Hey User, 

A warm welcome to your united Telugus community - a vibrant discussion forum and social network launched recently!

Sharing is caring! Please spread the word and share our community website with your friends and family...

Do introduce yourself in our Introductions forum to break the ice... It will give you a warm start.

Link to this Help page can be found in the Browse menu on the top and also in the Footer below.

Infrastructure: We use cutting-edge technologies on cloud infrastructure with highly interactive and modern features like Live CHAT, Forums (with filters), Q&A Topics, Topic Rating, Topic Voting, Themes, Blogs, Articles, Reviews, Star Ratings, Events/Calendars, Page Auto-Refresh, real-time feedbacks like live Notifications, Live Community features, "Who else is there on this page?", "Who is typing?"... (more features in the pipeline). You can see who else is viewing the same topic as you and see others responding to the topic live above the Comment box saying, "<User> is typing..." in real time (similar to how a Chat app works).

Themes (click here!) - available from the dropdown menu in the footer below, you can switch the themes at any time to suit your preference, ambience, time of the day or whatever is easy on your eyes. Explore our cool, warm, bright, dark, stealth, modern, contemporary, slick themes and have a TON of fun..

Also, please cast your vote on your most favorite Themes so we know which Themes are trending and what kind of Themes to develop in future for a better experience to you -
 

1. Darcula - a special, multi-tone theme with different colors for links (gold) and buttons (orange)
2. Neon Blue
3. Dark - a classy theme
4. Light (default) - a simple and elegant theme
5. Modern
6. Contemporary
7. Lavender
8. Barbie

If you encounter any issues accessing the menu items on your mobile device, tilt your device horizontally (landscape mode) and that should make it more accessible and resolve any issues. If there any issues while loading a page, simply refresh your browser. Keep an eye on your Spam folder for any of our emails ending up in it. Add our email address support[@]telugus.com to your whitelist. Clicking on the logo in the header, Forums menu item or the Home breadcrumb link under the menu all takes you to the homepage - Telugus.com. You can also reach us through our social-media accounts or our other domains (telugus.net, telugus.org, telugus.info, telugus.co, telugus.us, etc). Our site might go down at times (there is no hosting service with 100% uptime SLA) but rest assured, it will come back quickly, so keep checking back.

Do view the site on Desktop to see all the features like menus (Chat, NSFW, etc), Filter checkboxes widget (available only on the Forums homepage - Telugus.com), etc clearly with instant feedback. For instance, to filter topics by Hollywood movies, check the Hollywood Movies forum filter checkbox under Entertainment forum (you can check multiple forum filter checkboxes). Whatever filter selections you make in this widget persist across pages and when you re-visit or go back to the Forums homepage, the previously selected filters get restored. On mobile devices, things like menus and widgets need a bit more digging, diving and tapping around to locate/access them.

When the page is loaded, the page Title rainbow text on the top and the Chat button on the bottom-right pulsate/blink for 3 times (for 4.5 seconds and 3 seconds respectively). This may be useful when refreshing the page does not flicker or indicate a refresh on modern browsers when there are no updates on the page but you can see the page Title and Chat button pulsate for 3 times indicating the page has refreshed. If you hover your mouse or tap the page Title rainbow text above or the Telugus.com rainbow text in the signature below, they will pulsate infinitely.

NOTE

• topic/question = thread
• post = comment
• blog post = blog entry (in a blog)
• OP = original poster
• TS = thread starter
• LTT = lift this thread (Bump)

We serve cached pages (stale data) to Guest users. Signing in as a registered user unlocks many privileged features like Search content/members, Translate and view site in 133 languages, Content View Tracking (Viewed vs New content) and always displays LIVE data.

Items you can post/access in our Community as a registered user -

• Topics in Forums & Clubs
• Comments & Reactions
• Polls in Topics/Blogs & Vote
• Chat with & PM other members
• Status Updates
• Events in Calendars
• Create your OWN Blogs!
• Blog Entries in Blogs
• Articles and Reviews
• Search content & members
• Translate site pages and view
• Content View Tracking
• Live News section in sidebar
• Report for abuse
• Consume RSS Feeds
• Always view LIVE data!

