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To enable comments on your posts you can make use of Comments Bot. Search for “commentsbot” or follow the link http://t.me/commentsbot to find it.

Once started, you can send him a post that you want to attach a comments page to.

Send your post to the bot and it will return you the message with a menu.

Click on “Publish” and select the public channel you want to publish it to.

You will see a message starting with “@CommentsBot …” in the field where you type a message. A pop-up menu should come up showing your original message with a “Post with comments” label.

Click on the pop-up menu to post your original message with an “Open Comments” button, that leads to the comments page of the specific post.

When clicking on “Open Comments”, a web site is loaded with the post and a comments section.

ℹ Only users with a Telegram account are able to post new comments, but the comments page can be viewed by everybody.

? Make sure you subscribe to the comments page to receive notifications when someone has left a comment.

Replies to comments will also trigger a notification to the sender of the original comment.

ℹ The Comments bot can only add a comments page to text and photo messages.

? Unfortunately, link previews are not supported when posting with Comments bot.

? Controller bot, a bot for managing channels, supports link previews and has Comments bot integrated in its features. Explaining how to use Controller bot is out of the scope of this how-to. For interested people, please check out https://controllerbot.me/ and the F.A.Q. page.

To add the comments page of a post to the telegraph article, right click on the “Open Comments” button and select “Copy Link”.

In your telegraph website you can create an “Open Comment” link next to the post and set the link to the copied comments page URL.

People visiting the telegraph article can open the comment section of a post via the custom “Open Comment” link.

ℹ To get a centre-aligned text cycle through the different quote formats by clicking on the double quotes “.

Workaround for photo albums

Unfortunately, when trying to post a whole photo album with Comments bot the pictures are separated into single messages.

A nasty, but valid work-around is to take a screenshot of the photo album and use it as a single message for the comments page.

Take a screenshot of your photo album.

Send it as a single photo to Comments bot.

Then, the published message will look like below. The photos above the Open comments button are not the actual photos but only a screenshot.

However this comments page link can be used for the actual photo album post in the telegraph article. In the telegraph article, it looks like the comments page is associated to the photo album.

But actually, when opening the comments page a screenshot of the photo album is shown instead of the actual photo album.