Merge new closely consecutive messages from one author with older message without triggering new sound notifications.

[Atokulus]

The problem: A lot of group conversation members write many line-wise part-messages rather than full multi-line messages. This results in an annoying spam of sound (& vibration) notifications, leading in a rather painful Telegram experience.

The solution: Merge new line-wise part-messages if they are still in a certain time threshold (e.g. 5 seconds) with the old message. Do not trigger a new sound notification.

Additional Thoughs: Such an enhancement SHOULD be available on every Telegram Client (and MAY be eanbled through settings). There could be even a way to trigger a sound notification only in case of a new message subject: E.g. My mates trolling about ponies for 5 minutes SHOULD trigger only one sound notification IF I did not open Telegram during this message subject.

Or the Clients could be aware of the Users attention (mouse movements, selecting the client window) to trigger closely following sound notifications only in the user's presence.

Last but not least, devices on the same LAN should synchronize their notifications and sound triggering.

[Aokromes]

I like the idea :)

[pdonadeo]

This has been implemented in Telegram for Android today, it's called "smart notifications".

I think this is really the killing feature for people like me who have several chats with 20-120 people.

:+1:

[irisfofs]

Just implementing the same notification rate-limiting as the Android app's "smart notifications" --- per-chat configurable "Sound at most X times in Y minutes" --- would be excellent.

When I just have my phone then other people having conversations in group chats doesn't bother me, but on my desktop I basically have to go in and temp mute the chat if I want any peace.

[5ulo]

I ca't find "smart notifications" in Telegram settings. Where is it hidden?

[stek29]

@5ulo if you're talking about Android app, it was removed for everything but channels. It's hidden somewhere in channels profile.

[5ulo]

@stek29 I was redirected from #3244 which was closed as duplicate.. So now I am confused..

[stek29]

@5ulo I know :) Smart notifications never existed in TDesktop, and they were partially removed from Android app.

[5ulo]

@stek29 thanks for the info. So I must wait for implementing this two year old request or hope, that some of the alternative telegram clients will have this functionality.

[stek29]

@5ulo Yup, you're completely right. You can also implement it on your own and make a PR.

[WhyNotHugo]

I see that #934 and #7450 have been merged into this issue, but they're quite different things.

I opened #7450, and that's related to the libnotify integration (or other platform's equivalent). This feature is not really related to implementing that; that request and this one are entirely separate and can be implemented independently. I also don't use sound notifications, so this issue is not relevant to me.

Maybe one of these issues can be reopened?

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[WhyNotHugo]

I'm not interested in this feature, but I am on #7450 (which is entirely different).

However, since #7450 has been merged into this issue, I'm still interested in this.

[GlassedSilver]

cough

This is still needed. :/

[Guedez]

It has been over 8 years, why is this still not a thing on telegram desktop?

[enpinzolas]

it's lovely how other similar issues keep popping up and get closed because they are similar to this one, but then nothing is done about this one to remedy anything.

[argium]

Using Telegram Desktop 5.14.3 on macOS.

In a regular chat, if the other person sends 3 messages back to back (within the span of 3 seconds) I have 3 notification sounds play and 3 notifications swipe in. It's the sounds that are annoying. In no way is it necessary to play more than one notification sound that soon after the previous one. Can we set a limit to say 1 notification chime every x seconds on a per chat, and max # of chimes per y seconds overall?

All I need to know as a user is that there's something in the app that I need to check and there are better ways to indicate how many messages there are waiting for me other than the number of chimes.