Channel
CTF Community | Hints
@ctfplay
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Cite this entry
1,010subscribers
-17 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001220832725 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @ctfplay |
| Created | 9 June 2019 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (TGDataset) |
| First recorded | 9 October 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 1 November 2026 |
| Measurements held | 14 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 1 November 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/ctfplay |
Topic
Hacking & security — 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 9 October 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 51% 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 the other topics.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Nov 2026, 10:06 | 1,010 | -1 |
| 26 Oct 2026, 16:07 | 1,011 | -1 |
| 20 Oct 2026, 17:34 | 1,012 | -1 |
| 17 Oct 2026, 19:51 | 1,013 | -2 |
| 14 Oct 2026, 20:46 | 1,015 | -2 |
| 11 Oct 2026, 14:56 | 1,017 | -4 |
| 9 Oct 2026, 01:18 | 1,021 | no change |
| 27 Sept 2026, 20:16 | 1,021 | -3 |
| 10 Sept 2026, 09:59 | 1,024 | -1 |
| 5 Sept 2026, 11:57 | 1,025 | -1 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 02:14 | 1,026 | -1 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 05:57 | 1,027 | -1 |
| 9 Aug 2026, 12:42 | 1,028 | +1 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 08:54 | 1,027 | first reading |
Engagement
Posts not read yet. This entry is on the register from its profile alone; the post reader has not reached it. Engagement figures appear here once posts have actually been measured — we do not publish a rate before we have the readings behind it.
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 1 November 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“CTF Community | Hints” (@ctfplay), 1,010 subscribers as measured 1 November 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/ctfplay.
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.