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by saagarjha 2509 days ago
> All clients are fully open source

They’re literally not. The distributed apps update every couple of weeks or even more often while the source they push lags months behind, if it’s even what’s being used to build those binaries.
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sschueller 2509 days ago
This package [1] on f-droid is built directly of the source on github [2]. Even if the source is old so is the package. F-droid compiles this package not telegram.

I wrote the peertube client Throium which is also available on f-droid [3]. When I Tag a new release on github, f-droid will build the package automatically and publish it the next day. I do not build the packages for f-droid.

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.telegram.messenger/

[2] https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS

[3] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.schueller.peertube/

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pyt 2508 days ago
I gave up tracking the delay a while ago but I think the macOS and iOS packages were lagging by six months at one point. Heck, even now the last commit with actual code [1] is over two months old yet the macOS app updated two days ago for me.

Uncommented code is dumped into the GitHub repo every couple of months after enough people complain. That's not what I would call open source.

[1] https://github.com/overtake/TelegramSwift/commits/master

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saagarjha 2509 days ago
I’m mostly referring to the macOS and iOS clients, since I’m not really familiar with the Android version.
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