Bugs and Suggestions

At the other hand, both features - related "Notification" (mentioned above) and original "Starred messages" could be implemented in more simple and broad way, giving users a way to use a new feature as they think it fits best for them.
For example, to mark a specific message (or replies thread) as important by the moment, and so that one is able to quickly navigate and check for updates (semi-manual notifications, I believe, it would not take much efforts to simply keep all the links on client side, let's call it - "track list").
So, surfing lots of group chats and even specific topics would be much more simple, probably. Or, imagine a special case, if someone, for example, asks a really important question in a group chat you want to know answers for. One could simply add the link to the track list and start tracking for replies. Event withouts notifications it's great feature.
But, probably, notifications could be made or redesigned in a good efforts/outcomes balance. Maybe anyone can make it the way that Telegram's UI stays not bloated, overwhelmed. Especially for new users.

I believe, that "Saved messages" is intended to be long-stored copy of everyting. Notice, that none of "saved" user message have a navigation link, even if they were originally posted in a group chat, no chance to navigate back to a thread or PM (clicking on user brings user's account info to the front view). Only channels posts have links. And it's strongly correct behaviour IMHO.
It's pushing us to the idea to have a separete entity for short-stored copy of anything important in the nearest feature.
That is a new extensible feature and a new "shelf" in user's mind and in experience model, with it's own use cases. (You can do notifications or whatever you want, reminders, for example - sticks to the idea of reminders in Saved messages, that we already have, do not mixing/bloating with everything we already have)

So, if user wants, he can just go short-memory or store it forever in long-memory, if all that stuff from short became really important. Even if you able to reimplement how Saved messages store data to be "ref-like" records, I want to have separete short-memory"track list" (probably with some new features, but just plain list is a win).

I think, all that thoughts on this feature gives much "mental food" to think of user experience, and could make Telegram even much better to better organized chatting, creating space for quick interactions, great observability and so on.

Please, don't be scared to read all of these.
Very Thanks!

Also, Pin for Me is not an option due to being tied to the specific group/chat. It's not an option to keep all pinned in one place. It would be a general mess of pinning and unpinning, choosing how to pin that message, also triggered by long tap or RMB click. Pinning is more like "I want this message to be important to a concrete related chat in general way", "That was important a month ago and will be important a month later" for messages, where that pin happen. My way to think of that feature. Let's not mix entities together in one big mess by providing a lot of options on how user can interact with a feature with a different original concept.
Not the way to "track" things and get some sort of notifications on them/

I've just checked pinning in private group, pin works for everyone - everyone is able to see I pinned a msg.

Hamidreza Mar 10

yes this can be very good. specially if implemented in group chats too. for example i have a friend group and sometimes some of us are not online and we chat so much that the important parts of our chat gets lost there. an ability to bookmark the important ones will help them not wasting their time

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