With so many powerful privileges, there is no reason not to register and be logged in!

Login: If you wish, you can disable 2-Factor Authentication it in your Account Settings and use just email/password for login.

If you encounter any issues while registration and such, Contact us with your email address and provide details about the issue you are having.

We serve cached pages (stale data) to Guest users. Signing in as a registered user unlocks many privileged features like Search content/members, Translate and view site in 133 languages, Content View Tracking (Viewed vs New content) and always displays LIVE data.

Items you can post/access in our Community as a registered user -

• Topics in Forums & Clubs
• Comments & Reactions
• Polls in Topics/Blogs & Vote
• Chat with & PM other members
• Status Updates
• Events in Calendars
• Create your OWN Blogs!
• Blog Entries in Blogs
• Articles and Reviews
• Search content & members
• Translate site pages and view
• Content View Tracking
• Live News section in sidebar
• Report for abuse
• Consume RSS Feeds
• Always view LIVE data!

With so many powerful privileges, there is no reason not to register and login!

Account Settings - do visit your Profile > Account Settings and enable the optional Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) from the Security tab (you have to re-authenticate to access this page) using Google Authenticator or the simpler Question and Answer method (quicker and easier without using an app). After you login using the usual username and password, you are then challenged with these methods as an additional layer of protection and you can choose to answer one of them. You can also upload your profile photo and cover photo there to personalize your Profile page.

Another powerful preference in your Account Settings is Content View Behavior - try it out by setting it to "Take me to comments I haven't read" which will always navigate you to the unread comments in a topic when you click on a topic which will save you a ton of time!

Under Security & Privacy, you can Hide Your Online Status if you want to be anonymous/invisible to others while you browse the site. This will also not list your name under "Who else is there on this page?" and "<USER> is typing..." status messages on Topic detail pages.

You can also turn Off the Member Chat box from your Account Settings.

If you want to have your account deleted for any reason (even though we're confident you'll never find a reason for it on our Community), you can request your account to be deleted from Account Settings > Security & Privacy menu option yourself and follow the email confirmations. You can also request for your PII data from the same menu yourself.

Status Updates - you can post your Status Updates from the + Create (click here if you are logged in!) button on the top or import your Status Updates from Facebook or X (Twitter). To use the Status Updates feature, you have to enable it from your Edit Profile page first. Status Updates appear under Topic view on homepage and also on your Profile above Activity Stream.

Notification Settings - you are in full control of what notifications you receive, their frequency and also how. We've set them up optimally for you already. Head over and check these settings out - they are very powerful so you can laser-focus on things that interest you.



 

Follow / Ignore - you have the options to follow your favorite members from their Profile pages and ignore any users. Number of followers will add points to the member being followed so do follow the members you like to help them with their scoring higher ranks/badges. Feel free to use these power-features to your advantage.

Posting KEYWORDS in English: If the posted content is mostly in Telugu language, try to include translated English keywords in the Title if possible; otherwise, include English keywords in the Body. For instance, if "చంద్రబాబు" is in the Title, also add "CBN, Chandrababu" keywords to the Title and Body (Title is important because titles are always used in a search). This will make the topics "searchable" in English as most users will be searching for content using search terms in English language (not in Telugu language). Even you may not be able to search/find your own content after some time if there are no English keywords in the Title/Body if you cannot type exact words in Telugu as how you posted them.

Editing: If you wanna quickly edit the Title of your own topic/blog-entry/article/event that you created, simply hover your mouse over the Title and it will display a rectangle around the Title (if you are allowed to edit it) with a fade in/out pulsating display. Click and hold the Title and it renders the Title in an editable column where you can edit it and tab/click out to save the Title.

Post another item - after submitting a discussion or question topic, you are branched to the discussion/question detail page. On this page, clicking on the Start New Topic or Ask a Question link-button (above the title) will let you post another discussion/question in the same forum quickly (without having to select a forum).

