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16,407subscribers

+115 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001858163560
TypeChannel
Username@WindscribeHQ
CreatedBetween 1 October 2022 and 30 September 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
First recorded7 August 2026
Last confirmed live17 September 2026
Measurements held31
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 17 September 2026
On Telegramt.me/WindscribeHQ

Topic

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 10 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 99% 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.

Growth

16,28516,40816,346.57 August 2026 — 16,292 subscribers7 August 2026 — 16,293 subscribers8 August 2026 — 16,304 subscribers9 August 2026 — 16,288 subscribers10 August 2026 — 16,287 subscribers11 August 2026 — 16,298 subscribers12 August 2026 — 16,294 subscribers14 August 2026 — 16,285 subscribers15 August 2026 — 16,291 subscribers18 August 2026 — 16,301 subscribers18 August 2026 — 16,306 subscribers20 August 2026 — 16,305 subscribers20 August 2026 — 16,312 subscribers22 August 2026 — 16,320 subscribers23 August 2026 — 16,324 subscribers25 August 2026 — 16,326 subscribers26 August 2026 — 16,340 subscribers26 August 2026 — 16,348 subscribers27 August 2026 — 16,351 subscribers28 August 2026 — 16,355 subscribers30 August 2026 — 16,366 subscribers31 August 2026 — 16,372 subscribers1 September 2026 — 16,373 subscribers2 September 2026 — 16,382 subscribers4 September 2026 — 16,384 subscribers6 September 2026 — 16,403 subscribers9 September 2026 — 16,402 subscribers11 September 2026 — 16,400 subscribers13 September 2026 — 16,404 subscribers15 September 2026 — 16,408 subscribers17 September 2026 — 16,407 subscribers16,4077 August 202617 September 2026
31 measurements spanning 41 days, net +115. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 16,267–16,426 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 31
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
17 Sept 2026, 11:1916,407-1
15 Sept 2026, 07:1616,408+4
13 Sept 2026, 16:1916,404+4
11 Sept 2026, 22:3816,400-2
9 Sept 2026, 14:3716,402-1
6 Sept 2026, 10:2116,403+19
4 Sept 2026, 04:5616,384+2
2 Sept 2026, 21:4816,382+9
1 Sept 2026, 16:5916,373+1
31 Aug 2026, 20:2416,372+6
30 Aug 2026, 02:5516,366+11
28 Aug 2026, 23:5616,355+4
27 Aug 2026, 23:5616,351+3
26 Aug 2026, 23:3416,348+8
26 Aug 2026, 02:4316,340+14
25 Aug 2026, 03:2816,326+2
23 Aug 2026, 23:2416,324+4
22 Aug 2026, 09:2616,320+8
20 Aug 2026, 21:3816,312+7
20 Aug 2026, 00:2516,305first reading

Engagement

18 posts held, back to 28 January 2026the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 54 pages 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 18 posts for this entry, the most recent from 20 April 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.

Reaction mix

3,134 reactions across 17 posts, in 40 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 40.4% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
1,26740.4%
😭47715.2%
🙏37912.1%
🎉2267.21%
👍1695.39%
👎963.06%
😢842.68%
🔥652.07%
💩581.85%
😁471.50%
🍾351.12%
🤣341.08%
🤔290.925%
🫡250.798%
👏200.638%
🏆160.511%
🤯120.383%
❤‍🔥90.287%
👌90.287%
🕊80.255%
20 further kinds692.20%

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 17 of the 18 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 3,134 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 18 most recent posts we hold, published 28 January 2026 to 20 April 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.

Recent posts

20 Apr 2026, 21:09 UTC≈143,000 views469 reactionsread 3 September 2026
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Celebrating 10 Years of Windscribe! 🎉 🎂 Today, April 20th, 2026, marks our 10th Anniversary. Some of you have been here nearly the full decade, others found us today. All of you make Windscribe what it is. Windscribe was started in 2016 because the founders looked around at the VPN industry and saw almost no good products. So they built one that was actually good. One for the users, built on real privacy principles

🎉226150🍾35😭19👎10🏆7👍6🫡6

14 Apr 2026, 22:45 UTC≈37,600 views468 reactionsread 3 September 2026
Poll

For users in Iran, after trying BOTH new configurations (H - Iran Experimental v2 and I - Iran Experimental v2), please indicate if they worked for you.

