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by NickBusey 2432 days ago
I created a Telegram bot for one of my apps, but had to remove Telegram from my phone/computer after their terrible handling of Facebook linking. I made the mistake of linking my Telegram account to my Facebook account, which gave me the wonderful 'feature' of getting a notification any time one of my (due to the linked account being promotional) thousands of friends joined Telegram. These notifications play at any time of the day or night, and there is no way to disable them. Removing the app was my only recourse as a chat app without notifications is pretty useless.
2 comments

Turn off contact sync in Telegram and delete your uploaded contacts.
You can also turn off new contacts notifications which is something I also hated and discovered recently that you can do.
Thank!