Stock Replies - while composing your message in the editor, you can use the Stock Replies toolbar icon to insert quick replies with one click. If you have suggestions for more Stock Replies word, phrases or sentences, post them in our Feature Requests forum.

Copy / Paste - you can now copy and paste rich-text content across various themes like Dark to Light and vice-versa and it works fine.

• Paste As Plain Text - soon after you paste rich-text content, an option to "Paste As Plain Text Instead" appears at the bottom of the editor which you can use to convert the pasted text into plain text with one click. If the option to convert disappears, undo the paste operation and re-paste to make the option appear again.
   
• Undo / Redo - the editor has Undo and Redo buttons in its toolbar.
   
• Emojis & Keyboard Shortcuts - users become advanced/power-users quickly and love to use keyboard shortcuts without reaching out to the mouse for frequent actions. Inserting emojis into the editor can be done by typing a colon (:) followed by a search string (even one or 2 chars) and it will popup all the emojis matching the typed string - even the ones that don't display in the Emoji dropdown. You can click on one of them to insert into the editor.

  Our custom Emoticons start with "emoji-<xxxx>" and most of them are name-spaced facilitating sorting. For instance, typing :emoji-dance will bring up all the emoticons with dance in their names. Also try :emoji-lol, :emoji-flag, :emoji-computer, :emoji-bang, etc. Emojis can also be searched in the emoji dropdown's Search box. If you type :flag, it will bring up all the stock country flag emojis which means you can search and insert any emoji - not just the ones that are displayed in the emoji dropdown. Try :laugh, :smile, :face, :cat, :dog, :woman, :man, :police, :city, :pizza, :girl, :boy, :baby...

Posting Images - we've integrated our editors with Giphy and Pixabay image platforms to quickly search and insert high-quality images/memes into the editor while creating/posting topics, comments, blog entries, articles, events and more.

Integrations with Giphy and Pixabay

We've integrated our editors with Giphy platform so you can quickly search and insert high-quality, humorous images, animated images, memes and videos right from the editor's toolbar while creating/posting topics, comments, blog entries, articles, events and more that can add a whole lot of FUN and HUMOR to your content.

Giphy has over 1.7 billion daily users. Giphy is a GIF search engine and sharing platform that serves over 10 billion GIFs to more than 700 million users every day.

Here are some thumbnails of sample search on "animals" -

 

Inserted here from Giphy dropdown [GIF] in the toolbar -

 

 

 

 

 

Video - https://giphy.com/clips/therokuchannel-season-6-episode-4-the-great-american-baking-show-MtGY4FcgMmgzFXSXca

Search by "balakrishna" - https://giphy.com/search/balakrishna

Search by "brahmanandam" - https://giphy.com/search/brahmanandam

Stickers - https://giphy.com/search/brahmanandam-stickers

Search by "mahesh babu" - https://giphy.com/search/mahesh-babu

 

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Also, we've integrated with Pixabay platform so you can quickly search and insert high-quality images while creating new Blog Entries (posts), Articles, Events and Live Topics by clicking on the "Choose Stock Photo..." button. Here are thumbnails of some sample searches -

Animals

 

Nature

 

Waterfalls

 

Snowfalls

 

Christmas lights

 

Downtowns

 

Airports

 

Do also check our color-coded Emoji dropdown, Code, Stock Replies and Spoiler toolbar icons.

