Hi there!
I'm announcing the channel @AnonyMeetDevlog 🥳, where news, polls and updates for @AnonyMeetBot will be posted 🎉

It's amazing how many new users are using the bot every day, considering that it was born as a test of Telegram libraries! 😊

I'm aware that the bot has some issues, the new version of the bot completely revamped is coming soon 😎 (subscribe to the channel for the beta stage info), with a better matching algorithm and higher performance, subscribe to the channel to follow the updates. I promise, no spam! 👀

Thanks for your attention! 💖

The new /report command will allow you to report the latest user also if the conversation is ended!

Wow over 1k members! 🎉
I've started testing how the new bot works, it still requires some tweaking, but we're almost there!
Stay tuned for info on the beta! 🤖

The wait is over! the beta phase is now available for testing! 🎉
Write to the bot @AnonyMeetBetaBot, and help me to load test it!
The main improvements are:
- A new matching algorithm, more performant and extensible.
- Support for the latest telegram features.
- Improved user experience, and general feel.

There is still the lack of some features, like more languages, but they are coming! For any issue, you can report it through this module: https://forms.gle/DapcRqRdrueZLnEa9

Remember to share the bot with your friends!

Crowdsourced translations have been activated! 🎉

Some notes:
Do not remove any symbols from the translations, such as :, _, \n, \u{..}, etc, they are needed for text formatting.
TRANSLATE ONLY WORDS, EXCEPT THOSE BEGINNING WITH A COLON ":"! (those are placeholders replaced by the bot)

Translation platform: https://crowdin.com/project/anonymeet

As some of you may have noticed, a load test was done on the main bot (in the least used time slot). Nothing was lost, now the legacy one is back up and running. This allowed me to gather some data, and things to fix before the official release!

The new bot is now back online on the beta bot: @AnonyMeetBetaBot

With some fixes, and the new Indonesian language 🇮🇩

❇️ Heads up! ❇️
The new bot is almost ready! I plan to make the change to the new one on January 30, 2021 ⏱. Unfortunately it will not be possible to keep the chats active from the old one.
Note: the new one will be an updated and better performing version of the old one, at the time of release, it will have the same features (they will be added with time!).

💬 A small Q&A from the feedbacks
Q: Why does the bot keep matching me with a gender I didn't choose?
A: If at the time of the search, the bot is unable to find a partner that meets the criteria, it still tries to create as many pairs as possible, because keeping users waiting in memory is resource-consuming. In the future though with the update, this may change, stay tuned.

Q: Why we can't change gender ourself?
A: Well, I didn't know that was possible do it with a simple button in real world 😂. But, a way to be able to update it will come in the future in case of errors.

After some monitoring, it looks like the release of the new @AnonyMeetBot bot went pretty well! 🎉
Some minor issues that some users were having have been fixed.
The beta version has now been deactivated, it will be activated in case of new betas!

New features will be coming soon!

A large influx of users is causing slowdowns to the bot 🐌. The situation is slowly recovering, sorry for the inconvenience 😔

Since yesterday there are some major slowdowns on bot performance 😓. I'm working on longer term fixes that should help when there are tens of thousands of users all at once (more and more often!).

I have released a bot update with some performance improvements. It should significantly reduce response time and match time during hours with more active users! 🤞

Heyy!
I wanted to share with you some statistics about the new version of the bot 😄

Statistics
Total Users: 164,410
🚹: 56,747
🚺: 103,468
🔟: 4,195
Total matches: 1,871,297
New Users Today: 2,394
Active Today: 39,533
Exchanged Messages: 31,008,520

Those are crazy numbers! 😱

I've created a page on Ko-Fi for those who want to donate to help the development of AnonyMeet, more powerful servers and cover the costs of maintenance. Any amount is much appreciated 😊

Two days ago, a change was made to how AnonyMeet talks to Telegram, which seems to have finally fixed the performance issues! 🥳

Please consider donating to cover the bot costs: https://ko-fi.com/anonymeet 😊

NB: This type of campaign will certainly not be done continuously, and not on the same users, so you can expect it as a sporadic thing

As some of you may have noticed, you may have been notified of a message with a simple advertisement 🎟

Via Ko-Fi the fund raising didn't go so well ☹️, but as the bot continues to grow, I need resources to support it 🚀

Thanks for your patience! 😄

NB: This type of campaign will certainly not be done continuously, and not on the same users, so you can expect it as a sporadic thing.