Rose update!

Just a few small features today, nothing too big.

- Added the new /fedreason command, which allows a fed owner to force whether or not fbans should have reasons. Enabling this will reject all fbans that are made without specifying a reason.
- Fixed a bug where @admin was sometimes matched incorrectly.
- /newfed no longer renames your fed if you already have one. Instead, use /renamefed.
- Using /connect in a chat now shows a deeplink to connect to Rose instead of sending a message in PM. This should help reduce errors, which in turn will reduce some rate limits from telegram. Also means that anonymous admins can easily connect to chats again!
- Anonymous admins removing warnings will no longer be exposed as anonymous.
- Various improved error messages.
- Updated translations.

If any Polish, Dutch, or Taiwanese speakers would like to help with Rose, the translations on crowdin are getting old - a lot of strings are missing. If you would like Rose to keep speaking those languages, please update them :)

Enjoy!

Telegram is currently having issues.
For that reason, Rose is replying slowly.

We are aware of this, and monitoring the situation in case theres something we need to change.
Until then - please just wait. I will update this post when things have fixed themselves.

Edit:
Telegram is back, and so is Rose.
No messages have been missed :)

Telegram is currently experiencing datacentre issues. Several users and bots, including Rose, are having problems sending and receiving messages.

We're aware of the issue and will continue to monitor it. Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do on our end, so please just be patient. We'll provide an update once the issue is resolved.

Update: This has now been resolved.
Telegram is back online, and the bot api is stable again. Sorry for the downtime!

A year and a half ago, Rose hit 6M users. This was big news for me; I created Rose to be fast, and I felt that this was a big milestone to prove I had (at least partially) succeeded.

Today, Rose has grown to 10x that; she now has 60M users, across 760k chats. She receives over 300 messages per second, for a total of over 27M messages every day. Those are no small numbers! In fact, it makes Rose (one of?) the biggest fully free bots on telegram.

Thank you to everyone using Rose, everyone who's helped translate, and everyone that has come and contributed to the support chat with new feature ideas to make her even better at managing groups.
Most importantly - a BIG thank you to everyone that has donated to help pay for server costs. You are what keeps Rose running for everyone. Couldn't have done it without you!

Here's to having many more years of Rose, and keeping her free for everyone to use.
Happy holidays!

Happy new year everyone :)

When Rose was first announced in 2018, I made it clear that she was built for speed. My previous bot, Marie, had made it to one million users the month before, and was beginning to show the telltale signs of slowing down when usage was high.
I didn't like that, at all - so I chose to start from scratch, in a new language, and see how far I could push the telegram bot API.
Now, 2 and a half years later, Rose has over 63 million users, and has been used in over 800k chats. That's a lot of chats for one bot to handle.

To make sure that Rose has space for more growth and keeps pushing limits, it is now time to upgrade to a better server. However, server upgrades are expensive; if you use Rose, and appreciate her help in moderating your chats, please consider donating as much (or as little) as you're comfortable with; either on PayPal, or GitHub Sponsors.
I really cannot stress just how important these donations are - without them, Rose simply would not exist.

The server upgrade will be scheduled over the next few days; more details will be provided in this channel.
Thank you! :)

The server migration is planned for 5pm GMT, on Saturday the 9th. It is expected to last between one and two hours, during which Rose will be completely unavailable.
Rest assured that if the migration completes faster than expected, then Rose will of course be brought back up sooner.

I will post here again when the migration is about to begin, and when it ends.
Thank you for your patience!

Reminder: Server maintenance will be beginning in 5 minutes, and is expected to last between 1 to 2 hours.

Maintenance has now started.

Rose is currently offline while upgrade her server. During this time we have locked the support chat. Once the upgrade is complete and we confirm all is working normally, we will re-open the chat.

Thank you for your patience! :)

Migration is still ongoing - just finishing up the last step. Shouldn't be too long now!

The final database upgrade is taking much longer than expected. The good news is that this is the last thing that needs to complete, and that everything else has upgraded successfully - so as soon as this finishes, Rose will be ready to run again.
Thank you for your patience.

Still going. My best guess is that there are about two hours of database upgrade to go. Very sorry for the delay, I'm just as annoyed as everyone else :/

And... we are done. Finally.

Learnt a lot of things, and will use this new knowledge to avoid this happening again in the future.

Sorry for the delay. Thank you all for the patience. And enjoy the new server!

Rose update:
- New /help design! Some of the sections were getting WAY too big and illegible; theyve now been split into smaller, hopefully easier to understand, sections. Feedback welcome :).
- /spurge allows you to silently purge. When using this command, Rose will not say "purge complete" when she finishes.
- New locktype, album. This allows you to stop people from sending media albums in your chats.
- Updated translations.

Bugfixes:
- Rose now recognises the new invitelinks that were recently added by telegram.
- Fix some incorrect help strings.
- Some other small things.

Translations for Ukrainian have been removed, as they were missing a lot of strings. Taiwanese and Polish are also missing a lot, and will be removed if not updated soon. If you speak any of these languages and would like to contribute, or even add a new language, please join us on crowdin!

Rose update:

Rose's note buttons have been improved to make navigating chained notes easier when in PM. Those note buttons now work via callbacks, reducing the number of /start's that need to be pressed. This allows you to use note buttons to create your own navigatable menu, just like the /help! No changes are necessary for this to be applied, everything is automatically handled.

I've also updated some languages, since there were new contributions.

Reminder: to create a button which links to another note, use the [button name](buttonurl://#notename) syntax. Or just use the button generator!

Enjoy! :)

The telegram bot API has had a hiccup and stopped sending new messages to Rose.
Its now started working again, so Rose is catching up; she should be back up to speed in a few minutes.

Sorry about this; absolutely nothing I can do about it, since the issue is on telegram's side.

On the bright side, the new server is holding up strong, so that was a great move!

UPDATE: She is now fully back and working as she should

Hi everyone, it looks like Rose is currently down. We're looking into it and will provide an update as soon as we can!Thanks for your patience!

Update: Rose appears to be back online. She may continue to be slow while she catches up! I'll provide another update once things appear back to normal.

Update #2: Rose appears be working normally again, sorry for any inconvenience!

Digital ocean, my server provider, is having some major issues (again), so rose is currently down.
I'm investigating.

This has been fixed - Rose is now back online.

I've been communicating with Digital ocean for the last week trying to get an explanation to these random network drop outs. If they are unable to provide a stable service, I will be migrating to another provider - these issues are unacceptable, and not the right place to be spending donation money.

Rose language update:
- Updated all Rose translations.
- Rose now speaks 🇺🇦Ukrainian and 🇦🇿Azerbaijani! Thank you to everyone who contributed.

If you would like to see Rose speak your language, head to crowdin and start translating :)