> web.telegram.com redirects to www.usatoday.com

... why?

> The point on blocking still remains

That would be a cool feature - they take feature requests at https://bugs.telegram.org/ - I'm not aware of any competing apps that have it so it's possible noone has requested this before. Seems novel.

> I'm not aware of any competing apps that have it

Discord has that, though I wouldn't call it Telegram's competitor

> I'm not aware of any competing apps

twitter?

> Why?

Telegram.com belongs to Telegram & Gazette, a newspaper owned by Gannett. Gannett also owns USA Today.

The Telegram app has always used Telegram.org.

> You probably meant web.telegram.org which is well hidden and nowhere to be found on their web site so I didn't know about it.

It's not hidden, it's right there in the list of apps along with everything else: https://telegram.org/apps

> The point on blocking still remains. You wouldn't have solution for that as well? :)

Some custom clients allow you to block users in group chats (and also can filter out spam in channels). Depends on your platform though.

Yeah, now that I know it exists I can find it. Yet on the main page where all the telegram client downloads are it's absent: https://telegram.org/

I guess I didn't think I need to search for the web site in the Apps.

It's at the bottom of the page in the footer - links to https://telegram.org/dl/web ;)

You're correct. I guess this sort of UI didn't work for me. I learned to ignore footnotes for anything useful.