Anyone else have this "stories" shit on their telegram?

「 Fristi 」

Apparently some new feature rolled out in telegram and I have no idea wtf it even is, but it's obnoxious as hell. Anyone else have this too?

Maybe I should just drop telegram if this is its future.

toast

It's basically instagram but built-in.
And yeah I have it.
It's weird tbh

toast

P.S. this should go in general.
News is really for stuff like new things coming out, announcements, talks, etc.
And it's not really tech per se it's just a thing.
Similarly your phone bootlooping isn't really tech eh :0

「 Fristi 」

toast 🤷 i mean it's phone stuff so I figured tech, also since it's a new thing I figured news

i'll rember 🙂

mycelium what I hate about it is that it randomly pings you about some shit one of your contacts told you literally 2 weeks ago, so in my book it's officially the most redundant pointless feature to be ever added to anything. Pretty annoying stuff.

mycelium

ye it was a pro feature for a couple of weeks, now it seems to be available to everybody?
cool I guess, I prob will never use it.
same goes for signal who rolled stories 4 months ago or something like that
it seems feature creeping, but makes sense for the average user I guess

johann

mycelium in Signal you can turn that stuff of (which I immediately did). i dont think i saw something like that in telegram settings though. what i found is that i can turn off notifications for stories, but there is a weird "automatic exceptions" toggle which makes it so i still receive stories from some people apparently. so now that is turned off too.