Pine64 forum vs other channels

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I think this is in the end not in the interest of the project. Would there any way to improve this situation?(snip)

Agree 100%, I will not use Telegram for several reasons, I suspect many of us who actively sought out a phone with a hardware switched radios and camera will agree with me.
It is like documenting a fix, hack, or project 100% on Google's youtube, I need to be able to use a search engine to find specific things in text.
Anything posted on Telegram, or even Signal(better; FOSS 100% clients and server, open secured crypto, not-for-profit NGO but tied to your mobile phone number) is lost to the community who will not install or use non-anonymous messaging clients, Telegram a for-profit corporation current raising funds through sale of bonds and a future stock IPO where it needs to show profitability uses a closed server and home-spun crypto so who knows if it is back-doored accidentally or by design.  At least neither are owned by facebook, though signal is one of whatsap's devs attempt to buy back his soul after selling out to one of the great privacy stealers.
In my opinion these forums and the community here should be the primary home for discussion on Pine64 related topics as talk.maemo.org is and was a large and active dev and support hub for Nokia Maemo Linux devices.  The existence of these forums was a factor in my decision to go with the pinephone(and other pine64 projects).

Another issue with Telegram is the phone number being tied to the username. Without making phone numbers public anyone can so called "spoof" another's username (without a way to verify properly). And as you also insinuated along the lines of privacy: many are not interested in sharing personal contact information like cell phone numbers with unknowns. I have no doubt bots collect user phone numbers (or at least could easily do so).

I mainly stick to this forum for Pinephone related stuff (and discord). I see Pinephone expanding use cases as time goes on/creative developments expand.