Secret chat

[vahid9]

I would be wonderful to create and send secret chats on telegram desktop.

[franzalex]

You're not the only one who would like to see this feature. As at the time I was posting this reply, there were 15 open issues asking for this.

Unfortunately though the developer does not intend to implement this in the near future.

[Choochmeque]

Cutegram has this feature ) So you can use it )
BTW, it also has Telegram theme ;)

Come to dark side =)

[Aokromes]

Cutegram crashes a lot XD i tried to use it to avoid images preview but crashed every few minutes.

[Choochmeque]

@Aokromes, thanx for information. We will do our best to reduce crashing.

[pwseo]

It seems like the best shot at this would be to fork tdesktop and implement secret-chats there. The main developer doesn't seem to care for Telegram's ability to "Encrypt" and "Destroy" messages (taken from their main website, under the "What can you do with Telegram?" header).
Sadly, I'm not a good enough programmer to do this (I can only hope this inspires someone).

The excuse given in other issues (which were closed) makes no sense; first, if one uses Telegram in both a mobile phone and a tablet (just an example) there will already be different secret chats in different devices and second, if one thinks people might get confused by seeing different secret chats in different devices, one would solve that problem by educating people on the reasons for such a behaviour, not by removing such a vital feature from some clients.

Until then, I guess I'll stick with cutegram, which, despite its flaws, seems to better reflect the whole concept of Telegram than Telegram's own official client.

[DerRidda]

I hope closing all these other issues means that this feature is being implemented.

[ZFake]

Telegram's most emphasized feature is security, it even could be said that it's main guideline of it's philosophy. So what is exactly TD's deal then — is it to create an inherently insecure implementation of Telegram?

[ntrlshrp]

Adding +1. My first and unqualified enhancement preference for Telegram Desktop (Ubuntu) is Secret Chats. Whether or not these are (1) device specific secret chats, (2) potentially group secret chats, or (3) potentially confusing, is of secondary importance. Thanks for all hard work!

[rene-s]

+1 ... Please start a bounty program if there are not enough funds to develop this. I like Telegram and I would like it even more if there were Secret Chats in the desktop clients. Regards

[topkecleon]

There is no justification for leaving out one of the most important features of Telegram of an official Telegram client. +1

[Tiim]

👍

[MACSOMIC]

to be honest this is one of the featuers thst brought me to telegram thanks for the hard work guys!

[lkhrs]

We need to keep the Telegram apps all on the same page in regards to features. There's no excuse really for having a fragmented feature set here.

[AAljmiai]

Well, I think this is vital feature that spouses to be in all platforms especially on Telegram desktop