Telegram Channel

Wodan · 18 Jan 2017, 12:38

The Deskthority Telegram group has gotten quite popular really fast and I would like to invite anyone to join!

Spoiler:

You can use a web client but there are also desktop and mobile clients available.

There is also a DTSpy channel where new DT posts are announced from the forum spy:
https://telegram.me/DTSpy

Currently I am in charge of the channel and proposed an open, SFW (safe-for-work) policy. If anyone is unhappy with my management of the club appoint another channel admin I will hand it over to whoever is appointed.

Nuum · 18 Jan 2017, 13:23

We need a Who is Who in Telegram! Also can you somehow have different aliases in different chats?

Edit: I'm Paul M currently. (I think, not entirely sure how this works.)

Khers · 18 Jan 2017, 13:24

That's a good idea, Nuum. I'm not very difficult ot decipher; I'm Khers here and on telegram, but the handle was taken so my telegram handle is @Khersie

Wodan · 18 Jan 2017, 13:28

Oh yeah good point. I set my name to Wodan for easy chat identification, my unique username is @woutan though.

gogusrl · 18 Jan 2017, 17:03

not sure how to create the unique username but I should show up as gogusrl (previously as Andrei).

emdude · 19 Jan 2017, 10:04

I also made an Offtopicthority channel: https://t.me/Offtopicthority

matt3o · 19 Jan 2017, 10:39

I was contemplating the idea of a discord channel actually. what's so special about Telegram?

Khers · 20 Jan 2017, 21:08

Why are there so many services that do the same thing? What's the difference between telegram, discord, slack, etc?

XMIT · 20 Jan 2017, 22:49

It's all about market segmentation.

We live in an era when anyone can go and write a messaging platform in a few weekends, and there is no real reason to use one over the other. It's not like the good ol' days of IRC.

matt3o · 21 Jan 2017, 00:19

well, telegram (AFAIK) is open source, none of the others are.

Wodan · 21 Jan 2017, 09:01

I just never used Discord and did use Telegram for some keyboard related stuff so it was my first choice. Slack is more of a corporate, closed solution that requires invites for every new member and individual registration for every slack channel joined. You register for the GH slack and then register for the DT slack ...

Ray · 21 Jan 2017, 12:00

matt3o wrote: ↑well, telegram (AFAIK) is open source, none of the others are.

afaik only the clients are

mike52787 · 28 Jan 2017, 19:08

Anyone who hasn't joined this, please do! the chat is a ton of fun.

Wodan · 01 Feb 2017, 09:03

24/7 intense partying!

seebart · 01 Feb 2017, 09:12

Wodan wrote: ↑24/7 intense partying!

I think I need to try this like suggested to me Wodan.

Wodan · 05 Feb 2017, 10:57

Still no seebart

It's a lot of interactivity these days, some users posting pics from their WIP projects

Wodan · 15 Feb 2017, 21:28

I've done a couple of very ... relaxing live streams recently and usually announce them on Telegram. Recordings can be found in my video thread ofc!

seebart · 15 Feb 2017, 21:47

Wodan wrote: ↑Still no seebart

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Wodan · 14 Mar 2017, 12:46

We're getting 2k posts per 24h now ... an active keyboard chatroom!

An awful lot of Alps lovin' tho ... still figuring out how to censor that.

Engicoder · 14 Mar 2017, 15:12

Sigh...there are so many chat/message mediums. An old man like me can't keep up.
XKCD sums it up well:

seebart · 14 Mar 2017, 15:29

Engicoder wrote: ↑Sigh...there are so many chat/message mediums. An old man like me can't keep up.
XKCD sums it up well:

Agreed, I only use that Telegram channel when I'm on the road and there are some strange people there that I don't know and others that I do know but under different names like secret russian Scott.

Wodan · 14 Mar 2017, 15:36

Feel the same way, had to pick one ... open for alternatives

seebart · 14 Mar 2017, 15:39

Wodan wrote: ↑Feel the same way, had to pick one ... open for alternatives

What? A new telegramm signature for you?

Spoiler:

Rimrul · 14 Mar 2017, 20:27

Engicoder wrote: ↑Sigh...there are so many chat/message mediums. An old man like me can't keep up.
XKCD sums it up well

This seems wrong. Don't twitter DM, google docs chat tab and hangouts require e-mail? And according to this there should be someone who refuses to use anything but IRC:

And then there's this guy:

And one of them is probably this person:

seebart wrote: ↑
Spoiler:
Hardcore Cherry MX Fetichist.

ch?

seebart · 14 Mar 2017, 20:56

I see someone from the legendary CB rear admiral fleet is here. Losers.

Harshmallow · 15 Mar 2017, 18:26

I don't like that it puts me back where I was when I last logged and then says 'you have 15 million messages to catch up on!'

I know I can just skip straight to the bottom, but obsessive me feels like he needs to read through all those comments! Sometimes I just don't bother because I'm not on enough and get tired of trying to catch up. Also. can you search for keywords in the comments? I can't remember if I found anything for that or not.

I used to use mIRC all the time to download my super above-board and legal video game and movie copies

It was weird learning it at first, but it was always to reliable and simple.

PollandAkuma · 17 Mar 2017, 11:38

Khers is dearly missed from this chat.

Wodan · 17 Mar 2017, 12:44

jam ... come back

I'll make you tea.

Khers · 17 Mar 2017, 17:03

I disappeared, but I'll be back!

seebart · 17 Mar 2017, 17:26

Khers wrote: ↑I disappeared, but I'll be back!

I might not.

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