Migration starting now!

I will aim to keep rose online for the vast majority, but will need to do some small downtimes. Hopefully everything goes smoothly :)

Migration is well on the way, and I think everything is stable enough for the chats to be unlocked.

Data is in the process of being copied to the new server, and its all looks good so far, no nasty surprises.

We'll have to wait a day or two for all the data to be properly replicated to the new server, at which point I'll be able to finish up the last bit of the migration and fully move Rose over; but that shouldn't take too much time.

Thank you for your patience, this has been a new migration process for me to run through so has been quite stressful - very happy to see it all working as planned! 😄 Very comforting to know that in the future, migrations will only need a few minutes of downtime, rather than a couple of hours!

Hey everyone! Looks like Rose is currently down. We are aware, and Paul will get into it to get her back as early as possible.

Stay tuned and as soon as Rose is back online we'll let you know.

As always, thank you all for your patience and sorry for the inconveniences!

I've recovered Rose, and she's been working fine for the last hour now. People should be good to use her again. No data has been lost.

The issue was caused by unexpected behaviour from the migration, which resulted in the server running out of storage.
I'll keep investigating how best to proceed with the migration without any more downtime.

Thank you for understanding!

Wanted to give everyone some good news. For the last couple of hours, Rose has been running on a brand new server. And no-one even noticed the switch. 😄

That's right - following Wednesday's stressful failed migration, I went down a rabbit hole of reading, learning, and testing out new things, to understand exactly what went wrong. I wanted to be sure I had all the knowledge necessary to avoid the issues I had, such that any future migrations could be done with as little downtime as possible.
Which I would say has been a success. What a relief!

Enjoy!
And if you'd like to support Rose, now would be a great time to donate - as you all know, Rose is run by volunteers, and all donations go straight to server fees. And those aren't cheap 😅. Thank you!

New Rose update!

- Rose now supports topics!
Telegram's latest update added a new way to manage large groups, splitting them into smaller "topic" chats. These can now be used along with Rose.
To make sure that all the features keep working, it is recommended you set Roses "action topic", which allows rose to determine where to send her welcome messages, fedbans, and antiraid notifications. See the help on topics for more info.
- You can now create, rename, close, and delete topics through Rose! See the help on topics for more info.
- Introducing the new /disableadmin command, which makes sure that disabled commands cant be used by admins as well as users.
- Lots of small bugfixes and improvements.
- Updated translations. Please make sure to update your languages!

Enjoy!
And remember to donate to support Rose :)

Minor Rose update!

This is a small update to clean up and simplify the action topics feature we introduced recently, taking into account the new default "general" topic.
Welcomes/CAPTCHA/antiraid/fedbans etc now all work fine without an action topic, and will simply default to the general topic if nothing is specified.

Also:
- Small bugfixes and improvements.
- Updated translations.
- Rose now supports Filipino🇵🇭! Thank you to everyone who worked hard on translating Rose to make this available.

If you'd like to translate your own language, come join us on crowdin!

Happy holidays everyone! ⛄🎉

Happy new year everyone! 🥳

Two years ago, I announced that Rose had reached 63 million users.
So it seems only fitting that today, I announce that Rose has grown to over 400 million total users, across over 9 million chats. Thats gives Rose over 50M monthly active users - nearly 10% of telegrams monthly users!

And all of this is done for free. So I'd like to say a big thank you to all the generous donators (both on GitHub and PayPal!), and all the volunteer admins in the support chat. We couldn't do it without you!

Here's to another great year, looking forward to the milestones it brings! 😄

Rose update!

- Commands that target users (like /info) now work with URLs too; eg, /info t.me/MissRose_bot. This should make it easier to use with some clients that now copy urls instead of usernames.
- Ensure that urls and usernames are properly escaped in mentions, so we dont get any accidental promotion.
- Fix a bug with {replytag} not working as expected in topic groups.
- Improve Rose's lock system to use the new granular telegram permissions system from the latest telegram update. When locking, rose should now use the granular media locks!
- Improve stopping of multi-word filters in some cases where quotes can be implied. Should simplify a common issue people have been having when removing filters.
- Fixed some typos in the help, and improved some strings in fbans.
- Updated translations.
- Rose now speaks Bulgarian 🇧🇬! Big thank you to everyone who contributed.
- Other small bug fixes and improvements.

Enjoy! :)
And as usual; remember to donate, or help translate!

Rose update!

- Added a brand new captcha mode; the text2 captcha! This second text captcha requires the user to select the individual characters, in order, and then press "complete" to submit their answer.
If you have a look at the screenshot, you can see an example where I've selected the first 4 characters already; 42hj. The numbers in brackets show the options which have already been pressed.
- Added the /reset command, which can be used to completely delete all Rose related settings, reverting everything to the defaults.
- Improved the output of /notes for chats which have lots of notes; the notes will now be paginated, instead of sending multiple messages.
- Random filters and notes now support {admin} and {user} fillings properly.
- Lots of internal improvements and bugfixes.
- Updated all languages.

