Our sincerest condolences to the Vanced project.
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Signed Austin Huang
Channel
@barinsta_updates
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Handles named that no longer answer · Cite this entry
246subscribers
-7 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001499471010 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @barinsta_updates |
| Created | 25 May 2020 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (TGDataset) |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 7 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 6 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 7 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/barinsta_updates |
Technology — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 23 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 50% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Oct 2026, 18:18 | 246 | -2 |
| 5 Sept 2026, 14:39 | 248 | -1 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 22:55 | 249 | -3 |
| 13 Aug 2026, 01:34 | 252 | -1 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 02:03 | 253 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 00:16 | 253 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 6 January 2021 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 13 March 2022. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
56 reactions across 5 posts, in 5 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 73.2% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 😢 | 41 | 73.2% | |
| 👍 | 6 | 10.7% | |
| 🕊 | 6 | 10.7% | |
| 🤯 | 2 | 3.57% | |
| 👏 | 1 | 1.79% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 6 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 56 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 6 January 2021 to 13 March 2022, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Our sincerest condolences to the Vanced project.
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Signed Austin Huang
https://austinhuang.me/barinsta
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Signed Austin Huang
At this point you should all be aware of Inst*gram's malicious practices. Now, encourage others to move to the FOSS fediverse (ie. Pixelfed, Mastodon, etc.)!
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Signed Austin Huang
Channel name was changed to «Barinsta - That App on Android»
Channel photo removed
Hello, At approximately 21:33 UTC July 26 2021, I have been hit with a cease & desist letter from a law firm repsenting Facebook. The letter was sent to one of my personal email address as well as Barinsta's public inbox (and as a result, it is published). In response, the source code has been taken down, and all promotional materials within my control has been adjusted to reflect the fact. We will still try to get…
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Signed Austin Huang
They did a cease & desist on us. We're done. Thank you for your continued support. See the letter.
Signed Austin Huang
https://github.com/austinhuang0131/barinsta/releases/tag/v19.2.4 Reminder that beta builds are available at @BarinstaBuilds. Also, we need more developers! If you have the required coding skills and a heart for serving the public, come join us!
Signed Austin Huang
If you can write fluently in a foreign language and in English, please contribute translations to Barinsta! https://crowdin.com/project/instagrabber
Signed Austin Huang
https://github.com/austinhuang0131/barinsta/releases/tag/v19.2.3 Reminder that nightly testing builds are available at @BarinstaBuilds.
Signed Austin Huang
Two things: 1. v19.2.2 will be delayed for F-Droid due to an issue on their side, which affects some other apps as well, and I will communicate to them. 2. A reminder to not download any unauthorized copies of Barinsta on Google Play. Please continue to report those as you see them.
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Signed Austin Huang
https://github.com/austinhuang0131/barinsta/releases/tag/v19.2.2 Unrelated but important: If you're Canadian (citizen or resident), consider looking up Bill C-10, then sign this petition.
Signed Austin Huang
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @barinsta_updates. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
@barinsta_updates named 1 handle that resolve to nothing today. That is a fact about the reference, not necessarily a fact about the handle’s history — see the two groups below.
Most of these may never have existed as a live channel at all. A handle a channel names can be a typo, an aspirational name nobody registered, or a channel that was already gone before this one ever mentioned it. Unless a row below is marked evidenced, all we know is that it references a handle that is not a live channel today — not that anything “died”. How this is measured.
References a handle that is not a live channel — we have no record it ever was one.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 7 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Barinsta - That App on Android” (@barinsta_updates), 246 subscribers as measured 7 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/barinsta_updates.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.