Telegram group
A Telegram group is a many-to-many chat: every member can post, reply, and see the full message history, unlike a channel where only administrators publish and subscribers only receive. Groups top out at 200 members before Telegram requires converting them to a supergroup, which unlocks admin roles, pinned messages, and — if forum mode is enabled — topic-based sub-threads. Autogram automates channels, not groups: the broadcast, one-to-many model is what a scheduled or AI-generated post publishes into, and a group's open, conversational structure has no equivalent publishing queue to target.
Groups versus channels, concretely
The API distinguishes them as different chat types (group, supergroup, channel), and the difference is behavioral, not just a UI skin: any member of a group can send a message that every other member sees, while a channel post can only come from an administrator (human or bot) and channel subscribers cannot reply in the channel itself. A community discussion belongs in a group; a publishing feed belongs in a channel.
Supergroups and their limits
A regular group is capped at 200 members; past that, Telegram converts it to a supergroup, which supports up to tens of thousands of members, admin permission levels, message pinning, and slow mode. A supergroup can also enable forum mode, splitting the chat into named topics — a structure closer to a discussion board than a single stream.
Why Autogram automates channels, not groups
Autogram's scheduling, AI content generation, and analytics are all built around the channel's one-directional publishing model: one administrator-controlled feed, an unlimited passive audience, and per-post view counts. A group has no equivalent 'queue' an automation tool publishes into — every member can already post directly — so the product surface Autogram automates is the channel, not the group.
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