Note: Users of Serbian, Punjabi, and Khmer, please update your translations on crowdin.

Enjoy! And as usual, remember to donate :)

Ahoy there mateys!

Avast ye landlubbers, we be excited to announce the addition of a pirate language to Rose! Ye can now set sail on the high seas of telegram with aye aye’s, shiver me timbers and a whole lot of arrr’s!

Whether ye be a seasoned seadog or a fresh-faced swabbie, this new feature will have ye talking like a true buccaneer in no time. So hoist the Jolly Roger, grab your parrot and get ready to chat like a pirate!

Ye changelogs:
- Add new "Pirate" language 🏴‍☠️. Thank you ChatGPT!
- Fix blocklist triggers not escaping with \ properly.
- Add a new link to the connections help when users try to use group-only commands in PM.
- More small bugfixes and improvements.


Fair winds and following seas, me hearties!
And if ye be so kind, toss some doubloons me way!

Big Rose update!

- Connections now keep track of the last 5 connections, making it easier to manage multiple chats through PM.
- You can now blocklist stickerpacks! Simply reply to a sticker to blocklist the stickerpack. This will stop people from sending stickers from that pack.
- You can now also allowlist individual stickerpacks; this allows you to /lock sticker, and then manually decide which stickerpacks users are allowed to use!
- Blocklists now support the {del} and {nodel} flags, giving you more fine-grained control over the blocklistdelete settings!
- Allowlists have been improved to support inline bots through more ways.
- Log channels now use the correct message link when used with forums.
- Updated the PayPal donation link.
- Backend improvements and bugfixes.
- Updated translations.

Enjoy!

While I have your attention - Rose's maintenance costs are currently twice as much as the incoming donations. If you appreciate using Rose, please consider donating to keep her going!

Rose update!

Not a big one this time, but lots of small fixes and drive-bys.

- Improved the help on multiple modules, adding some new examples and clarifying the help strings.
- Fix the noformat option on welcome messages when using the random filling
- Fix an issue where the inline lock didnt respect the allowlist in some scenarios
- Improved interactions with global chat permissions for lock/unlock
- Some error message improvements when chat members are hidden
- Backend improvements
- Updated translations

Note: Punjabi, Khmer, and Serbian users - please update your languages on crowdin soon.

Enjoy! And as usual, remember to donate to support Rose. It wouldnt be possible to run her without donations!

New donation method!

As I've mentioned in this channel, we've recently been struggling with donations - Rose's server costs are currently larger than the amount of incoming donations.

With this in mind, you can now donate crypto to help support Rose!

BTC address: 3Dq6Cucw7mV7yReNpsQtMGvCHvkZRQ9tW2
ETH address: 0xa87e5f562005717e5945ed6e07390b69a0a65edf
XRP address: rLHzPsX6oXkzU2qL12kHCH8G8cnZv1rBJh
XRP tag: 3180792716

We'll be adding this to the /donate command soon. In the meantime - have a lovely day, and thank you for supporting Rose :)

Hi all,

Rose has now made it to over 500M users!
After reaching 400M users over Christmas, she's grown by over 100M in just 7 months!

Really exciting to see a volunteer run project grow so large. No adverts, just purely run on donations. Thank you all for your support, and looking forward to the big things to come!

If you'd like help by supporting Rose, check out GitHub sponsors, or our newly added crypto options. Have a lovely day! :)

Small Rose update!

This is just a small update as I'm currently working on other things!
- /id now shows the topic ID too.
- Note deeplinks use the chat language.
- Fixed some commands showing the user's name instead of the connected chat name.
- Lots of backend improvements and fixes.
- Updated translations.

Note: Punjabi, Khmer, and Serbian languages have all been removed, as they haven't been kept up to date.
If you use these languages and would like to see them returned, please update them on crowdin.

Enjoy! :)

Telegram is currently experiencing difficulties.
Please don't spam the support chat asking about Rose; it's not a Rose issue, it's a telegram issue. Just wait for telegram to get stable again.

This seems to have been resolved. Telegram is back, and Rose should be functioning as expected again.

Small Rose update:

- Bugfixes and improvements.
- Updated translations.
- Re-Added Serbian as a language. A big thank you to everyone that contributed to get this back since the last update!

If you'd like to see Rose speak your language, feel free to contribute on crowdin.

Enjoy :)

Small Rose update:

- Added new "story" lock, to stop people from sending user stories into your chats (from telegram's latest update).
- Bugfixes and improvements.
- Updated translations.

If you'd to like help with supporting Rose, check out GitHub sponsors, or our newly added crypto options. Enjoy! :)