I am once again begging Telegram group owners to stop using the hilariously broken “topics” mode which makes chats borderline unusable

I wonder if it’s better on Android and it’s just the iOS/Mac clients that can’t handle them properly or something…

@Ninji It's just as bad on Android and in the web client. I'm in a couple of groups that use that mode and it's so annoying, buggy, and difficult to navigate...
@Ninji What difficulties do you have using them? I've never had any trouble (official client up-to-date on android)

@ibzan The @ and heart notifications that show up for mentions/replies and for reacts are horribly broken; sometimes they hang around even after I've seen the message, and most of the time tapping on them to jump to the relevant message just does nothing.

And on the Mac app, there's a pretty high chance that opening a topic or scrolling down within one will just show a loading spinner for 30-90 seconds

@Ninji We lost the history of the old Keyboard Furs group when the old owners insisted on enabling the folders feature, and deleted the group our of spite when it wasn't appreciated. :(
@Ninji It's absolutely fucking insufferable on android, linux, and windows.