Further, you can post images by searching/uploading them from/to free image sharing sites and share their links here (sties like prnt.sc, imgur.com, imgbb.com, postimage.org are good). Currently, these links are supported and get embedded -

1	College Humor	13	ReverbNation
2	Coub	14	Screencast.com
3	Dailymotion	15	SmugMug
4	external images	16	SoundCloud
5	Facebook	17	Spotify
6	Flickr	18	TED
7	Funny Or Die	19	Twitter
8	Gfycat	20	Ustream
9	Google Maps	21	Vimeo
10	Hulu	22	Vine
11	internal links to content on our site	23	Wistia
12	Instagram	24	YouTube

TRANSLATIONS

💡 You can translate our web pages into Telugu, Hindi or any of the 133 languages listed below using the Language dropdown in the header to read them in the language of your choice for better understanding or if you are curious to see how the content translates into other languages (you should be Logged-in to access the language dropdown). For instance, you can translate our topics, articles and blogs into Telugu, Hindi, etc. and read them with ease. After translating a page, you can also hover or tap on any item to see its original/English version in a popup. Also, you can compose a topic, article, blog, etc. in English, Telugu, etc. and translate it into Telugu, English, etc. before submitting. You can also submit a topic/article/blog/event/etc., then translate the posted content, copy the translated content, edit the content, paste/replace content with the translation and save. Your language choice is remembered across pages and you can change the language or restore the English version at any time from the translation toolbar that appears in the header after translation. On mobile devices, you may have to tilt the device HORIZONTALLY to see the full translation toolbar.

NOTE: if you don't see "English" item in the Language dropdown to translate a non-English page (eg: page with Telugu content), first translate it into some other language and then you will see the "English" item in the dropdown.

Some portions of this site may not translate by design. Please refer to our Terms of Use page for legal disclaimer.

Languages Supported to Translate our Web Pages

Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bambara, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dhivehi, Dogri, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Ewe, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Guarani, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Konkani, Korean, Krio, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kurdish (Sorani), Kyrgyz, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Luganda, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Maithili, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Meiteilon (Manipuri), Mizo, Mongolian, Myanmar (Burmese), Nepali, Norwegian, Odia (Oriya), Oromo, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Sanskrit, Scots Gaelic, Sepedi, Serbian, Sesotho, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Tigrinya, Tsonga, Turkish, Turkmen, Twi, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, and Zulu.

Reactions - garnering these will build up your reputation. We have 8 reactions -

Love	Best
Like	Dislike
Haha	Wink
Confused	Sad

Do note that  Dislike,  Confused and  Sad reactions get zero/no reputation points - no need to be concerned when you get these reactions from others as they will not affect your reputation. All other reactions from others to your content get you 1 positive point for each reaction and build up your reputation.

Achievements - these are badges and ranks that could be awarded by a Moderator for great contributions or garnered automatically based on your reputation and points.

Badges - badges are based on a criteria or even something that may be manually added. For example, you may be awarded a badge by a Moderator for completing your profile or you earn badges based on your activity like if you made 100 posts:

1		First Post	2		Conversation Starter
3		Collaborator	4		Reacting Well
5		Problem Solver	6		Well Followed
7		Dedicated	8		Week One Done
9		One Month Later	10		One Year In
11		Very Popular	12		Posting Machine
13		Great Support	14		Helpful
15		Superstar	16		Great Content

Ranks - ranks are titles and images that are applied to you upon reaching a set number of points on our site. As you can see, it's not hard at all to join higher ranks quickly and you'll be climbing up before you even notice it!

NOTE: On other communities, it takes 13,000 to 16,000 points to reach Grand Master rank but on our Telugus community, is takes only 10,000 points which is WAY too quicker and a lot easier!

BADGE	RANK	POINTS
	Newbie	0
	Rookie	50
	Apprentice	100
	Explorer	200
	Contributor	350
	Enthusiast	500
	Collaborator	750
	Community Regular	1,000
	Rising Star	1,500
	Proficient	2,300
	Experienced	3,500
	Mentor	5,000
	Veteran	7,500
	Grand Master	10,000

Search - when you use the Search box on the top-right, remember to select the "scope" of your search in its dropdown like - Everywhere, In This Forum, In This Topic, etc. to laser-target your search. At times, it defaults the scope to like "In this Forum" or "In This Topic" based on where on the site you currently are (especially when you are inside a topic) and you may think the search returned no results or the search is broken. The default Search behavior for multi-word search is set to contain "ALL of the searched words" which will return fewer but targeted results. You can change it to contain "ANY of the searched words" if desired (returns too many results and hard to locate your targeted item). For single word searches, it doesn't matter which behavior you use.

