Today, Rose has reached 100M users, across 1.4M chats.

Honestly, I'm at a loss for words - I would never have dreamed of reaching this kind of size.

Thank you to everyone who uses rose, has suggested new features, or reported any bugs they've found - you are a part of Rose's growth!
And of course, a giant thank you to everyone that has donated over the years, allowing us to keep Rose up and running. And perhaps more importantly - free to use!

🎉

Reminder:

Rose is closed source, and anyone trying to sell you "a copy of the code" is scamming you.

The code has not been leaked; just because someone has written a bot in golang does not mean its Rose.
Stay safe, and remember not to trust strangers on the internet :)

Rose update:

Telegram recently changed how service messages are sent to chats. This caused Rose to stop welcoming users in large chats.
Rose has now been updated to handle those changes - please let us know if you are still having issues with this. Please make sure to make Rose admin too, or she wont be able to welcome users.

Also:
- Updated the size of CAPTCHA images to reduce cropping (+ added a message to remind people to open them if cropped)
- Bugfixes and improvements
- Updated translations

Enjoy!


Edit: Some chats may still be experiencing issues with welcomes. This is due to a problem on telegrams side. They have been notified, and are working on a fix.

Looks like the majority of welcome issues we were having have now been fixed - big thank you to the Telegram team.

Please be sure to promote Rose to admin to keep welcome messages working; this is now required by Telegram.


If you're still having issues, please send a screenshot of the output of /welcome to the support chat.
Thank you, and sorry for the trouble!

Small Rose update:

- When a user joins via an invitelink, the name of the invitelink owner is now shown in the log channel.
- Add checks to ensure Rose is admin for both /welcome and /setwelcome.
- Fixed a small bug where a user joining a chat where they are fbanned would be incorrectly be reported as being subfedbanned instead of fedbanned.
- Bugfixes and improvements.

Bugfix update:

- Fixed an issue where approvals didnt allow fbanned users to join
- Fixed an issue where adding an fbanned user would silently ban them instead of saying theyre fbanned
- Fixed an issue where Rose replied to a button instead of editing it

Also, updated languages.
Enjoy!

I plan to undergo some essential database maintenance on Rose at 7PM UTC tomorrow (Tuesday 8th June).

I expect this to take about one hour, during which will Rose will be unavailable.
This maintenance will help reduce database load, resolve some long standing bugs, and allow me to future-proof Rose for upcoming updates.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the support chat.
I will post here again when maintenance begins.

As a reminder, Rose database maintenance will begin in ONE hour, at 7PM UTC.
We expect this to last between 30 minutes to one hour.

She will be unavailable during this time.
Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Maintenance beginning now!

Maintenance is going well.

One last one piece to go, which is taking longer than expected - expecting this to take another hour to complete.
Sorry for the inconvenience!

Rose is back. Right on time! Sorry for the delay everyone, everything is now running better than ever :)

This has been quite a big update on the Rose internals - so if you find any bugs, or have any issues over the next few days, please reach out in the support chat, as usual.
Thank you!

Hello everyone, unfortunately Rose is experiencing some issues and she is currently unresponsive.

We are actively looking for a solution and we’ll keep you updated.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

Rose has been reenabled.

Fban checks have been temporarily disabled, for performance reasons - we're investigating what the cause of this is.
To clarify: You can still fban, but fbanned users joining a chat will not get banned.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Fban checks on Rose have been reenabled. Everything should be back to normal now! :)

Small Rose update:

- Fix a bug where chat imports wouldnt import all settings.
- Reduced chat import/export cooldown times. Due to recent performance improvements, this can now be used once ever 30 minutes, instead of 3 hours!
- Fix a bug where permapins sometimes wouldnt pin
- The forward lock now allows for whitelisting of users/chats who should be able to be forwarded from. Simply allowlist their username!

The latest migration has been a great success on our side, so we're looking forward to adding lots of new features over the next few weeks :)

New Rose update!

Lots of fixes and improvements today, aiming to make Rose clearer and more helpful for everyone.

- Improved log channels. Log channels now log manual admin actions as well as actions performed through Rose! This should help you manage what your admins are doing in your chat, longer than recent actions.
- New /privacy command! Show's Rose's privacy policy, and allows you to export and delete your personal data. We don't store anything unless we absolutely need to, and we want that to be clear to everyone! Use it in PM to get more info.
- Limited the number of feds a user can be admin in to a maximum of 20. We've been seeing some people misusing federations to ban people in hundreds of feds at the same time, which harms everyone. If you want to share your fbans, use fed subscriptions instead - that's what they're there for.
- Fixed an issue with admin titles not being set as expected when using /promote
- Fixed an issue where /antichannelpin wouldn't work in certain chats
- Lots of bugfixes and improvements.
- Updated translations.

Thank you, and enjoy the update! As usual, join us in the support chat if you have any questions.

Rose bugfix update!

- Manual pins are now also logged in the log channel.
- Fixed a bug where filters might be unintentionally triggered when using unusual unicode.
- Fix the /stopall command when connected.
- Remove unnecessary delete permission for enabling cleanwelcome settings.
- Fix incorrect importing of certain welcome settings.
- Fix incorrectly named logchannel item.
- Fix a mention parsing issue when using names with non-latin characters.
- Lots more backend optimisations and fixes to improve usage and performance.
- Updated translations.

This update also brings two new languages - 🇧🇾 Belarusian, and 🇵🇹 Portuguese! A big thank you to everyone who contributed.

Enjoy, and as usual, let us know in the support chat if you have any issues!

Telegram seems to be having some issues and causing delays with Rose.

Ive locked the chat until this is resolved to avoid confusion and spam.

This has now stabilised, chat unlocked.

Rose has just reached 200M total users, across 2.6M chats! 🎉

Very strange to look back to a year ago, when we were celebrating 60M total users - especially when we now have over 46M monthly active users!
This is no small feat, and we couldn't have done it without you all. Thank you!

Of course, nothing is perfect - with this massive growth, Rose is now, yet again, growing too big for her server. Her database has grown so large that she will soon need some maintenance to increase her storage.
This change will increase our costs, which leads me to my next point - if you enjoy using Rose, and want to support the project, please consider donating on PayPal, or even better - becoming a GitHub sponsor! This will allow us to assess exactly what we can afford for our next upgrade, and keep Rose running in peak condition somewhere nice. In turn, that should keep performance sky-high; everyones happy!

Will let you know over the next few days when our migration is planned for, and what our time estimates are like.
Thanks again to everyone using Rose, have a great day! 😄

Following yesterday's update - we intend to go through with the database maintenance tomorrow evening at 8pm UTC.

The aim of this maintenance is to increase her available storage, allowing us to keep her working as expected.

This will cause some downtime with Rose - we expect her to be unavailable for approximately 2 hours.

Thank you for your understanding!
Will provide more updates nearer to the time.

The above maintenance has been postponed to a later date.