Log in here to report bugs or suggest features. Please enter your phone number in the international format and we will send a confirmation message to your account via Telegram.
We've just sent you a message.
Please confirm access via Telegram
Like many have asked before (for different reasons) for years (even before we had this suggestions platform) and as you can see with other suggestions in this platform too:
https://bugs.telegram.org/c/1748
https://bugs.telegram.org/c/3417
https://bugs.telegram.org/c/10535
https://bugs.telegram.org/c/10533
There is a need by some people to be able to avoid private messages for non-contacts.
Why?: There are many reasons on why to add this feature.
As a social person i enjoy being inside Public Groups. It's amazing to be able to talk to other people from all around the world.
But it comes with a cost:
Users/Scammers/Spammers and Autommated Accouns that are (or not) inside public groups can annoy you in private.
For some unclear reason Telegram decided to just ignore the issue. They added a bunch of options that are not enough.
For example there is a hidden privacy option to Archive and Silence new Private Messages from non-contact users.
It's a step forward but this option only appears if you litterally get bombarded with hundreds of unknown users...
Most of the people that ask for a way to disable Private Messages from non-contacts are females.
Making that option hidden until some unknown conditional is reached feels like Telegram is embracing all those Creeps to allow them to annoy those females in private.
Not letting anyone decide if they want to (or not) receive private messages just kills the spirit of Public Groups for some minorities.
To be fair: We already asked and made noise with this topic back in 2016 or 2017... Probably no one will give a f*** about this.
Telegram Team lives in a bubble for years, they see things from another prespective as a New User that starts with Telegram, enters it's first masive Public Group and then it gets countless messages from bad people.
And don't take me wrong... More than 80% of people are really nice human beings... But in a group of 10K users even if just the 10% are the worst it's enough to drive you crazy with private messages from strangers.
Other suggestions:
https://bugs.telegram.org/c/3417
https://bugs.telegram.org/c/10548/15
https://bugs.telegram.org/c/10548/20
- Only Telegram could knows (maybe not even they know)
> But what has that to do with the suggestion?
If and how does that encryption take place if things are unique to each device?
> What encryption? What are you talking about? Who is talking about encryption?
That means there's an exchange of data taking place somewhere, no?
> What? exchange of data? What are we talking about? I really have no clue why you answer as if someone talked about another different thing...
I'm not savvy at all but something about an IP address seems to come to mind.
> What? IP address? what has that to do with the suggestion either way?
In case it wasn't clear enough: This suggestion is just to bring into attention that the final user should be the one that decides if he want or not being poked by strangers. At the end he is the one that suffers if he engages in many public groups.
Remeber: Friends invest together xD
I could write a book on how many strange scams i have seen already on Telegram.
Right now your only real option if you don't want to be contacted by scammers is to not use any Public Groups. And even less the "kinda official" Telegram Groups. If you enter those and you don't have the privacy flag of being added on groups and channels you'll get added to many many scam groups xD
Allow users to define a verification process, a stranger must answer correctly before add contact or sending message.