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Comment by sergimansilla | Hacker News Reader

Um, secret chats have been there for a long time.

It doesn't seem so: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/871

To clarify: secret chats have been present on Telegram as a platform for a long time. The desktop client doesn't seem to support them though.

This often leads to people saying things like "Telegram doesn't have end-to-end encryption". Really, what they mean is that it's not the default and isn't on all platforms. Most people can use it if they want to though because it's available on all major mobile OSes.

The desktop version has no encryption? Seriously, why should i use something like this in 2017?

What is this "Desktop Client", i don't get it -_-

I use the Telegram app on my OSX Laptop, and i use Secret chats. They seem identical to my Android secret chats. What am i missing?

Telegram desktop [1] aka "tdesktop" is the official telegram desktop client, it's based on Qt and it's cross platform (Windows, GNU/Linux, OS X). What you have been using must be "Telegram for OS X" [2], a different application entirely, which supports only OS X obviously. IIRC tdesktop didn't support OS X initially.

[1]: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop [2]: https://github.com/overtake/telegram

Interesting, thanks for the clarification! Seeing as OSX has secret chats, i may as well stick with it heh.

Somewhat strangely, that feature is missing from the desktop version.

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