Blame the Europe telegram outage for Marie having some downtime - all good now.

Have just hit 100k users on Marie! Glad everyone is enjoying my work :)

Hey everyone - just to let you know, there's gonna be a small downtime at 3pm UTC. Digital ocean are rebooting some droplets, and there's nothing I can do about it. Should take about 10 minutes max - hope it doesn't cause too much trouble!

Downtime today was due to a power outage in telegram's Europe datacentre, which caused bots to go down! Sorry for the inconvenience. Should be all up and running again!

With 180k users, people are bound to be asking for features. Lately, it's seemed like a lot of people have been asking for translations!

Rest assured, I've been looking at how I can offer translation settings for everyone. As soon as I get back from holiday and have a working translation prototype, I'll post a Google form to see what translations people would be interested in, and then I'll setup some crowdsource project for everyone to contribute their translations.
Look forward to seeing how many different nationalities use Marie!

200k users 🎉 🎉 🎉

In other news, I'm back from holiday, so I'll start implementing a backlog of features/fixes later today!

Just pushed a new update!

- /tban, or /tempban x(m/h/d) allows you to ban a user for x amount of time (defined by the m/h/d).
eg: /tban @user 2d would ban the user for 2 days.

- You can now lock games and forwards!

- /welcome now shows a markdown formatted version of the welcome message (except for names/ids etc). If you want the unparsed message, for example to edit it and update your current welcome message, use /welcome noformat.

I've also fixed a small bug in warnings which meant some users sometimes got -1 warns, and updated a few strings here and there.
Enjoy!

Hey, just pushed an optimisation update!

Spent a few hours optimising and implementing a cache system in Marie to avoid a lot of unnecessary database accesses - should hopefully be faster than ever now!

Let me know in @MarieSupport if it's raised some new bugs; it's been quite a big refactor and I changed a whole bunch of logic. If there are too many bugs (there shouldn't be) I'll revert to the previous working version in a few hours. :)

Another optimisation update - as usual, lmk if there any new bugs. Especially concerning log channels, antiflood, and command disabling, Thanks!

Should the /disable command stop users AND admins from using a command, or just users?

Just users – 65
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 87%

Users and admins – 10
👍 13%

👥 75 people voted so far. Poll closed.

300k users 🎉 thanks guys, glad you like my work!

For those wondering why Marie isnt responding; telegram Europe went down, and so all bots are currently off.

https://twitter.com/telegram/status/990474364108894209?s=19

Bot api back up, Marie is catching up on the thousands of messages sent during the bot api downtime. Give her a moment to catch up and it'll all be good!

Finally caught up!

Taking Marie down for maintenance, trying to fix some long term annoyances!

Coming back up, she's catching up on messages

Have a few more things to do in the meantime to finish maintenance but should all be OK now

500k users! 🎉 thanks guys! Still going strong - and of course I'm still working on making her better!

750k users... Never ceases to amaze me how fast Marie is growing! 🎉

Telegram went down earlier, thats why Marie is currently acting up - she's catching up on the messages she missed. Give her a bit of time to come up to speed. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Digital Ocean are undergoing network maintenance on the Marie cluster, so she has some irregular uptime at the moment.
Sorry for the inconvenience, I wasn't notified about this and can't do anything given the poor connectivity. The maintenance is planned to continue for the next few hours.