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Adding a note to a user in his profile #2557
And yeah, it is really frustrating when someone uses the nickname as a status indicator but you never get to see it because you added them to contacts.
Especially annoying that I either have to contend with their name being hidden by their phone number (who cares about these…?) or have their name never update and have no way to ever ever know they updated it. Seriously there’s ZERO indication someone updated their display name, at all! There isn’t even a grayed out subscript or something…
I've been wanting this for a while.
Many people update their public names with their affiliations, with the events/countries they're going to, or with other information which can be useful, so as of late I have not been adding anyone (other than personal contacts who aren't likely to do so) and just chat with them as non-contacts.
However, not having them as contacts has several disadvantages too:
- You don't get updates on their stories
- They don't see your phone number (and whatever other information you have set to "contacts only"), which may also make them realize that you didn't add them when they did
- You cannot make private notes on their profiles. Notes would be especially useful for business contacts, but those are usually the ones whose name updates I want to see automatically
For documentation purposes, this feature has been suggested in parallel a couple times:
- https://webappbugs.telegram.org/c/40904
- https://webappbugs.telegram.org/c/39151
Funnily, I did not find this suggestion when I initially searched about the topic (wanted to suggest it myself too)
If this feature stays unimplemented, we may be able to ask the developers of some third-party Telegram client (like Forkgram, Nekogram, Telegram X...) to see if it can be done there