Secret chat

[Marocco2]

Are you going to add this feature? Thanks :)

Secret chats require offline message history and state storage, which is not done at the moment and is not in current plans. So even if they will be added it won't be very soon.

[Marocco2]

OK, thanks

[hanovra]

People use Telegram because of its superior privacy in comparison to other IM clients, such as Whatsapp. Most of the users value Telegram's superior encryption and most likely the Secret Chat is the killer feature that could boost the adoption of the program among a much, much larger base.

[0nse]

I agree with @hanovra. Although a doubtable encryption, secret chats are the reason for me and most of my friends to use Telegram and to refrain from the Desktop clients, which are missing it.

[Someguy123]

@telegramdesktop you're losing users to some anonymous Russian guy with a closed source app for mac. He's implemented secret chats, and a bunch of other features. I'm still skeptical because it's closed source, so I would love it if TDesktop would get secret chat ASAP, it would stop me from switching, and allow me to convince my friends to use TDesktop instead of the Russian-made closed source app.

[jonashaag]

This is a showstopper for us

[animalillo]

i also think this should be prioritized over most of the other stuff, secure chats its the most important difference between telegram and a lot of other messaging apps

[iworker]

+1. People need this feature. Secret chat is the main difference between telegram and other IM's (Skype, for example). It's the main purpose of all project "Telegram" – privacy. Secret chat is 200% privacy which is not available nowhere else.!

[ZhandosKz]

This feature must be realised, because security should be the major vector of development

[ByteShare]

I created a new request for this, sorry. I created #236
Why is this request closed?

[Marocco2]

closed because the author atm isn't interested to implement it.

[khloke]

I would love to get this feature too.

[SVSagi]

Everyone, I told about desktop telegram application did ask for the secret chat option, after they installed it. Still hoping for it.

[electricessence]

So it sounds like one of the challenges for this is that a secret chat can only happen from one client to another and can't be synchronized across multiple clients. I'm fine with that! Even if a secret chat can only exist for the current session!

This is a great open source implementation. I would like to contribute. How can I help? I would prefer to discuss a plan instead of forking and doing my own thing.