Currently, in supergroups with Topics enabled, every topic is visible and fully accessible to all members by default.
This forces large teams, companies, educational groups and active communities to create multiple separate supergroups just to separate discussions (e.g. “General”, “Finance”, “Development”, “Management”). As a result we get fragmented communication, duplicated member lists, scattered message history and a significantly worse user experience.
Suggested feature:
Allow owners and administrators to make any topic private (visible and accessible only to selected users).
Key options:
Choose exactly which users or roles can see the topic
Fine-grained permissions per topic:
• View messages
• Send messages
• Join / leave the topic
Support both individual users and existing group roles (like in current group permissions)
Option to hide the topic completely from unauthorized members (it simply doesn’t appear in their topic list)
Administrators should be able to change access list at any time.
Use cases:
Corporate teams: one main company supergroup + private topics for “Executive Board”, “Finance & Legal”, “Engineering”, “HR”, etc.
Large communities & paid groups: general chat + exclusive topics for donors, VIP members, moderators or premium subscribers only.
Schools & universities: single supergroup for the whole course + closed topics for different classes, project groups or “Teachers only”.
Any organization that needs both open collaboration and confidential / team-specific conversations in the same workspace.
Why this matters:
This single feature would eliminate the need for dozens of separate chats, keep all history and search in one place, and make Telegram much more powerful for professional and large-scale use — directly competing with Slack, Discord and Microsoft Teams, where private channels inside one workspace are standard.
It would greatly improve Telegram’s adoption in businesses, education and big communities.