"Stories" in Telegram now work without a Premium subscription

Soon after beta testing Telegram opened opportunity to publishStories» for all users. Even if you don't have a Telegram Premium subscription, you can now post videos, photos, and text posts. True, there are limitations.

Without paying a subscription, the messenger allows you to post no more than three entries per day or seven per week. The maximum length of the text description is 200 characters, the story will hang in the profile for 24 hours.

Telegram Premium users have a number of advantages. So, their stories will always appear first in the list, even if the entry from the user without a subscription is more recent. Subscribers can also post up to 100 stories per day, save them to their profile for 6, 12, 24 or 48 hours of their choice, and add 2048 character descriptions.

The “invisible” mode remains a paid privilege: it allows you to discreetly view other people's stories. Also, without a subscription, you won’t be able to add links and format text and save stories to the device’s memory (if the author has allowed it).

Since August 14, the ability to publish stories without a subscription has appeared on iOS and Android, but it may take several days for the feature to be rolled out to all users.