I'm in a few large chats, the kind where there are several thousand messages per day. I don't have the free time to read every one of those messages, but the unread counter makes me feel obligated to. It would be awesome if I could set those channels to just not track my last read position. That way, when I tap on them, I'm dropped at present, and there's no unread counter pressuring me into reading every message. To compare it to other chat systems, it would be a bit like IRC, where if you close the app, you miss any messages sent while the app was closed.
I totally agree it's a most wanted feature if Telegram wants to stand out from the competitors. this 'addiction' to read count could be easily overcome with a 'do not follow' feature.. or 'mark as read' like we have in the email rules..
Wow! This suggestion exist for a year! It is definitely needed to implement! Solution to move those chats to archive doesn't impact situations when I've got about 200 messages per day and only 5-7, which I'm really interested in, where people mention me and write what they want from me. Put this chat to archive after receiving every message where i was mentioned - very annoying ;(
Ivan M
I'd subscribe to Premium for a feature like that. Please also consider it for separate group topics, not only for groups themselves.
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