), a few selected contacts, or a list of Close Friends.
- Compact UI. Stories will be placed in an expandable section at the top of your chat list, which makes them easily accessible without taking away valuable space.
- Flexibility. It will be easy to hide Stories posted by any contact, moving them to the 'Hidden' list in your Contacts section instead of the main screen.
- Captions. In addition to making use of dozens of powerful photo and video-editing tools, you will be able to provide captions for your stories to add more context or links and tag other people.
- Dual Camera Support. Building on the success of Telegram's Video Messages, we're adding the option to post photos and videos taken by the front and the rear cameras simultaneously.
- Optional Ephemerality. You'll be able to choose when a story expires – in 6, 12, 24, or 48 hours – or permanently display stories on your profile page, with individual privacy settings for each.
- More suprises! 🤩
Channels will benefit from more exposure and subscribers as users will be able to repost messages from channels to stories. Stories are in their last testing phase and will become available in early July.
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