Marie/Rose News

2023-04-01 14:28:56 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! Open / Comment

2023-03-12 15:53:52 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 :) Open / Comment

2023-02-11 20:53:21 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! Open / Comment

2023-01-02 00:35:32 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! Open / Comment

2022-12-26 00:42:32 Happy holidays everyone! Open / Comment

2022-12-08 20:55:21 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! Open / Comment

2022-11-22 20:56:12 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 :) Open / Comment

2022-10-15 22:59:56 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! Open / Comment

2022-10-13 11:14:24 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! Open / Comment

2022-10-13 04:55:13 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! Open / Comment