NOTE: For posting a song, shorts, trailers, movies and reviews, suffix the Topic Title with #song, #shorts, #trailer, #movie and #review hashtags.

Google Search

Latest NEWS - a one-stop-page for ALL news (telugus.com/news - accessible from the top menu) with knock-out coverage so you don't have to go anywhere else for news:

1. Telugu Latest News 1

2. Telugu Latest News 2

3. Movies

4. Movie Reviews

5. Movie News 1

6. Movie News 2

7. Telugu Movie News

8. Technology

9. Personal Tech

10. Tech Reviews

11. India Top Stories

12. US Top Stories

13. US Politics

14. US Headlines

15. World

16. World News

17. Business

18.NRI

19. Favorite News (sidebar) - as a bonus feature, we've provided a section to add your own Favorite News feed URL to see its news! It displays some interesting news by default but you can click the Edit link in its header at any time to add/edit your favorite feed URL (leave it as EMPTY to see the default news). Favorite News section is visible to only logged-in users.

20. India Latest News (sidebar)

Favorite News (sidebar) - we've provided a section on Latest News, Live News and News Radio pages to add your own Favorite News feed URL to see its news! It displays some interesting news by default but you can click the Edit link in its header at any time to add/edit your favorite feed URL (leave it as EMPTY to see the default news). Favorite News section is visible to only logged-in users.

LIVE News - a few Telugu Live News streaming videos have been added to the sidebar of every page so you can keep yourself up-to-date with the latest news and happenings. You can click any of them and watch or listen (in the background) to the one that is interesting to you while you work and do your other stuff. This is equivalent to watching a TV - plus you can play these live streaming videos from any page with one-click, on-demand, rewind, fast forward, skip, switch and more - all right on your desk or mobile. You can maximize the videos to full screen.

A huge collection of THE best, nonstop, LIVE streams (60+) have been added to the new LIVE NEWS page in Telugu, Hindi and English in these categories:

News

Politics

Headlines

Andhra

Telangana

Doordarshan

USA

World

Cricket

Weather

Business

Finance

Stocks

and more...

You'll always find so many streams interesting to play, kick back and relax! You can also watch any of these streams or listen to them in the background while you work...

News Radio - click play and continue your work or other activities while listening to audio news! More audio news will be added soon...

The PLAYLIST has a Load More button at the bottom to browse and listen to more news.

Time & Weather

Podcasts

Adventures in Odyssey (AIO) Podcast

MOVIES - do check out our exciting new MOVIES module for Movies & TV Shows (telugus.com/movies - accessible from the top menu) with extensive -

Search

Submit a Movie - with just two clicks and all the movie info is automatically loaded including trailers, cast, crew, biographies, posters, similar movies...

Cast

Crew

Trailers

Posters

Images

Similar Movies

Comments

Reviews

Ratings

more...

You can also SUBMIT any movies and TV shows from the MOVIES page or +Create button from the top header for comments, reviews, ratings... Ideally, any movies should be discussed/rated/reviewed by adding the movie first using this new Movies module.

You'll also see the Movies widgets on our all other pages in the sidebar, top or bottom (carousel).

Have fun exploring movies, trailers, posters, cast, crew, reviews, ratings, comments... especially using one of our 3 DARK Themes (click) which brings images and videos to life! 😀
 

Movies page

 

Movie page




Movie Cast page




Actor Biography page


 

Live Radio - watch or listen to literally thousands (5,000+) of songs and nonstop LIVE stream music here in Telugu, Hindi and English (more soon). Choose from the BEST, latest, most viewed, top hits, beautiful, romantic, valentine, slow, soft, soothing, cozy, peaceful, relaxing, uplifting, calming, healing, rhythmic, fast, dance, party, study, chill, bedtime, sleep, devotional and more kinds of music. There is something for everybody and you'll always find many streams interesting to play, kick back and relax! If you have dual monitors, it would be a treat to watch the songs while you work.

