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Unofficial, FOSS-friendly fork of the original Telegram client for Android

25 mentions on Hacker News by 18 people: 0 stories, 25 comments · first 2015-06-24 · latest 2024-05-09

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  1. …source code for extended periods of time, which caused Telegram-FOSS to be significantly behind: https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/issues/1... I'm not up to date on the current state of affairs, but I hope this has…
  2. …use firebase for notifications, so I forever have a message in my drawer that leads to this link: https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/blob/mas... I doubt it solves much but I like to think of it as a little poke in the eye.
  3. …a single path was done for that reason. Btw, here's the telegram team complaining about the change: https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/blob/mas... Facebook abused this a bunch. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/fe…
  4. …There is nothing ready right now. [1] https://github.com/UnifiedPush/wishlist/issues/18 [2] https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/issues/5...
  5. There is an unofficial FOSS version. I'm not sure if it is feature complete, secure, etc. https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS
  6. ... and Telegram FOSS [1] fixes all of the mentioned points? [1] https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS
  7. …trackers. [1] https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AppWarden [2] https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/ [3] https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS
    comment by cookiengineer · 2021-02-02 · in Investigation Xoth: Smartphone location tracking
  8. …previously keeping background connection to exclusively use its Firebase push messaging service." https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/blob/mas...
  9. …LineageOS without any burden of push services. You can verify this yourself with AppWarden [2]. [1] https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS [2] https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AppWarden
    comment by cookiengineer · 2021-01-07 · in Poll: Switching from WhatsApp
  10. …behind the releases they upload to the Google Play Store. [1] https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram [2] https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS [3] https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS#changes
    comment by circularfoyers · 2021-01-05 · in Telegram publishes users' locations online
  11. …the location, which I have disabled. So I guess I'm safe? It's mentioned in this changelog item: https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/blob/847... It usually takes some time for Telegram to be published on F-Droid, so the…
  12. > Commits are useless (one commit per release) FTR Telegram is released in a similar fashion: https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS They do have releases more often than Threema though which means the commits are smaller.
    comment by est31 · 2020-12-21 · in Threema apps are Open Source
  13. …respecting" featureset) [2] https://github.com/Leanplum/Leanplum-Android-SDK/blob/master... [3] https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/blob/mas... [4] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/blob/5ad714db864bce7... [5]…
  14. …notifications that never go away: "Telegram" / "Push service: tap to learn more" (tapping opens https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/blob/mas... ) "Signal" / "Background connection enabled" Both are serving the same purpose,…
    comment by LukeShu · 2020-12-08 · in Expanding Fuchsia's open source model
  15. …with Orbot being used as a Proxy. (You can verify this via AppWarden if you don't trust me) [1] https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS [2] https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd [3] https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AppWarden/ [4]…
  16. …fork also is g-services and telemetry/firebase free (you can verify this with AppWarden). [1] [1] https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS
  17. You can find the releases here, and if there is a delay it is only a few days at most: https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/releases Only the clients are open source, but anyone could use the source code to create their own…
  18. …an almost feature parity between the desktop https://desktop.telegram.org/changelog and the mobile https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/blob/HEA... which lead me to think that whoever wrote this article didn't make the right…
  19. …the changelogs for the desktop app https://desktop.telegram.org/changelog and the mobile one https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/blob/HEA... such a lie make me throw away the entire article, not to mention the author of the…
  20. …not build the packages for f-droid. [1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.telegram.messenger/ [2] https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS [3] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.schueller.peertube/
  21. …against FCM. They are just comparing two different methods of running in the background. See: https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/blob/mas...
  22. …is applied since Oreo, which is released two years ago. Why this problem arises today? [1]: https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/blob/mas...
  23. There is a popular fork of the telegram android app (used e.g. by f-droid) https://github.com/slp/Telegram-FOSS Maybe this repo compiles.
  24. There is a FOSS Version: https://github.com/slp/Telegram-FOSS But yeah Telegram isn't as free as it should be (Server etc.).
  25. …People do have complained about this [1][2], but he obviously doesn't (want to) understand git. 0: https://github.com/slp/Telegram-FOSS/issues 1: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/pull/76 2: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/issues/1007
    comment by _jomo · 2015-06-24 · in Telegram Bot Platform