Read to the end of your unread channel posts and pull up, and Telegram offers to carry on into channels you do not follow. Search has a channels tab doing the same thing.
That is a feed with no bottom, in an app whose main virtue was having one.
What you will be able to do
- check_circle Find the recommendations deliberately when you want them.
- check_circle Recognise the gesture that starts an endless feed.
- check_circle Keep reaching the end of your reading.
- check_circle Judge what the suggestions are based on.
Pulling up past the last unread post bridges into channels you have not subscribed to.
all_inclusive The end of the list was the feature
The reason a chat app feels different from a social feed is that it finishes. You read the new posts, you reach the bottom, and there is nothing more — which is an experience almost no other application still offers.
The pull-up changes that on purpose. Past the last unread post there is now more, drawn from channels you never chose, and the gesture for continuing is the same one you were already making. It is well built and it is exactly how an endless feed starts.
None of that makes it bad. Used deliberately — opening search when you want something new — it is genuinely the best discovery tool the app has. The thing to notice is the difference between going to look and being carried on.
Four ways to meet it
Two of them you chose and two of them happened to you.
search Going to look
swipe_up Being carried on
timer Keeping the bottom of the list
campaign If you run a channel
Go and look when you want to. The pull-up is a feed, and a feed does not end on its own.
settings Using it well
- Open the channels tab in search When you actually want something new.
- Read your own subscription list there Most people have never seen it.
- Notice the pull-up for what it is The point where catching up becomes browsing.
- Stop at the end of the unread posts That is the natural bottom.
- Unsubscribe from what you skip A shorter list finishes.
- Read a week of posts before joining The list is a suggestion, not a recommendation.
This page is about a feed that does not end. The curriculum step is the structure that gives it one: folders separating channels from conversations, what belongs in each, and building a Telegram you finish reading.
At a glance
- 1Recommendations
Pulling past your last unread opens suggested channels.
- 2Same gesture
It feels like reading on, so notice when you have left your list.
- 3Reach the end
Unsubscribe from channels you skip.
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