• LIVE streaming music is indicated by 🔴 icon in their Titles. The PLAYLIST videos will play ALL the videos in the list continuously on clicking once. You can play any song in a playlist by accessing the Playlist dropdown button on the top of each playlist video. While playing a playlist, you can use the Previous or Next buttons in the video player to navigate.

Spoken English - Learn English in Telugu and English easily. The PLAYLIST videos will play ALL the videos in the list continuously on clicking once. You can play any song in a playlist by accessing the Playlist dropdown button on the top of each playlist video. While playing a playlist, you can use the Previous or Next buttons in the video player to navigate.

• Spoken English

• Podcasts

• Conversation

• Listening

• Practice

• Speeches

Spoken Hindi - Learn Hindi in Telugu easily...

Photos - The link for the Photos page is under the MOVIES dropdown menu on the top. The Photos page has literally thousands of celebrity photos (male & female). TIP: Due to thousands of photos, use Ctrl+F or Cmd+F or menu->Find to search for a name quickly!

Screensavers

Animals & Nature - relieve all your stress watching these serene and tranquil landscapes and beautiful creatures...

• Wild Life

• Animals

• Birds

• Sea Creatures

BLOGS - a Blog is like a YouTube channel and Blog Entries (posts) within the blog are like the individual videos within the channel which means only you can author Blog Entries inside your Blog while other users can only comment on your entries (similar to a channel, its videos and video comments). Blogs exist under YOU > Your Blogs > Your Blog Entries.

Also, our Blogs are like FREE personal websites owned by YOU that are hosted on our state-of-the-art AWS cloud infrastructure (just as our entire site is) at absolutely ZERO cost to you! Each Blog Entry (post) within a blog is like a separate web page on a website, create as many Blog Entries as you need in each Blog. You can create up to 5 blogs of your own which is like owing 5 websites for free with FREE traffic from our users and the internet (without the associated costs of domain registration/renewals, web hosting/renewals, website building, SEO expenses, server-maintenance headaches, hardware/software updates/upgrades/patching, backup/disaster-recovery/business-continuity strategies, sleepless nights, wasted time and blah... that come with owing websites). Using our Blogs as your websites, you can simply LASER-FOCUS 100% on just creating your content and be successful. With our free Blogs that load with blazing speed on state-of-the-art cloud infrastructure, you DON'T need a separate PAID domain and website that come with a ton of headaches, issues and expenses.

Our blogs are more user-friendly with content organization, searchability, communication, comments, reactions, engagement, SEO, etc. (like a website) compared to other social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc. that offer just a limited scrolling interface.

You can create your "own" Blog on Telugus.com and write Blog Entries within it (with photos) in the areas of your expertise. You are the owner of the blogs you create and the author of their entries while others can only comment on your blog entries. For instance, you could create a Story blog and write Stories (blog entries/posts) in it, create a Cooking blog and write Recipe entries in it, create a Movies blog and write Movie Review entries in it or create a Coding blog and write coding technique entries in it... If you are a writer, content creator, vlogger or an influencer like a YouTuber, Instagrammer or TikToker, you should consider creating a blog of your own here on Telugus.com for more SEO and followers. For each video (cooking, coding, tutorial, reviews...) you post on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, etc. you could add a Blog Entry to your "own" Blog with textual content (recipes, coding techniques, tutorials, reviews...) that are indexable by search engines and hence searchable and rank-able. After posting your blog entry, you can share the blog post on our Forums for more views.

Inside each blog, you can post individual videos, recipes, photos, reviews, tutorials, etc. as separate blog entries (posts) and share their links on your YouTube videos to engage them more. You could create a Requests blog entry/post inside your Blog and ask your followers to post all their requests as comments on the Requests blog post in one central location for easier tracking (compared to requests posted on individual videos that are hard to track). This will build your SEO and gain more traction with long-term benefits.

