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Most networks connect an account and you post as that account. Telegram and Slack connect a place — one chat, one channel — and Nylon posts into it as an app. Connecting a second channel means connecting again.

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Telegram

Telegram has no permission screen, because a bot cannot be told about a chat from outside. It has to be added to the chat, and somebody has to speak to it.
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Start the connection in Nylon

In Connections, choose Telegram. Nylon shows the bot to add and a one-line command to send. The command is good for 15 minutes.
2

Add the bot to your chat

In Telegram, add Nylon’s bot to the channel, group or chat you want to connect. Make it an admin — without that it cannot post.
3

Send the command in that chat

Paste the /connect … command as a message there. The bot replies to confirm, and the chat appears in your connections.
Every Nylon connection posts through the same bot, so there is no token to store and nothing to reconnect when credentials change. Posts and replies appear as the bot, not as a person.
Telegram is also the network the inbox is live on. Messages sent in a connected chat arrive there from the moment it is connected — there is no history, because Telegram does not offer a bot anything that happened before it joined.
In a group, a reply you send from the inbox is visible to everyone in that group. Only a direct chat is private.

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Slack

Slack uses an ordinary OAuth redirect, but with one difference worth knowing: you pick the channel on Slack’s screen, not in Nylon.
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Choose Slack in Nylon

In Connections, choose Slack. Nylon sends you to Slack to approve the install.
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Pick a workspace and channel

Slack asks which workspace to install into and which channel posts should go to. That channel becomes the connection.
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Repeat for more channels

One connection is one channel. To post into a second channel, connect Slack again and pick that one.
Install into a single workspace rather than org-wide. An org-wide install belongs to no one workspace, so there is no channel for Nylon to attribute a post to, and the connection is refused.
For a private channel, invite the Nylon app into it first — Slack will not let an app post to, or upload into, a private channel it is not a member of.