Communicate In Telegram

Telegram

General

• We use Telegram for
• Discussions that need
  • Tight interaction (like a debug session)
  • Immediacy (e.g., "are you ready for the sync up?")
• Github Actions notifications from Telegram bots
  • E.g., regressions fail in one of our repos

Secret vs Regular chats

Secret

• We use secret chats for private one-on-one communication
• We prefer to send all the sensitive information using encrypted chats
• A Secret chat uses end-to-end encryption which means that even Telegram does not have access to a conversion
• How to start secret chat - see here
• Limitations:
• Telegram desktop version does not support secret chats so one uses secret chats only using his/her phone
• You cannot add multiple people to a secret chat, only one-on-one communication is allowed
• All secret chats in Telegram are device-specific and are not part of the Telegram cloud. This means you can only access messages in a secret chat from their device of origin.

Regular

• We use regular chats for
• General discussions within a team
• Group chats
• We do not share sensitive information via regular chats

Username

• We ask everyone to set a username so that is easier to find a person
• See the instructions here

Google meet room

• It is always nice to pin a google meeting room in a chat
• We usually use -> as an invitation to join a google meet room pinned in a chat