https://api.telegram.com/botTOKEN/sendMessage?id=YOUR_ID&message="your servers are on fire"
Only thing I could see is being able to switch it out for other services easier.
Truly the best group-chat platform I have used. It works extremely fast, and feels more polished and focused than whatsapp.
Whatsapp has too much going on, the fact that they store images/videos on your phone, and when you switch to different client or a different device your chat history does not follow with you. (I know you can "backup" and then "import" chats, but I mean come on.. thats a lot of work, not to mention you miss out on messages sent in between the switch)
And the most impressive Telegram? The search! Oh man the search... I have no idea how Telegram can index and search hundreds of thousands of messages INSTANTLY and take me back to a conversation I had over a year ago without so much as a delay.
Pavel, CEO of Telegram must be burning through money, but I really do hope they last.
Too bad the network effect is a thing, and also their approach to crypto might put you off.
It doesn't, anymore than whatsapp. Whatsapp says they have end-end encryption. Has anyone verified it independently? They say they use Signal's tech. Has anybody verified that the app doesn't just take screenshots of the screen and send them to facebook for data mining? When your app is closed source, all claims about security and encryption are meaningless, unless some solid auditing is done.
http://telegramgeeks.com/2016/02/telegram-only-shows-us-the-...
Really? Building and deploying a bot made in an arbitrary language is less onerous than registering for a Gmail account to send mail reports through?
Perhaps it's just the author's sense of humour, but this didn't strike me as helpful at all. Notifications can be handy for some things, email for other things. Depends on the person. But it's not hard to set up an email account. That's partly why it's still around.
My motivation is a little bit different. I made this because Telegram has great Android Auto support, and also has an easy to use Bots API, so I can convert non-Android-Auto-compatible notifications into Android Auto notifications. I explained my motivation in detail in a blog post. [2]
[1] https://github.com/fishy/notifbot
[2] https://wang.yuxuan.org/blog/item/2017/03/smartthings-myq-an...
I want to make a thing that will forward my SMSs to a webpage so I can read them online and I want to be able to start conversation, reply to conversations, etc. I want it to be open source and free.
I'm not really interested in making it, I just want it.