  1. H worked7%
  2. I worked5%
  3. Both configurations worked5%
  4. Neither configuration worked84%

Shares as published, totalling 101%. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

😭31968👎51🤣13👍6🏆4🤷‍♂4❤‍🔥3

14 Apr 2026, 22:42 UTC≈35,000 views297 reactionsread 3 September 2026
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We have begun adding some new anti-censorship configurations to our apps for users in Iran. Yesterday we tested the first version of this and it worked for a little bit until it was blocked as well. Today we are publishing new configurations after making some changes to see if they work. Early tests were promising but with the internet blocking in Iran being very aggressive, we cannot say how long these new configur

229🙏26👍16👎8🤣6💩3🖕3🫡3

1 Apr 2026, 00:39 UTC≈29,200 views96 reactionsread 3 September 2026
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Welcome to the new economy of unproductivity. Introducing FuttBux ($FBUX) - the cryptocurrency you earn by doing nothing! FuttBux is directly linked to your Windscribe data usage - the less data you use, the more FuttBux you earn! It's that simple, and it's already live, waiting for you to start doing...nothing! If you're a Pro user, you can now access your FuttBux balance on your Windscribe account page. What can

😁4623🤔14🌚4👍3👎3🦄2👏1

25 Feb 2026, 01:27 UTC≈47,800 views553 reactionsread 3 September 2026

If you find a combination of settings that work for you, please post it below so we can gather them and recommend options for others to try. Mention your Country, ISP, the Protocol, Port, Circumvent Censorship config selected (if using WireGuard) and the VPN location you're connected to. For example: Iran Irancell UDP Port 22 Germany Frankfurt Castle

🙏336116👍46🤣15👎13🔥12🖕4🥰4

24 Feb 2026, 23:04 UTCviews —

Windscribe pinned «We've been hard at work on the new anti-censorship measures in our apps which are implemented for almost everyone. The latest versions of our iOS and Android apps and the pre-release versions of the desktop apps have a new option to let you select WireGuard…»

24 Feb 2026, 23:03 UTC≈40,400 views87 reactionsread 3 September 2026
Poll

For Russian users, AFTER YOU HAVE TRIED ALL THE CONFIGS IN THE NEW APP VERSIONS ABOVE, select one of the options below. Do not respond unless you've tried the new configs.

  1. The VPN works all the time26%
  2. The VPN works sometimes29%
  3. The VPN never works45%

Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

48💩10🤔10😭9🤩5👍4😎1

24 Feb 2026, 23:03 UTC≈36,100 views102 reactionsread 3 September 2026
Poll

For Iran users, AFTER YOU HAVE TRIED ALL THE CONFIGS IN THE NEW APP VERSIONS ABOVE, select one of the options below. Do not respond unless you've tried the new configs.

  1. The VPN works all the time19%
  2. The VPN works sometimes28%
  3. The VPN never works.54%

Shares as published, totalling 101%. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

75👏9💩6🔥4🤔4🙏2👎1🥰1

24 Feb 2026, 22:59 UTC≈35,300 views130 reactionsread 3 September 2026
Photo

Images for the steps above

104🫡12💩5👌4🔥3💯2

24 Feb 2026, 22:58 UTC≈32,300 views223 reactionsread 3 September 2026

We've been hard at work on the new anti-censorship measures in our apps which are implemented for almost everyone. The latest versions of our iOS and Android apps and the pre-release versions of the desktop apps have a new option to let you select WireGuard configs that have shown to be helpful in connecting on various restricted networks. Required App Versions and Download Links Android v3.98+ Download latest vers

166🔥20👍14💩6👏5🏆4🐳2🗿2

28 Jan 2026, 22:11 UTC≈30,700 views167 reactionsread 3 September 2026
Poll

For Russia users, select one of the options below.

