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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.
Thank you
Related suggestion https://bugs.telegram.org/c/2377
They 'have' to open the muted topics, just to clear the number, and sole have even left my group because of it!
When someone creates a topic in a supergroup, it doesn't have a counter badge, only a small dot indicating that this is a new topic, unless you open that topic. This option could replace the counter with the similar dot (or gray out the chat/topic if you can't stand even a dot), and exclude this chat/topic from group/folder/app counter
For me, the logic is this:
- important or personal chats - aren't muted and probably even have their own notification sound to react to them
- the chats you no longer need - you leave
- the chats you no longer need, but with valuable chat history - get moved to archive
- group chats or channels - are muted most of the time because of barrage of notifications, but you see the unread counter, so you know what have you missed
- and **chats you want to visit from time to time, without feeling the need to read all of it or anxiety of unread messages - you can mute _and_ hide the counter**