Telegram celebrated its tenth anniversary last month, and in addition to the upbeat statistics, it did so with the launch of a long-awaited feature: stories. Yes, the same concept of Instagram, WhatsApp and others, but on Telegram. However, the novelty was yet to spread to other areas of the platform, although it did so in a sibylline manner.

So the September update to the messaging service includes stories for channels, making it easier for these communication channels to use this feature. Not only that: Stories are enhanced with options such as adding music, using stickers for reactions, as well as “boosts” to make them stronger, although as an added bonus, it’s all up to paying users… more or less .

Topic strengthens or impulses has its crumb, and that’s it paying users only They can provide support to channels, which in return receive feedback from other paying users to publish stories, all through a somewhat confusing tier system. In other words, while the stories may be interesting, the constraints and model are less attractive overall.

Or, in other words, between the requirement to be a Telegram Premium subscriber and have the support of other subscribers and how complicated they are, at least on paper, it doesn’t look like it’s going to have much success. Who knows. Keep in mind that in any case Telegram stories can be hidden not to disturb.

Other new Telegram features include the ability to apply reactions using stickers (stickers) interactive, an option that adds to an already existing emoticon, the aforementioned music in stories, another option to schedule the deletion of images and videos in a certain time period (3, 10 and 30 seconds), the start notification will notify that it will appear above the chat list , fixes, optimizations, etc. For more information, check the official announcement.

And that’s all. In case of interest, if you are a user of the service, don’t forget that you can watch everything we post on the MC channel on Telegram. Of course, don’t expect more stories than what is written.