Do you disable notifications (in a topic) after a certain period of time?

[Charles-Tim]

As for telegram, I know that it is required for you to give your phone number in order to register. Does the bot owner know it or any other private information about you (like email address)? I've made a telegram, but I'm a newbie.

I think your number is safe and not revealed. Even on your telegram setting, you can be able to disable your phone number to be revealed to only your contacts, or not to be revealed to no one, if it can be revealed to bot without warning, it should have been on the setting.

Some bots need extra data from the user to work properly. For example, knowing the user's location helps provide more relevant geo-specific results. The user's phone number can be very useful for integrations with other services, like banks, etc.

Bots can ask a user for their location and phone number using special buttons. Note that both phone number and location request buttons will only work in private chats.

So, I think even if a bot will need access to your phone number, it will request for it and you will need to grant it access before it can be able to.

[shield132]

I was wondering if you do what I do too when there're lots of replies posted under my last post. I kinda find it annoying to be constantly notified from shitposters and thus, I unwatch the thread and disable the notifications. The downside (it's only one  ) is that I may miss a high-quality post from someone who may have quoted me.

Why don't this forum just notifies the users if they get quoted? Isn't it an obvious “must”?

Oh, it's so annoying. Back in 2017 I created a thread named - Will we ever see bitcoin lower than 1000$? and it got up to 20 page in just 17 days. My real intention was to really discuss about this but as I see, it was filling with nonsense posts. I think you should always leave notifications enabled on threads where you don't expect a lot of posts and where mostly quality members will post. Otherwise, when there is discussion about global things, always expect spammy posts.

Notification on forum when someone replies to you or writes your name is a must but I guess we can't get it, especially when this forum works very differently. When you quote someone, it's just plain text and that's all.

Your question sounds like when will we get a new forum software?