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Telegram: What Happened
9 years ago
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This is from my previous journal, an answer to someone else, posted here for reference.
In short, I installed Telegram over my lunch break. I got back to my desk at the office and installed it, there, too. I tried it out while doing some work. Then, just as I put my notification up, here on FA, we had an emergency. I needed to do some coding very fast for a very big client, under a lot of scrutiny. I tried to do what I normally do: turn off or set myself as "away" or "do-not-disturb". I do this with all my chat/social clients.
Telegram, I discovered, doesn't have such a setting.
As everything started burning around me, as I had to get the code finished and out the door, alerts and messages kept popping up and I couldn't figure out how to stop them. I quickly figured I'd have to shut off the program, which I did. My boss came over to see how I was doing and, in the middle of showing him, a ton of message alerts popped up. Apparently, even though I had checked the system tray, there was still a process running, somewhere. Additionally, my phone kept chirping at me telling me about every new Telegram I received.
Basically: it got in the way of my job at the worst possible time, kept distracting me, didn't provide me with a way to easily shut it off or hide myself from activity/alerts, and proved to be non-intuitive as for how to shut off all processes with a single switch or button. I literally, on each device upon which it is installed, have to go into "Settings", find the appropriate alerts, switch them off, and figure out how to turn off the system tray when the program is shut down. This undermines "quick and easy".
It's my own fault for installing the damn thing to begin with. I'm trying to keep up with my friends so I can communicate readily. And I installed a program with the assumption that it had basic features that it didn't have. The one positive thing about it is that unlike Twitter and other social media programs, the images it displays are large enough that I don't have to squint to see them through my bifocals.
I'm not fond of Telegram, now: I made mistakes and it has some very fundamental features missing. I'm probably not going to be online much, today, because I need to focus on work and try to repair my damaged reputation at the office.
I may or may not go back to it. We'll see.
Yours,
Sylvan Scott
In short, I installed Telegram over my lunch break. I got back to my desk at the office and installed it, there, too. I tried it out while doing some work. Then, just as I put my notification up, here on FA, we had an emergency. I needed to do some coding very fast for a very big client, under a lot of scrutiny. I tried to do what I normally do: turn off or set myself as "away" or "do-not-disturb". I do this with all my chat/social clients.
Telegram, I discovered, doesn't have such a setting.
As everything started burning around me, as I had to get the code finished and out the door, alerts and messages kept popping up and I couldn't figure out how to stop them. I quickly figured I'd have to shut off the program, which I did. My boss came over to see how I was doing and, in the middle of showing him, a ton of message alerts popped up. Apparently, even though I had checked the system tray, there was still a process running, somewhere. Additionally, my phone kept chirping at me telling me about every new Telegram I received.
Basically: it got in the way of my job at the worst possible time, kept distracting me, didn't provide me with a way to easily shut it off or hide myself from activity/alerts, and proved to be non-intuitive as for how to shut off all processes with a single switch or button. I literally, on each device upon which it is installed, have to go into "Settings", find the appropriate alerts, switch them off, and figure out how to turn off the system tray when the program is shut down. This undermines "quick and easy".
It's my own fault for installing the damn thing to begin with. I'm trying to keep up with my friends so I can communicate readily. And I installed a program with the assumption that it had basic features that it didn't have. The one positive thing about it is that unlike Twitter and other social media programs, the images it displays are large enough that I don't have to squint to see them through my bifocals.
I'm not fond of Telegram, now: I made mistakes and it has some very fundamental features missing. I'm probably not going to be online much, today, because I need to focus on work and try to repair my damaged reputation at the office.
I may or may not go back to it. We'll see.
Yours,
Sylvan Scott
^..^;
That'll go over like a lead balloon. (Hey, that'd be a good name for a band- oh, wait, already taken. Kick-ass band, though.)
...yeah, so fuck Telegram.
;)