Telegram - Counting messages

Question

I'd like to count the messages of a specific conversation in Telegram. There should be a way using Telegram Desktop and using the debugmode to save the log information (see https://telegram.wiki/desktop/tdesktopcountingmessages). Unfortunately the count-tag is missing in most cases. Any other ideas?

Solution

The easiest way to do this currently is by searching for '+' in the conversation of interest. This will retrieve all messages and you can see the count from the search results. See attached image for an example. This conversation contains 32 messages in total.