When someone posts a link, Telegram generates a link preview with title, media and some of the text from the page linked. Ever since the October 2023 update, clicking or tapping anywhere inside the preview box opens the link. This means you can't open, expand, zoom or seek some media (images, videos, gifs) from the preview anymore. Allow media to be opened simply when clicked or tapping directly on the media, instead of assuming what the user wants to do. Users have enough intelligence to know to click the colored, underlined link (which is standard UX everywhere) if they want to open the link itself. If you dont want this to be the default, then at least add a setting for it.
The developers fixed it for video, but not for photos. And it looks absurd.
Also, before fixing the bug for videos, the bug also applied to links like https://t.me/mudak/79920. That is, when clicking on photos and videos from such previews, I was thrown to the channel. Now I am not. Neither with photos nor with videos.
What prevents you from doing the same for photos linked to third-party sites, if you have already fixed it for links to channels in Telegram?
Update. Bug with t.me links with photos in previews is still not fixed. I can open images without throwing to the channel only if link have 2+ photos (album).
As of iOS 10.2.1, videos can now be played again. But images still open the link instead of expanding to full screen.
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> If you dont want this to be the default, then at least add a setting for it.
THIS. Why is it so hard to do?
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This update makes me not want to post links anymore since the previews (which used to work great) are now almost completely useless. Dropping a tweet into a conversation used to be an effortless way for everyone to see what they needed from it and keep chatting, now it forces you over to a browser to see anything more than 10 words or a tiny thumbnail image. Whose idea was this?!
Selicre
Please do make this a toggle. This behaviour is still present for regular image links, so this shouldn't be particularly hard.
Mohammad Mahdian
Last update is a huge downgrade for telegram, in all aspects...
Rakarra
This really does seriously degrade the value of links. Greatly prefer the previous behavior.
Mato Kuroi
Every update Telegram keeps adding something new instead of just solidifying what it already has and slowly becoming an ugly lagging mess. The premium update was terrible, but at least it made sense - they need money to keep going. But this update is one big disaster that I have no idea how to justify.
are there any good alternative clients? telegram by removing the ability of opening media from preview is realy pushing me away from this update, are there any way to downgrade a client?
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Also, before fixing the bug for videos, the bug also applied to links like https://t.me/mudak/79920. That is, when clicking on photos and videos from such previews, I was thrown to the channel. Now I am not. Neither with photos nor with videos.
What prevents you from doing the same for photos linked to third-party sites, if you have already fixed it for links to channels in Telegram?
THIS. Why is it so hard to do?