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Telegram's Message Limit: Old Messages Gone Forever
X ✰, Jul 19, 2022 at 18:47, edited
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When the message count reaches a million, old messages disappear.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Be an active Telegram user
  2. Wait until the coveted number of incoming/outgoing messages is reached.
  3. Eh, it's a shame, the messages are gone!

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Deleted Account Jul 26, 2022
>_run
Hey! I think the limit for private chats & channels should be kept, but for groups it should be deleted. No one reads too old messages in PMs or Channels(btw, reaching 1 mln messages is unreal though, unless you flood the chat), but for big groups, it is a disadvantage.
me and my gf had like 2mil of messages in 2 years, so it’s really easy to reach this limit
>_run Jul 26, 2022
Deleted Account
me and my gf had like 2mil of messages in 2 years, so it’s really easy to reach this limit
Lol, interesting. Do you need to read those messages?
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Deleted Account Jul 26, 2022
>_run
Lol, interesting. Do you need to read those messages?
yes, sometimes i revisit some moments of our relationship or some old qt photos
komron️ Jul 26, 2022
This is a real issue. I've been a Telegram user since 2015, and am already nearing my personal message limit given I use the platform every day. On certain large chats I moderate, history is no longer available which is quite bad also, since it can be important to revisit older messages. Really sad that this still an issue despite being promised that it will be fixed by both Durov and the Telegram team.
Aryn Aug 6, 2022
Example of channels with 1M+ posts:
@btcprices
@ethprices
⁠⁠Dan Aug 9, 2022
>_run
Lol, interesting. Do you need to read those messages?
Toxic boi
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Deleted Account Aug 20, 2022
Agreed, although 1 million is a very large number to have. Even in office envs (and telegram is not a replacement for an office env) mailboxes often have a storage limit, archival.

While it makes sense that useful information can be there, at a free level of things 1 million for 2 users convo is a very handsome number to have.

Been 6 years here on telegram, never have been able to hit this limit or have been able to see this as a potential problem (I know this doesnt mean it wont for everyone) just sharing it as an example that the limit is less of a bug and more of a generous limit.
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Rakkyo 🎃 Aug 20, 2022
As an example: my account is 5 years old, right now I have 700K messages. I'll probably hit 1M in a few years. My friend's account is 5-6 years old, right now they have 1.6M messages.

It's not that hard to reach 1M if you actively communicate with friends/lovers in 1x1 chats over years. As time goes more and more users will encounter this problem.

If limit can't be raised/removed for performance or server resources reasons, at least system should be changed from purely ID/counter based to a real non-deleted amount of messages. So that users can manually delete unneeded messages to lower their amount before they reach limit, or to restore access to hidden messages after they have reached limit and lost some.
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ㅤ Aug 21, 2022
I can confirm this happened to me recently a week ago. I am a developer of a bot and I gather logs of the bot to identify bugs and improve features and to check and ban offensive users and to identify and ban users who does anything related to adult contents through the bot! The log channel was created on 10th October of 2021. When I was checking some messages of the log I discovered every message from then upto august 1st of this year has been deleted/wiped completely. The current message count is around 900000 so I guess they don't wait until it hits exactly 1M.
Yusuf 𝓟𝓸𝔃𝓲𝓽𝓲𝓯 SAHİP Aug 22, 2022
I hope you are gonna solve it because you are interested in telegram premium now, and you don't see bugs
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Deleted Account Aug 22, 2022
I can confirm this has happened to my older channels too. Also to the popular ones. Messages were wiped that were older than March of '22 in one channel... another - older than march 2020.. crazy... lost lots of important messages.. had no clue that this might ever happen... So sad.

What's the point of having these channels/groups then?
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