Small Rose update:

Updated all translations and languages. As usual, if youre interested in helping to translate Rose, join us on crowdin!

On another note, we are planning to go through Rose's database maintenance tomorrow at 7pm UTC. As mentioned above, this should result in a downtime of approximately 2 hours. Will keep you updated nearer to the maintenance window.

Reminder: The migration will begin at 7pm UTC; in 30 minutes.

Rose will be unavailable during approximately 2 hours while the maintenance is ongoing.

The migration has begun.

The migration is still ongoing. Expect another 30 minutes of downtime.

Migration completed. Rose should be back up and running.

There are currently no new features added yet - the latest bot API update will be added later this week.
Thank you for your patience!

We have been receiving several inquiries regarding the recent changes from Telegram, which are causing many groups to experience issues in regards to channels and spam.

Rest assured, we are working on implementing the ability to ban channels to fight this type of abuse. However, this does require some work to implement, and also time for us to test to ensure it does not negatively impact Rose's performance - or cause any new issues.

We ask that you remain patient while we perform the necessary work and testing to get this added for you, and as soon as this feature is available for use, we will post an announcement to let everyone know.

Rose update:

This is a VERY small initial update to support the bot API 5.5.

Under normal circumstances, we would usually group together all the new features that the new bot API provides Rose into a single update. However, we've experienced so much spam over the last two days, that we've decided to release a small preview to handle the new anonymous channel spamming.

Features:
- Added a new locktype, anonchannel. Use /lock anonchannel in your groups to stop anonymous channels sending messages into your chats.
- Ensure that blocklists and locks work as expected on anonymous channels.
- Internal bugfixes to prepare for full bot API 5.5 support.

We are aware that many commands, such as /ban and /fban, are not yet ready to be used against anonymous channels. Rest assured, we are working hard to get them ready in the next update.

Thank you for your patience, and enjoy!

Hi all.

I'm sure many of you have noticed that Rose has been having some delays over the past few days, and are wondering why. The short answer is, we cannot afford to upgrade her to a larger server with the current donations. If we don't upgrade her, she will keep being slow.

The maintenance we did the other day was to extend the storage of the database. However, the new storage is too slow to handle Rose's traffic, which is what is causing this issue. There are no other companies which would allow extending the storage at fast enough speeds - I've checked.
To fix this, we need a new server, with more storage. This is expensive.

A server big enough for rose's size would cost us £200 (260 USD, 230€) per month.
Currently, we receive £120 (160 USD, 140€).

Which is why I'm turning to you - if you enjoy using Rose, and would like to see Rose keep growing, please setup a monthly donation here. You would be helping millions of users use one of telegrams largest bots, reducing spam, and making communities a safer place for everyone.

Sorry for the awkward message, and thank you in advance!
Paul

Hi all, me again.

Thanks to the overwhelming number of donations over the past few hours (really, thank you!) and some helpful tips on server availabilities, we believe we've found somewhere reasonable to run Rose efficiently.

To make sure everyone can keep relying on Rose, we would like to get this done as soon as possible; at 7pm UTC, tonight - in one hour. We expect the maintenance to last 3 hours, like last time.

Hopefully, everyone agrees that a slow Rose is not helpful, and understands why this maintenance is so urgent!
Thank you for your patience.

Maintenance is now beginning.

Migration completed. Looks like a big success, things seem much faster than they were before.

Enjoy the speedy Rose everyone!
And a big thank you to everyone donating to make this possible ❤️

Rose Update:

Rose now fully supports the bot API 5.5! 🎉

This means that you should now be fully equipped to fight spammers posting as anonymous channels.

In particular:
- Full support for anonymous channels.
- You can now /ban and /fban channels (and of course, unban them!).
- Antiflood, blocklists, and locks now all work as expected against channels. Note: Due to limitations of the bot API, bots cannot "kick" or "mute" channels. Therefore, Rose will ban channels instead, even if youve configured Rose to do otherwise.
- You can now /approve channels to allow them to speak in your group. This might be helpful for group admins who would like to speak as channels, but still want the anonchannel lock to be enabled!


Finally, Rose now knows Taiwanese 🇹🇼! A big thank you to everyone who contributed. Also updated all the existing strings.

Enjoy the update, and as usual, report any bugs in the support chat.

Telegram seems to be experiencing issues, which is causing rose to have delayed responses.

Update: our server provider is currently experiencing network issues, which means rose can't receive or send messages. Please bear with us while we look to solve this.

We are still investigating.

Can confirm, it looks like our server provider is undergoing network maintenance. We're leaving rose online, and hopefully she'll be able to catch-up when the maintenance eventually finishes. With a bit of luck, it'll finish earlier than Hetzner have estimated.

Sorry for yet another section of downtime - this is completely out of control, and sucks just as much for us as it does for you.

Thank you for your understanding!

Looks like Rose is back to normal for now.
Hopefully the network won't degrade any further for the next couple of hours, and we can all enjoy some stability.
Thank you!

Telegram seems to be experiencing some issues at the moment. This is causing delays with multiple bots across telegram.

Rose will recover when telegram does - thank you for your patience.

Telegram is back. I've dropped a lot of pending messages to get Rose back online as fast as possible. Should be all good now 🎉

Rose upgrade:

Telegram have updated to the Bot API 5.6, adding a brand new formatting type; spoilers! And if telegram supports something, then so must Rose.

To use spoilers, simply save a message with a spoiler tag as you usually would. That is, use /save test ||these are spoilers||.

Note: older apps may not support this yet. Make sure to upgrade your telegram client to the latest version if this doesn't work for you.

Enjoy!

Small Rose update:

- Added a spoiler lock type, to stop users from hiding their messages behind spoiler tags.

Enjoy!

Happy new year everyone! :) 🎊

Rose update:

- Added a new raid mode! This allows you to defend your chats from telegram raids. A "raid" is when hundreds (or thousands!) of users join your chat at the same time to spam.
When you enable raid mode, Rose will temp ban all new users who join for the next couple of hours, keeping your chat protected, and allowing conversation to continue as usual.
To enable raidmode, simply use the /raid command. You can then disable it by running the same command again.
Raid mode durations can be customised to suit your needs - check the /help on raids for more info.
- Improvements to the display of warning settings.
- Bugfixes and big performance improvements.
- Updated languages.

As usual, join us in the support chat if you have any questions.
Enjoy!

Rose update:

- /adminerror can now be used to enable/disable the errors sent by Rose when a non-admin sends an admin command.
This can be useful to reduce command spam in larger groups, where users might try commands that theyre not allowed to use.
Could also help for chats which use other bots that clash with Rose's admin commands!
To enable it, simply use /adminerror off.
Rose will then stop replying to users sending admin commands.
- Updated translations.

Enjoy!