{"id":1420,"date":"2022-05-13T19:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/public-groups-and-channels\/"},"modified":"2022-05-13T19:00:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T16:00:09","slug":"public-groups-and-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/public-groups-and-channels\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Groups and Channels."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img style=\"display:none\" src=\"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/PublicGroupsandChannels300.jpg\"><htmlvideo style=\"display:none\" src=\"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/PublicGroupsandChannels300.mp4\"><div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1420-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" loop=\"1\" autoplay=\"1\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/PublicGroupsandChannels300.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/PublicGroupsandChannels300.mp4\">https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/PublicGroupsandChannels300.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><b>Public Groups and Channels.<\/b><br \/>\n<br \/>All groups and channels are <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/private-groups-and-channels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">private by default<\/a>, but you can <b>make them public<\/b> and open for any user to join or subscribe.<\/p>\n<p>Public groups and channels appear in <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/global-search\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global Search<\/a> results, can reach an <b>unlimited audience<\/b> and host <b>massive communities<\/b> for any interest \u2013&nbsp;from cats to cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>You must be the <b>chat owner<\/b> to change the group or channel type.&nbsp;<b>On Android<\/b> tap the <i>Chat Header &gt; <\/i><i><b>\u270f\ufe0f<\/b><\/i><i> &gt; Group\/Channel Type<\/i>. <b>On iOS<\/b> tap the <i>Chat Header &gt; Edit &gt; Group\/Channel Type<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Groups and Channels. All groups and channels are private by default, but you can make them public and open for any user to join or subscribe. Public groups and channels appear in Global Search results, can reach an unlimited audience and host massive communities for any interest \u2013&nbsp;from cats to cryptocurrency. You must be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}