The latest messaging client update Telegram brought several important innovations, as is the case with applications whose development is relatively active.

The first news is similar channelswhich consist of a feature that allows the user to view a An auto-selected list of public channels with topics similar to the last one to which he joined. Needless to say, there are currently millions of active Telegram channels covering all kinds of topics, from news to entertainment.

From now on it is possible republish stories from friends and feeds on the user’s page, allowing you to expand your audience with just two taps. Additionally, republishing a story opens the door to adding additional content such as text, audio or video commentary, with a separate visibility setting to configure the reach of the republish.

Another new thing is that from this launch you can add a video message to a story post comment or simply make a face to send a graphic message. Video messages can be resized and moved within the screen and along the timeline to start and end any frame. There are plenty of creative options available to the user to let their imagination run wild, and stories that are reposted are also compatible with video messages.

From this launch, channels capable of publishing stories allow you to see statistics of story views, shares and reactions, with detailed graphs that allow you to track the content that was most successful. Meanwhile, channel admins have a new reaction management interface where they can add or remove specific emoticons, and statistics show a “reaction” graph based on the emoticons used to react to posts.

Telegram is a service widely used among programmers, either for collaboration or resource sharing. For this reason, perhaps more than one will like to see that application is able to detect the language of the code present in the block and highlight the syntaxso it should be easier to distinguish between C# and Java, for example.

One curious thing, just for iOS users, is that auto-delete messages have an evaporating animation reminiscent of Thanos’ snap using the Infinity Gauntlet. It’s more of an aesthetic improvement than anything else, but you can’t say it doesn’t look good.

Users of Telegram Premium, the paid subscription version of the service, can transcribe voice and video messages. This has now rolled out to free users, but with the limitation that they can only do it twice a week, and at the moment it looks like it’s not available to everyone.

Another of the main features exclusive to Premium is the ability to choose the color of the username, links sent and replies to messages. These options have been expanded to include the ability to choose a unique color combination with user profile logos to make your page stand out.

The second exclusive news for users Premium is the option to set a wallpaper for both participants in the conversationthereby expanding the possibilities of custom wallpapers for individual chats.

And that’s all the news about the latest update of Telegram, a messaging service that, apart from being the main rival of WhatsApp, has grown over the years to do much more than just send and receive messages, but rather evolve. into a real social network (or at least implement many of the features we usually find in social networks).