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.
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?
For example, Telegram X for Android or Unigram for Windows. Although all of the alternative ones are missing some features, so it will be a compromise either way.
Gotriss
I wonder if telegram got a call from YouTube, Twitter and other platforms forcing them to make links redirect to their apps instead of bypassing them/show within the app. Cos it makes no sense that they'd implement this willingly. But given their current streak of mistakes I wouldn't put it past them to change perfectly fine features just because they wanted to add chaos (or later sell it as a premium feature).
Ever since they did the whole premium thing telegram has been devolving as an app. What a shame. Enshittification of the internet is truly everywhere.
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THIS. Why is it so hard to do?
Ever since they did the whole premium thing telegram has been devolving as an app. What a shame. Enshittification of the internet is truly everywhere.