Updated all Rose languages, and added Chinese Traditional 🇹🇼! Thanks to all those who contributed!

Hey everyone!

Rose hit 4m users over the weekend!! 🎉
To celebrate, our dear admin Kyle has gone ahead and created a fantastic tutorial on how to use Rose, covering all the small intricacies and details that you might come across :) think /help, but on steroids!

So go ahead and head on over to MissRose.org to check it out!

Note that this is still a WIP, so mobile support hasn't been added yet - it'll be best enjoyed on a computer :)
If you find any bugs or typos, or simply want to make a suggestion, drop @Bloodlvst a line in @RoseSupport!

Enjoy!

Rose has been updated to support button locking!

You can now do /lock button, to stop people from sending button links via inline bots or forwards. Since these are URLs, the buttons can also be whitelisted; any buttons with whitelisted URLs will not be deleted.

Note: due to telegram bot api restrictions, rose can only see buttons which open a URL, not other buttons.

Forgot to mention:
If locking all buttons is a bit too extreme for you, blacklists also work on button text and button urls, so any links that you've already blacklisted will get deleted if they're sent in a button! :)

There are some issues with rose and welcome messages at the moment - these will be fixed tomorrow, as soon as I have access to a computer.

(blame telegram, they started testing in production and changed their API with no warning whatsoever)

Sorry for the troubles! I recommend disabling welcomes messages until then.

The issue with buttons caused by telegrams latest update (followed by their silent update changing some apis without telling anyone) has been fixed.

Sorry about all the error messages from rose, ill be working on improving that in the future :)

MissRose.org now has a mobile version!
Please let us know in the support chat if you find any issues or bugs.
All browsers but IE (if you use IE, shame on you) should be compatible / supported with the responsive design.

Also brightened up the main blue theme for colourblind users, so do give us any feedback on any colour issues :)

In August 2017, I launched Marie.

She was aimed for a group of about 1000 users, and I made her just to prove a point to a friend of mine that a you could create a stable group management bot using the bot api, which didn't rely on the user api.

She grew quickly, and about 3 months later I was excited to see I'd hit 6k users. I added some more features, made her faster, and kept improving her. In April 2018, she hit 100k. Things were going well!
Come July, I'd hit 1M users, but I could see that the python codebase was nowhere near good enough to keep scaling - so in August 2018, I started work on @MissRose_bot.

Lots of people jumped ship to Rose, enjoying the speed and the new features I was able to add now that I wasn't held back by Marie's legacy code. Rose grew quickly, a lot faster than Marie ever did - it only took a bit over a month to get 100k users.

Today, it's been a bit over 10 months since I launched Rose.
Today, she overtakes Marie in terms of user numbers.
Today, she's officially faster and more scalable than Marie. 🎉

Basically, Rose has seen some incredible growth and has overtaken Marie, even though Marie is twice as old. Good stuff.

So thank you for the support and all the helpful feature requests, couldn't have reached these numbers without them!

Telegram seems to be having some issues, so rose might not be working as expected. She'll get back on track as soon as telegram does!

Rose is back up!

Scaleway is acting up, rose is down and I'm not home to see what the problem is. Just wait, she'll catch up eventually.

Looks like everything is fine again, I'll look at causes when possible - have lots of optimisations lined up to avoid these things!

Rose is experiencing some issues.

Ive locked the support chats because people are being abusive and entitled.

Im working on a fix and getting all my optimisations up, hopefully it'll help everything.

Sorry for the downtime!

EDIT: shes fine now, ive added some optimisations.

I've updated Rose with some custom implementations of blacklist and filter matching which makes her less reliant on regex! Should reduce the load and make her scale some more :)

As usual, let us know in @RoseSupport if you have any bugs regarding the following:
FIlters, blacklists, whitelists, and RTL locks.

Rose seems to be down - I'm afraid I'm not at home so can't restart her, but I will be transferring her to a new server tomorrow morning :)
Sorry for the inconvenience!

Im taking down rose for a server upgrade, expect some downtime while i copy the databases over :)

Rose is back up! New server, should be a lot faster - hopefully wont have to do any more migrations for a while now!

Enjoy, and sorry for the downtime!

Bit more downtime while i run some essential maintenance (new server teething issues), doing my best to get her back up and running as fast as possible - please bear with me!

She should be back - sorry for the downtime, if I'm right about the current config, it wont happen again! :)

Due to some unexpected values from telegram's bot api, along with some DDOS, Rose is currently experiencing some downtime. I'll be working to fix it as soon as possible.