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I understood what you meant but again, it forces me to add person to my contacts while I don't want to do that just to see an image or a video. What about stickers? There are plenty floating NSFW stickers around.

Again, I don't think your proposed solution solves anything in this topic :(

Fabian Pastor Oct 24, 2021

I agree with Dot on this one. What differentiates Telegram from others is the ability to reach out to people all around the world. If someone posted something interesting on a public forum, you can reach out to them and try to make a friend. If messages from non-contacts are blocked, then Telegram would become this narrow messenger only for communicating with friends and family. THAT is how Telegram would go downhill, I think. What I don’t quite agree on is “turning messages from strangers into requests for communication”. If you’re getting a lot of messages and are fed up with the scams/gross pictures, how likely is it you would accept requests? Not very likely right? So we’re back to the same box. And requests for communication sound a lot like Facebook friend requests… :/ My suggestion: Keep everything as it is but block strangers from sending picture/video files. In other words, strangers can still contact you but can only send text based messages. After you’ve added them to your contact list, then they can send you pictures and videos.

To be honest? I don't want to add users as contacts just to talk to them.
Also i agree with you that a popup or a place where a notification raises up to letting other start a conversation with you will have the same issue as the block and report big button we have now.
If you are one of those unfortunate users that receive a lot of private messages from strangers you'll end up with many confirmation messages too. And most of the time you don't know what they want until you talk a few phrases with them. So it's completely useless.
(it's just my opinion)

I would love to be able to allow or not that strangers would contact me without having to press things and do stuff.

Toku Oct 24, 2021

Fabian Pastor

"If you are one of those unfortunate users that receive a lot of private messages from strangers you'll end up with many confirmation messages too. And most of the time you don't know what they want until you talk a few phrases with them."

That's exactly why I'm having doubts about the "requests to communicate" suggestion. It's a lot like "asking to ask". (Just ask!) You don't know what they want from you so how are you supposed to vet them?

𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀 Oct 24, 2021

Way to much text for me. I would say, maybe after some amount of blocked/reported users the option to automatically mute&archive should appear. Let's say for example if 10 users were blocked in the past 90 days or if 30 users were blocked in total since registration

dot

I understand your concern.

Another but similar suggestion: First message sent by stranger can only be text-based. Then if you choose to engage with them, i.e. reply, then the capability to send you pictures/videos is unlocked for them. That should screen off some people because it’s more work for them. And you never have to add anyone to your contacts.

Just throwing ideas out there…

Sen Oct 24, 2021

Or keyword feature that allows users to input custom keywords, as language and pickup lines for sexting evolves, that auto sends these messages to a spam folder for review. Also a select all and/or multiple message selection feature that has the option to report all as spam, harassment, etc.

X Oct 24, 2021

It is very important that Telegram allows the user to choose this privacy setting when registering, along with the one that the app does not notify the rest of the contacts that they have joined Telegram.

Only thing is, if users could choose whether to receive messages from non-contacts, they would likely have it off, which would defeat Telegram's purpose of freely reaching anyone.

Telegram must respect privacy of user.

Privacy is about keeping what you want to keep in your bubble in your bubble. When people reach out to you, they have not touched your bubble in any way - you still retain the decision of whether to talk to them or ignore. You retain the choice of how to react.

Apps that prevent Direct messages from strangers from reaching you: Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Line, Viber, Discord, We Chat... 🙄

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