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Huh, the export function in Telegram Desktop ( https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/ ) is still there. Click on the three dots while in a chat and then Export.

comment by sunaookami · 2026-05-28 · in I analysed 20 years of my chats

It's made with Qt indeed, the source code is here: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop Facebook could just take the app, change the colour's to make it green, and replace the messaging protocol with their WhatsApp library, and…

comment by jeroenhd · 2025-11-13 · in Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper

…right click. Where did you download your client? This ticket suggests that there's no such option: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/871 See also: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/6491

comment by fsflover · 2025-10-14 · in Subverting Telegram's end-to-end encryption (2023)

…client[0] is native (C++ with Qt) and it's a joy to use. I don't want an Electron chat app. [0] https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop

comment by sorenjan · 2025-01-31 · in Developers should embrace creative coding again

…much, it's usually 1-2 minor versions away at max. https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram tdesktop one https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop gets updated directly, not sure about the iOS and macOS ones.

comment by Tiberium · 2024-11-08 · in Tell HN: Telegram is most likely doing client side scanning; I quit Telegram

…in class. The client is open source in C++ which explains why it runs laps around Electron apps: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop It's so quick and intuitive. Plus writing interactive bots for it is trivial.

comment by hu3 · 2024-11-08 · in Tell HN: Telegram is most likely doing client side scanning; I quit Telegram

…how I can start an E2EE chat from my PC. If a feature only ever exists on phone it does not exist. https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/871

comment by rfoo · 2024-05-13 · in Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure

…in the video, and on the recent fix on Media Preview feature of "Instant View" attachments: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/commit/eaaa704fa... (3 days ago) so potentially could be just to send an Instant View link pointing to…

comment by rvnx · 2024-04-09 · in Telegram RCE

No, its UI is made with Qt/C++: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/tree/dev/Telegra...

comment by niutech · 2024-02-08 · in Mozilla's abandoned web engine 'Servo' project is getting a reboot

…few good exceptions. Telegram Desktop uses Qt[1]. Another one is a new app I'm working on[2]. [1] https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop [2] https://www.get-plume.com/

comment by rubymamis · 2024-01-26 · in Too many Mac apps are being built with Electron

Their Desktop app is written in Qt C++[1]. [1] https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop

comment by rubymamis · 2024-01-19 · in A 2024 Plea for Lean Software

How is telegram Electron if it's https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop C++/QT?

comment by eviks · 2023-12-14 · in Proton Mail gets a desktop app for encrypted email and calendar

This one is made with Qt: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop I remembered this one. But having checked clients for other platforms they are not made with Qt. You can check them all here: https://telegram.org/apps

comment by fodkodrasz · 2023-10-13 · in Scrollbars are becoming a problem

…https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS 3. https://github.com/overtake/TelegramSwift 4. https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop

comment by fullstop · 2022-10-25 · in WhatsApp goes down for users globally

Just in case, it's been there for a while - https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/commit/9033d49d7... (2022-06-21T10:04:35Z; e.g. https://i.imgur.com/CxIybIL.png ). Related: https://tass.com/economy/1463755 ( Telegram to launch paid…

comment by f8er · 2022-09-10 · in Telegram Premium

…(aka electron). It's just C++ & QT. List of third-party tech in their desktop stack listed here: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop

comment by BatteryMountain · 2022-06-20 · in 700M users and Premium

…[3]: https://github.com/madler/zlib/blob/cacf7f1d4e3d44d871b605da... [4]: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/blob/6a3ad52aef0... [5]: https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng

comment by MauranKilom · 2022-01-26 · in Zlib – a spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library

▲ 20

To Telegram: Thank You for Not Writing in Electron

story by oneturkmen · 2022-01-05 · 0 comments

…ltofmac.com/314343/use-a-third-party-whatsapp-... [2]: https://telegram.org/apps#unofficial-apps [3]: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop

comment by Hackbraten · 2021-12-08 · in Protected Content, Delete by Date, Device Management and more

…are already fully open. (The server side is not, but there are third party implementations). https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS Plus a few web…

comment by 5e92cb50239222b · 2021-12-08 · in Protected Content, Delete by Date, Device Management and more

I wonder how do they handle DRM content in the open-source version of Telegram - Telegram Desktop ( https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop ). Also, Telegram Desktop is licensed under GPLv3, which is an anti-DRM license. Something…

comment by Croftengea · 2021-12-08 · in Protected Content, Delete by Date, Device Management and more

…software with “low quality and useless” patches, which increases the support burden on the project? https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/8769#issu...

comment by orf · 2021-07-18 · in Telegram Desktop retirement notice from RPM fussion

…to have a modern look and feel, you think that e.g. Telegram or MauiKit apps don't look modern ? https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop https://mauikit.org/

comment by jcelerier · 2021-07-15 · in Installed electron / react, it has 1861 dependencies. This is a problem

Telegram runs on qt: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop#third-party

comment by exciteabletom · 2021-05-09 · in There’s no place for expensive laptops with 8GB of RAM anymore

…for secret chats have been closed since 2016, they have no interest in implementing it either. https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/871

comment by capableweb · 2021-04-26 · in Telegram: Payments 2.0, Scheduled Voice Chats, New Web Versions

…desktop implementations, you can access the telegram desktop source code, which also uses WebRTC: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/blob/a506e9b9eb7...

comment by albertoCaroM · 2021-04-08 · in A simple C implementation to stream H.264 to browser using WebRTC

> cons of Telegram? Also, Telegram is not federated. It is just another vendor lock-in. https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/6841 https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/16068 Contrast that to email. Even if…

comment by kubanczyk · 2021-04-07 · in Et Tu, Signal?