Blogs are so EASY to set up on Telugus.com with just a couple of clicks and you are off to start writing away entries in it as a writer in a few seconds! Note that you can schedule your blog entries in advance using Publish Date and Time (similar to how we can schedule YouTube videos to publish in future) which is very powerful to write a bunch of your blog posts well in advance and they get published automatically when the date/time arrives even if you are asleep. You can also use this feature to sync your YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and other videos to sync with your blog posts to publish at the same time in future! While creating blog entries within your own blogs, you can create your own Categories or select from the existing ones that you created before (remember, while creating Blog Entries in OUR Community blog (open to everyone), use the existing Categories - do not create any new ones).

Check out Madhuri's Recipes blog at -
 

NOTE: You can create a blog with the same name as an existing blog so if you wanna create a Cooking blog but there is already another Cooking blog created by someone else, you can still create a new blog with the same name "Cooking" or your YouTube channel name (blogs are identified by their IDs for uniqueness).

Please read our helpful and MUST-READ article on Article-vs-Blog linked below for complete info on when to use which and much more -

Articles - showcase your caliber by authoring articles on any subject. Articles exist in the global space and you are the author of the articles you write. Posted articles will also appear in the Topic listing under various forums like Discussions general forum for more exposure. Feel free to write Articles here in your area of expertise... And do check out our great collection of articles on various interesting topics which are building up on a daily-basis!

Events - check out our dozen+ cool Calendars from time to time for important events such as extensive listings of Telugu Festivals, Holidays of 5 countries (Telugu, US, UK, AU, CA), Movies, Bigg Boss, Cricket, NFL and such... This module is so interesting - you don't wanna miss it! You wanna check them out everyday as it becomes a habit 😀 For instance, for holidays alone, we have (add hundreds of events for Upcoming Movies, sports and other entertainment calendars to these numbers...) -
 

• 112 Telugu Festivals
•  52 Telugu Holidays
•   18 US Holidays
•    9 UK Holidays
•    7 Australia Holidays
•  10 Canada Holidays
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• That's a total of 208 holiday events every year
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Event Calendars - you can post Comments on any of the events in our dozen calendars and can add your own past/current/future events to Movies, Bigg Boss, Cricket and NFL calendars, Follow any event like regular topics and even set Reminders for a specified number of days beforehand to remind/email/notify you of any future/upcoming event... Events for the next 1 week appear in the Events sidebar widget. Events can be viewed as Overview, Month, Week, Day and Detail views. In Month, Week and Day views, you can view any individual calendar or All calendars. Event entries accept dates, times, single day, all day, recurring, title, description, cover photo (you can drag to reposition/center the photo after uploading and save) and YouTube videos in the description and comments. If you have a PNG, re-save/export it as a JPG file and upload the JPG for smaller sizes and faster page-loads.

When you click + Create (click here if you are logged in!) button and select Event, it displays a popup to choose a Calendar in which to create the entry in. For instance, try creating an entry in the Movies calendar... Check these calendar entries for Animal and Bhagavant Kesari movies in the Movies calendar for examples (click on their cover images to expand them).

Check existing events to see if it exists before submitting a new event. Events are moderated to avoid duplicates and keep our calendars clean.

Live Topics - these are live events our moderators, management or administrators will host on various topics on our community in real time. Attendees can chat and ask questions and the host and others can answer. After the live event has finished, the questions and answers will be converted into a forum topic.

Live CHAT (!) - Nope, we ain't kiddin'!! We believe the Chat module is our Killer Feature (we have plans to bring you more killer modules shortly). Chat away all day and all night to your heart's content in our Public chatroom (anyone), Stocks chatroom (members), Andhra chatroom, Telangana chatroom, do a 1-on-1 private chat with your favorite members or create private Group Chatrooms to invite members and have a BLAST - all in real-time. Keep in constant touch with other members of the community and share your knowledge, wisdom, interests, issues, views and opinions. You can multi-chat with others simultaneously in real-time. Messages in the Chatbox may be purged periodically so please save anything important somewhere else.

