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Telegram Desktop messaging app

63 mentions on Hacker News by 52 people: 2 stories, 61 comments · first 2015-12-01 · latest 2026-05-28

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  1. C++: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop
    comment by mhotchen · 2017-05-19 · in How Four Native Developers Wrote an Electron App
  2. For anyone who interests in looking into the source code: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop
    comment by jacksg · 2017-04-11 · in Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
  3. …become a rather lukewarm telegram developer (though I still have a few projects I am work with) [1] https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop [2] https://core.telegram.org/#updates-log
    comment by surye · 2017-03-30 · in Voice Calls: Secure, Crystal-Clear, AI-Powered
  4. They have? https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop seems fairly up to date?
    comment by RubyPinch · 2017-03-30 · in Voice Calls: Secure, Crystal-Clear, AI-Powered
  5. Yep, Telegram on Desktop uses Qt. It's even open-source and on GitHub: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop
    comment by KuiN · 2017-03-24 · in Going native
  6. …entirely, which supports only OS X obviously. IIRC tdesktop didn't support OS X initially. [1]: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop [2]: https://github.com/overtake/telegram
    comment by rnhmjoj · 2017-01-12 · in Telegram Desktop reaches version 1.0
  7. …but they really need to fix the mobile notifications when using the desktop client [1] [1] - https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/277
    comment by vially · 2017-01-12 · in Telegram Desktop reaches version 1.0
  8. It doesn't seem so: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/871
    comment by rnhmjoj · 2017-01-12 · in Telegram Desktop reaches version 1.0
  9. It's Qt by the way, and it's good on the three platforms. This is the GitHub repo. https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop Development has always looked a bit fishy to me, though. The main developer is anonymous (using the name/pic of…
    comment by akjainaj · 2017-01-12 · in Telegram Desktop reaches version 1.0
  10. …to the client's author. Not having secret chats in Telegram Desktop was a decision of the author - https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/5 They work in cutegram (qt based client. OS X, Linux, Windows, OpenBSD, Arch AUR, etc) -…
    comment by skrowl · 2016-05-05 · in Ask HN: Best encrypted messaging app with mobile and native clients?
  11. …the source myself, but the desktop source code is here if you want to see if this logic is in it: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop
    comment by amyjess · 2015-12-01 · in WhatsApp is blocking Telegram links