There are the following relevant topics on Telegram connectivity desire. As far as I know, it is chosen by developers rather than Whatsapp, because only Telegram provides complete API. This question is important for me too, therefore I would like to post these links here.
Discourse Telegram Notifications Plugin
This plugin allows users to receive their notifications via a Telegram bot, allowing them to turn off email notifications and still keep up-to-date. ngrok a try).
This #howto describes how to setup the Telegram provider included in discourse-chat-integration.
discourse-chat-integration plugin
Telegram “Botfather” detailed instructions here
Make sure to copy the token that the BotFather gives you. It will look something like this:110201543:AAHdqTcvCH1vGWJxfSeofSAs0K5PALDsaw
https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-adding-whatsapp-share-feature/78571?u=ivan_rapekas
With the new IFTTT Telegram channel I’ve managed to set up an applet so everyone in a Telegram group can create new topics in a discourse category just by texting on the Telegram group.
###Why?
Because real time communications are noisy and most of the times you forget about the interesting stuff you share there. We wanted a way to “store” the relevant messages so we can elaborate or discuss asynchronously later.
###What would you need?
An IFTTT account.
A Telegram account and group (obviou…
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