A message info screen with more information about the 'read' status of messages:
When the message was read in private chats.
Which group members read the message and at what time.
Use cases
Knowing that you can count on the fact that a certain group member read the message.
Potential issues
Privacy issues. Could be partially – but not fully – mitigated by tying visibility to the Last Seen privacy settings of the user.
Telegram groups can get up to 200,000 members which makes tracking read statuses more complicated and would potenitially add significant overhead while the use cases for this are relatively rare.
Workarounds
You can currently rely on a person's Last Seen status (if they are sharing it with you) to get a general idea of when they've read your messages – and whether they've read messages in your common groups.
If it's important to know when a certain message gets read in a group, you could ask your recipients to acknowledge they've read it (for example, with an animated sticker).
It would be great to have that at least for private groups
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Влад
Most of the times don't want anyone to see that it was me who read a group chat message. I also don't want to hide my online status from all just to hide the fact that I read some message. I disagree with the suggestion.
Perfect 👌🏽 For private or for small groups. Less than 5k members for example
Mobby
This suggestion may prove to be useful, if implemented correctly and with sensible defaults. A new setting may be added that allows users to specify whether or not they want to expose their read status so directly, allowing then to regulate it on a chat-per-chat and user-per-user basis (so that users can expose their read status in their family group, but not their work group, or let a specific user (friend or colleague) be able to see or not see their read status).
I believe most sensible defaults would be: 1. Allow for private groups. 2. Block for public groups. 3. Require admin enable this feature in public groups before using it at all. 4. Feature depends on Online status visibility: if someone is blocked to see your online status, they can't see your enhanced read status.
Rubens Rainelli ࿋
I would add it as an admin based feature, so in business groups everyone could know if the colleague has read the message or not
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Deleted Account
For myself, personally? I don't even need anything this detailed. As it is right now, I can only tell if NOBODY's read my message or if at least one person has. This is fine for 1:1 conversation, but not really helpful in group or channel situation - especially if I am using it to send out important information.
I would be fine with just a number of people who's yet to read any given message.
At least this way, I at least have some meaningful number. For instance, I can show up to a meeting and say "10 of you are still not reading the messages I send out." or "Even though most of you have READ my message, only 5 of you have completed the survey that I asked" or something like that.
Kim
No please, we need privacy 🔏
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Hans Cahn
I would really appreciate that as it is quite a usefull feature to see who already knos about content in a gruop. This feature is already vailable on signal... For people that really dont want anybody to see what they read and what not you could add an additional point in the privacy settings.
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Fendy 🤲
I don't support this idea because if someone reads my messages in the group, it doesn't mean he really reads it, he might be only see the message or just go through all thousands messages
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For private or for small groups. Less than 5k members for example
I believe most sensible defaults would be:
1. Allow for private groups.
2. Block for public groups.
3. Require admin enable this feature in public groups before using it at all.
4. Feature depends on Online status visibility: if someone is blocked to see your online status, they can't see your enhanced read status.
I would be fine with just a number of people who's yet to read any given message.
At least this way, I at least have some meaningful number. For instance, I can show up to a meeting and say "10 of you are still not reading the messages I send out." or "Even though most of you have READ my message, only 5 of you have completed the survey that I asked" or something like that.