Set up Telegram integration using the discourse-chat-integration plugin

[david (David Taylor)]

@mk0r

Do we generally have any control over the template/format of the messages in Telegram? I’m also not into the monospace font for the content

Yup, it can be customized! Check out this guide for details:

Customize any text in Discourse

In Discourse you can customize all of the text via the admin interface. Simply go to Admin > Customize > Text and you’ll be presented with a search page. [image] Search for the text you want to customize, click Edit then enter the new value. For example, I changed the “Dashboard” link to say “Evil Trout” here on Meta. After refreshing the page the text has been updated: [image] Need help identifying the strings to translate? See how to Find a translation key with verbose localization As …

@mk0r

the username in the Telegram message links directly to the user @michael on Telegram

If you modify the message template to wrap the username in backticks (`) then I think that should stop the auto-linking.