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.
Indeed a very bad design choice. Please remove this instantly, thanks.
Ysegrim Wolf
This change means that many pictures/other media can no longer be viewed because the linked sites require login even for "public" media (bsky, xitter, …), non-mobile browsers, full javascript support (mastodon, ...) and really reduces the value of posting links. Please allow showing the linked media again on click, at least optionally.
◣ʀᴀɪɴ◥
You can still pinch to zoom on it, like before, but it's very annoying and useless. I'd like a toggle, to switch to the old behaviour.
It's blantanly rent-seeking behavior. They took something that was a normal feature, and then made it worse so that you have to buy the Premium version of the app to get it back.
so now we get a tiny button in the corner, that doesn't even allow scrolling between the embed images like the old behavior did... i guess it's better than nothing, but it's still a massive downgrade. :/ wish they'd just have the old behavior behind an experimental setting or something, just like they kept square chat bubbles there. but whatever
Kao / Mitsu
Adding another one to the pile here, this is very annoying behaviour and causes concerns about having to actually visit the site that's hosting the image instead of of just viewing from preview. Please make it a setting rather than enforcing it!
comi 🔜 NFC26
they just added this, if you click on it it shows you the image in telegram app
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.
I'd like a toggle, to switch to the old behaviour.
i guess it's better than nothing, but it's still a massive downgrade. :/
wish they'd just have the old behavior behind an experimental setting or something, just like they kept square chat bubbles there. but whatever