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> Telegram has a great UX,

And a great bot API. It's literally one of the easiest to use APIs I've ever seen. If you need a home-made solution to control something from your phone or even get push notifications, a Telegram bot is the way to go.

They also have an API which lets you make clients. That, on the other hand, is one of the worst APIs I've ever seen, but it exists, and you can't say that about most centralized and popular messaging solutions.

Because of that API, there's a great client for Windows 10 called Unigram, which is much more pleasant to use than all those Electron apps.

I suspect Unigram is the single reason why Telegram is so popular in the blind community, even though iOS accessibility is horrible, much worse than in most apps of this kind.



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