PRO-TIP: Use keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Enter or Cmd+Enter to send the message quickly (without having to click the Send button) and continue typing your next message!

Group Chat: From the Chatbox button on the bottom right, click its Hamburger menu and click Create New Group menu item, invite a minimum of 2 other members (excluding you) to start a Group chatroom.

In the Public chatroom, some messages are posted automatically when a new Member joins, others post a Topic in Forums, a Blog Entry, an Article, an Event, Status Update and more so you are kept well-aware of the happenings around this Community in real-time while you are deeply immersed in chatting with others. While chatting with others 1-on-1 (private Member Chat) or private Group Chat, you can select a different skin like the Default Theme and a Layout (Standard, Condensed, Bubble & Talkie) for each chatroom.

Chat widget is available everywhere on all open pages and can also be popped out into a separate window and they all sync in real-time. If you need any more chatrooms on other focussed topics, post it in the Feature Requests forum linked above.

NOTE: Due to some technical issues, we've disabled the Live Chat temporarily while we resolve them. We'll bring it back shortly.

Messenger - accessible from the header, you can send/receive messages to/from other registered members. When you send a message through Messenger to another member, they would also receive an email in their Inbox immediately (Gmail, Yahoo, etc) by default unless the member turned off Email notifications for the Messenger in their Notification Options. For most members, Messenger is a definite way to contact them because they would receive an email of your message (in addition to on-site/push notifications).

My Activity Streams - under Activity menu, you can create your own streams such as "Content I Started - 1 Week" and quickly select this option to search for your content in the last one week. For instance, when you go to Activity > Content I Started menu and filter the results by Time Period > Specified Time Period > 7 days, it gives an option to save the Search Criteria with a Timeline that you can switch to with just one click at any time which is very powerful. Saved activity streams are listed under Activity > My Activity Streams sub-menu > Custom Streams category. On this same page, under Stream Options button menu, you can set the current filter as your Default Stream which will add a  Content I Started - 1 Week link to the top-right under the Search box on all pages for quick access to the saved Search Criteria that fetches results in a Timeline with just one click which is super powerful. And you can edit the search criteria for this shortcut at any time.

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Other Links - has links to other news sites, Telugu states official sites, Telugu associations, information, Telugu songs, literature and more.

RSS Feeds - you can subscribe to our feeds (in the footer) and consume them in your favorite RSS Reader client apps such as Outlook and other apps. NetNewsWire (open-source), Feedly are some of the good, free apps on iOS and macOS.

Our Desktop Website

If you are on a mobile device and would like to see how our full-blown site looks like on a desktop/laptop, here are the screenshots of our homepage, Telugus.com in Darcula theme (tap/pinch to zoom) -

 

 

Remember to try our site and the CHAT module on your mobile phone and tablet - they look awesome!

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You can listen to our Audio ads on Mirchi Telugu radio.

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Our discussion on our Video and Radio ads

 

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As a company, we are legally not responsible for any content posted by users on our website. We have multiple moderators from around-the-world to monitor the site round-the-clock who have the ability to be login invisibly without others knowing of their presence on site. We have connections with Cyber Crimes in both TG and AP states and overseas who have highly sophisticated tools to investigate anything. These measures are in place for your safety.

Your use of our website constitutes your acceptance of our Terms of Use (do read at least the Guidelines on the top of our Terms page to know our simple rules) and Privacy Policy that are subject to change at any time without notice. If we make any changes, we will revise the Last Updated Date on these pages. It is your responsibility to check them out from time to time. If you do not want to accept any of these, do not use our website.

We hope our above efforts show how much we strive to provide you with a safe and decent environment (the way a Community is supposed to be) with so many powerful features (and more on the way... this is just our First Cut) for a quality time and a BLAST. So safe that you don't have to hide your gender signing up as a male when you are a female or vice-versa for the fear of getting abused by others. We expect that you participate in our discussions without resorting to any of the above abuse factors.

Cheers!

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