Brandon

It’s a messaging app with some light social features built in. https://telegram.org

@Sjustice you can follow it on telegram and you won’t get any other accounts or recommendations

Are most of you guys who use ig/tt reposting the jw_pressroom posts? how do those in your congregation feel? I’ve noticed many in my cong have not even looked at our official socials yet

Not sure when this happened, but our TikTok account reposted someone else’s post:

That sounds right

I found that really striking too, and wanted to share it with others. But I decided to first fact check it since I’m not too familiar with the people behind this bitterwinters website. ChatGPT says they have really editorialized/misunderstood what the report actually said about persecution towards us. It may need some further nuances added before we go around claiming it as objective fact. If it turns out to be wrong, it would make us look bad, as though we were taking liberties with facts in order to wear “most persecuted religion (for our size)” as some kind of badge of honour. If it does turn out to be true though, it could make people take notice of us.

Well you should know the majority of Protestant churches are very pro lgbt, especially in wealthy/developed countries. Catholic Church has been moving in that direction but much more slowly. The other large branch of Christendom is orthodox.

They have now posted a second link to the socials, without posting it to the “what’s new” section. It’s also not in the JW.org RSS feed. It seems pretty clear this is intentional. But why tell us we don’t need to subscribe to the socials in order to keep up to date with everything new on our website, when clearly it’s necessary? This articles can’t easily be found without regularly checking the Global Communications / Pressroom page.

If you click the button here, it will try and show you how you are related to Charles Russell: https://www.geni.com/people/Pastor-Charles-Taze-Russell/6000000014487889313 you may have to click and wait, and then also choose the in-laws option and search again

The latest social post seems to link to an article on JW.org that is not even listed in the What’s New section of our website 😳 (and therefore not in the RSS feed!) I thought they specifically told us to keep using jw.org — but now JW.org is falling behind the social posts? here’s the article in question, for those who don’t have ig/tt: https://www.jw.org/en/global-communications/country/bulgaria/European-Court-of-Human-Rights-Unanimously-Affirms-Freedom-to-Peacefully-Share-Faith/

There’s an unofficial app for android tvs. I Forget what it’s called. Not sure if Samsung supports Android tv apps anyway tbh edit: found it again https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.com.dok.mjd.mpfjwb

Is it going to fix all these bugs on iPadOS 26/27: https://jwtalk.net/topic/63127-jw-library-bug-ipados-26-ipad-mini/

Here’s another screenshot showing how the new top buttons stay visible when using “full screen” option in JWL:

iPadOS27 adds even more bugs to JW Library: this screenshot really does not do it justice. When resizing the window, the buttons move from the usual bottom to the very top (as you can see). The bug regarding having the iPad in “upside down” orientation intersects with this new difference in UI placement so now it’s almost impossible to “reset” the buttons back to normal spacing (even when the window is small enough to display them at bottom). The media player and optional “full screen” setting in JWL add even more display bugs that cut across the other issues…

I’ve been using socialblade.com to track both of the official accounts. It shows how many followers are added each day, and lots of other statistics.