  1. The VPN works all the time19%
  2. The VPN works sometimes30%
  3. The VPN never works51%

Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

😢81😭5012👍8💩8👎4🙏2💊1

28 Jan 2026, 22:10 UTC≈29,700 views127 reactionsread 3 September 2026
Poll

For Iran users, select one of the options below.

  1. The VPN works all the time12%
  2. The VPN works sometimes41%
  3. The VPN never works47%

Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

😭8014👍9💩8🕊8👎6🙏2

Showing the 12 most recent of 18 posts we hold for @WindscribeHQ. 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.

Polls

The 6 most recent of 7 polls we hold for this entry, as Telegram rendered them when we read the post. A poll’s figures keep moving after that, so each one is dated.

14 Apr 2026, 22:45 UTCAnonymous Poll3,590 voters approx.

For users in Iran, after trying BOTH new configurations (H - Iran Experimental v2 and I - Iran Experimental v2), please indicate if they worked for you.

  1. H worked7%
  2. I worked5%
  3. Both configurations worked5%
  4. Neither configuration worked84%

Shares as published, totalling 101%. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

24 Feb 2026, 23:03 UTCAnonymous Poll1,530 voters approx.

For Russian users, AFTER YOU HAVE TRIED ALL THE CONFIGS IN THE NEW APP VERSIONS ABOVE, select one of the options below. Do not respond unless you've tried the new configs.

  1. The VPN works all the time26%
  2. The VPN works sometimes29%
  3. The VPN never works45%

Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

24 Feb 2026, 23:03 UTCAnonymous Poll1,920 voters approx.

For Iran users, AFTER YOU HAVE TRIED ALL THE CONFIGS IN THE NEW APP VERSIONS ABOVE, select one of the options below. Do not respond unless you've tried the new configs.

  1. The VPN works all the time19%
  2. The VPN works sometimes28%
  3. The VPN never works.54%

Shares as published, totalling 101%. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

28 Jan 2026, 22:11 UTCAnonymous Poll1,730 voters approx.

For Russia users, select one of the options below.

  1. The VPN works all the time19%
  2. The VPN works sometimes30%
  3. The VPN never works51%

Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

28 Jan 2026, 22:10 UTCAnonymous Poll1,970 voters approx.

For Iran users, select one of the options below.

  1. The VPN works all the time12%
  2. The VPN works sometimes41%
  3. The VPN never works47%

Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

28 Jan 2026, 21:39 UTCAnonymous Poll1,850 voters approx.

For users in Iran/Russia with connection issues, please indicate the platform you are primarily using.

  1. Windows41%
  2. Mac4%
  3. Linux5%
  4. Android69%
  5. iOS18%

The shares total 137%, above 100: this poll accepts more than one answer per voter. No per-option vote count is published, so the number of voters who chose each option is not derivable and is not shown.

Percentages only — there are no per-option vote counts here, because Telegram publishes none. The public post preview gives each option’s share and a single voter total, and nothing else. Multiplying one by the other would produce a per-option tally that looks measured and is not: the shares are rounded to whole numbers before we ever see them. We print what was published and leave the column that does not exist empty.

The shares need not add up to 100. Rounding alone puts many polls at 99 or 101. A poll that allows more than one answer per voter runs well past 100 by design, and several here do. The bars are drawn against a fixed 100% track at each option’s own percentage rather than normalised to the total, so a poll that exceeds it shows that it does instead of being quietly rescaled.

Read from the 18 most recent posts we hold, published 28 January 2026 to 20 April 2026. Telegram labels each poll by kind — an anonymous poll, a quiz, a closed set of final results — and that label is reproduced rather than paraphrased.

Mentions

Named by 1 registered channel — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.

Named by

Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.

A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.

Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels

The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.

Proton
@proton_privacy · 36,183
Telegram ranks this channel #10 of 83 here — alongside 82 others — read 31 August 2026

This channel appears in 1 seed channel's Telegram-generated recommendation list in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.

Cite this entry

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 17 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“Windscribe” (@WindscribeHQ), 16,407 subscribers as measured 17 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/WindscribeHQ.

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.