Astrogram Features

Astrogram is not only a plugin host. Part of the project lives directly inside the desktop client.

Settings home

Astrogram-specific client functionality is intended to live under the Astrogram settings area instead of being scattered through unrelated Telegram settings pages.

Current direction:

• Astrogram entry point in settings
• plugin entry point
• links and support entry points
• privacy and experimental desktop-native features

Client-side features vs plugin-side features

Some things belong in plugins:

• optional visual experiments
• network-backed helpers
• user-installable utilities
• rapidly changing prototypes

Some things belong in the client:

• anti-recall behavior inside the message list
• ghost mode and deeper privacy hooks
• local premium UI overrides
• settings shells and global branded entry points

Why this split matters

If a feature needs:

• MTProto/session-level interception
• message rendering changes
• global navigation changes
• guaranteed startup behavior

it is usually a client feature, not a plugin feature.

Current built-in focus areas

• branded Astrogram settings home
• plugin manager UX
• safe mode and recovery handling
• anti-recall data retention and tooling
• deeper privacy toggles

Relationship to donor projects

Astrogram can borrow ideas from AyuGram and other Telegram forks, but desktop-native integration still needs to fit the Astrogram client architecture and plugin runtime.

That is why some ideas are shipped as built-in features while others remain plugins or examples first.