I love Desktop Telegram for many reasons but mostly because it's Open Source: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop

comment by hu3 · 2021-03-15 · in Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon

…. Written almost single handedly by one developer. - Telegram Desktop: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/graphs/contribut... . Written almost single handedly by one developer, who also wrote almost all of the supporting

comment by orbifold · 2021-02-28 · in Signal Desktop is corrupting its database

▲ 4

Telegram ignores option to disable the link preview for 6 years

story by MrFinch · 2021-02-25 · 0 comments

Yes, Telegram Desktop is a normal C++ app: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop So a cross-platform is quite easy, Electron one would need to be tested for different webviews on each system.

comment by krzyk · 2021-02-24 · in Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust

…buggy, especially on CJK character: https://superuser.com/questions/1374761/telegram-message-sea... https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/7096 https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/7022

comment by ytch · 2021-01-12 · in Telegram surpassed 500M active users. 25 mil new users in the last 3days

…use E2EE on the desktop clients, and they have stated that they have no intention of fixing that. https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/118#issue...

comment by monocasa · 2021-01-12 · in Signal increased limits for group calls

https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop

comment by reddotX · 2021-01-12 · in Telegram surpassed 500M active users. 25 mil new users in the last 3days

…apparently. Edit 3: disregard edit 2, I'm stupid. Thanks to @linmob for the correction. :) [1]: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/5759

comment by black_puppydog · 2020-11-18 · in Pine64 November Update: KDE PinePhone CE and a Peek into the Future

I can't explain more about it than I got from stumbling over this: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/1121 And I only read enough of this to gauge whether there is a workaround. :P

comment by black_puppydog · 2020-10-27 · in Graphics in Qt 6.0: QRhi, Qt Quick, Qt Quick 3D

My favorite app made with QT ever is Telegram client. https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop It's so fast to use and the UX is incredible. I'm curious how much custom code is there per platform or QT takes care of most everything. I'd…

comment by nikivi · 2020-10-02 · in Qt Desktop Days Keynote – Qt 6 for the desktop – What can we expect?

…who tried sticked to it. Some highlights are their lightweight, open-source, blazing-fast client ( https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop ) and compatibility with all major platforms like Android, iOS, Windows, macOS and Linux. I'd…

comment by hu3 · 2020-09-05 · in AirMessage – Android app to interface with iMessage on a Mac

Calls use WebRTC, which is of course p2p. [ https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/blob/master/Tele... ] Point is I don't see anything decentralised in MTProto. Unless I'm mistaken Durov announced that he wants to make something p2p,…

comment by tgragnato · 2020-08-27 · in Belarus turned off the internet – citizens hot-wired it

https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop

comment by sorenjan · 2020-06-05 · in Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message encryption

Not on desktop Windows and GNU/Linux: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/871

comment by fsflover · 2020-05-29 · in Show HN: TrashEmail – Telegram-based disposable mail service

…privacy-friendly There is still no e2e encryption on GNU/Linux desktop, even as an option. Upd: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/871

comment by fsflover · 2020-05-29 · in Show HN: TrashEmail – Telegram-based disposable mail service

…client is still quite heavy on resources on Linux, and needs a restart every now and then. [1] https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop [2] https://github.com/zhukov/webogram

comment by MildlySerious · 2020-04-10 · in Jitsi Meet Electron 2.0

My bad: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/tree/dev/Telegra... I'll edit

comment by BiteCode_dev · 2020-04-10 · in Jitsi Meet Electron 2.0

Nope, Telegram is widgets ( https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/search?q=qwidget... )

comment by jcelerier · 2020-04-01 · in OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

Telegram for Desktop is https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop (Qt, open source stuff) Telegram is https://github.com/overtake/TelegramSwift (Swift, Core* libraries) Both are native.

comment by fnord123 · 2019-03-14 · in Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage

…Whatsapp on the desktop Telegram is written in C++ and uses Qt. Maybe you're thinking of Discord? https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop

comment by sorenjan · 2019-02-13 · in Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system webview

…have an issue tracker. According to [1] and links in there it was removed without explanation. [1] https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/1137

comment by nh2 · 2018-04-17 · in Russia Bans 1.8M Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Block Telegram

…autoupdater with http links, sha-1 and rsa-768. But I'm not 100% if I interpret sources correctly. https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/blob/dev/Telegra... https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/blob/dev/Telegra...…

comment by darkk · 2018-04-17 · in Russia Bans 1.8M Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Block Telegram

…Java, the iOS client is mostly Objective-C, and there's also an actively maintained web client. https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop

comment by opencl · 2018-04-09 · in Show HN: Wey – A fast, open-source Slack desktop app