I use telegram on two web instances (a computer at home, and a computer I carry around, as well as my phone). For the past year or so I've been running into an annoying bug where, if a draft was begun on one instance (say, the computer I carry around) it replicates to the others as a convenience feature. That part is only mildly annoying and rarely useful. The main issue is that if the "draft" is nothing more than a simple typo (in this case I'm reporting now, it is literally a ] symbol) after it replicates to the others, it becomes unerasable without going to the home computer and closing telegram. If you erase it on the computer you first typoed it on, it seems to restore it from the idle one, forever. It ignores the fact that that one has been idle for a lot longer and gives it precedence for the draft. Even worse, if, on my active telegram, I work on a draft, even a fairly long message, then switch to another channel, it will erase the draft and replace it with the bogus one from the other machine. It will keep doing this until I close the other machine.
Could you please treat the state of the most recently active telegram as authoritative, and if I erase draft text in a channel on it, propagate it to the others, instead of the other way around? Thanks.
Steps to reproduce
Launch multiple Telegram instances on different machines. (I use 2 web, 1 phone)
Begin a draft on one of them.
Occasionally it will propagate to the others and be unerasable. I don't know if this is 100%, but it does happen to me about once a month.
Once it is propagated, it becomes impossible to cancel the draft, and a brand new draft in that channel will become clobbered by the remote one.
BTW. In the case of the stray "]" draft - I had literally rebooted the home machine yesterday after a major upgrade, and simply started the browser again. Immediately the unerasable "]" began in the open telegram tab. So I think to really solve this you have to remember to erase the draft as well, not just kill the rogue instance. Unfortunately I hadn't noticed until now, so this will continue to plague me all day (unless I jump through a few hoops to connect to that machine and kill the browser).
Martin De Jager
Does not seem that Telegram is interested in responding?
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we are facing the same login issue
kyberneticist🇨🇦🇧🇪🇺🇸
Just did it again. A sentence I'd started then abandoned on the phone is reappearing endlessly. Uneraseable. I'm sure I'll have to go and quit all idle telegram clients on other devices to fix it. Even if they haven't had any activity for hours
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