Wishing everyone Happy Holidays!

To celebrate the festive season, we'll be locking the support chat for the day, to give our volunteers a well deserved break. We'll be back tomorrow!
Edit: and we're back!

(In the meantime - check out roses /help, or the docs site at missrose.org!)

Small Rose update to start off the new year, bringing all of the features from Telegram's new Bot API 7.0!

- Added support for markdown quotes in notes, filters, etc. Simply prefix a line with > to turn it into a quote! Eg:

This is a quote

- Added a new lock; the externalreply lock can be used to stop users "replying" to messages outside your chat. I expect that spammers will soon start to use this to get around invitelink locks, so good to stay ahead and lock these quickly!
- Added a new {preview:top} filling, which puts your message preview at the top of your message rather than underneath it.
- The usual bugfixes and improvements
- Updated translations, and added Greek 🇬🇷 and Korean 🇰🇷! A big thank you to everyone who contributed. Keep up the good work! (Find us on crowdin if you want to help!)

Enjoy :) And as usual, if you'd like to support Rose, you can use Github Sponsors, crypto, or Tribute.

We are aware that Rose is currently offline. This seems to be caused by the hosting provider.

We are investigating and doing our best to get things back online as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.

This should now be fixed - apologies for the downtime!

Hi all,

Rose recently hit 600M total users 🎉! This shows incredible growth, with no sign of slowing down - that's over 100M new users in just 6 months.

Since 500M, Rose has been updated with:
- New locks to support new Telegram updates.
- New formatting options to handle syntax highlighting and block quotes.
- A brand new documentation website - check out missrose.org!
- New donation options.
- And LOTS of small usability updates (improved /id, rose introducing herself when added to groups, improved examples in the help, and much more).

I love to see just how much this bot, which I originally made for a small group of friends, has grown - and just how many groups it has had a positive impact for! Thank you all for the support, and am looking forward to seeing what new things get released over the next 100M! 😉

And in other news... We also have a Rose update!

- Introducing the new Clean Commands module. This allows you to set Rose to auto-delete commands in your groups, for both users and admins. You can use it to avoid users accidentally tapping commands, or to keep your chat clean from admin actions. There are many possibilities!
- The help now mentions that it can't be translated when using non-english languages - hopefully helps clear up some confusion.
- Lots of upgrades and performance improvements.
- Updated all translations.

Thats all for today folks - enjoy :) And if you'd like to support Rose, and see us hit that next milestone, support us through Github Sponsors, crypto, or Tribute!

Rose update!

- Added a new, more advanced, antiflood option! Instead of just looking at the consecutive messages, this new setting looks at the time between messages. This works alongside the existing antiflood settings, so you can use both at the same time to protect from different kinds of spam. Configure it with the new /setfloodtimer command; for example, to trigger flood for users who send more than 5 messages in 10 seconds, one would use /setfloodtimer 5 10s. For more information, please see the help.
- Added a new command to reopen closed topics; /reopentopic.
- Added new action strings to Rose's translations, making replies more consistent.
- Approval reasons now support markdown formatting.
- Improved markdown support for spoiler tags.
- Bugfix: Boosts no longer count towards the flood limit.
- Multiple other small bugfixes and improvements.
- Updated all languages, and added support Hungarian 🇭🇺! Big thank you to everyone who contributed ❤️.

Enjoy :) And as usual, if you'd like to support Rose, you can use Github Sponsors, crypto, or Tribute.

Small mid-week Rose update:

- Added a new option to /disable all; this will toggle all of the disableable commands, similar to how lock all will enable all locks. This also works for /enable.
- Updated examples for disabling commands to describe the existing features.
- Log invitelink names when logging a join request (if available).
- Multiple other small bugfixes and improvements.
- Update all languages, and added support for Hindi 🇮🇳! Big thank you to everyone who contributed 🎉

Enjoy :) And as usual, if you'd like to support Rose, you can use Github Sponsors, crypto, or Tribute.

Hi all!

We're excited to announce that we're collaborating with the $WIF community. They've graciously reached out to help support the costs behind Rose and the upcoming custom clones offering, in exchange for us temporarily adding their signature hat to @MissRose_bot's profile.

Big thank you to Dogwifhat!

Telegram seems to be experiencing some issues with bots at the moment. This may cause delays for bot replies for people in the affected datacenters.

This is not an issue on Rose's end, there's nothing for us to do - please be patient while Telegram fixes things from their end.
Thank you!

This appears to be fixed!

New Rose update!

- Rose now supports Join Requests for CAPTCHAs! Any groups using Rose's CAPTCHAs can now enable invitelinks with admin approvals enabled. If Rose has the "add members" permission, she will PM the user as soon as they request to join the group, and allow them into the chat when they complete the CAPTCHA. No extra configuration required, this works out of the box!
- Improved the /adminlist command to show the group owner, as well as any custom admin titles.
- Some small bugfixes and improvements.
- Updated all translations. Note: If you speak Kurdish, please update your language on crowdin!

Enjoy :) And as usual, if you'd like to support Rose, you can use Github Sponsors, crypto, or Tribute.

New Rose update!

- Enabling CAPTCHA kicks will now also automatically dismiss the relevant Join Requests after the captchakick time expires. This should make it much easier for groups using join requests to send CAPTCHAs in PM.
- Added a new "fed language" feature, allowing users to change the language of their federation log channel. This should avoid the posts in your fedlog being in the language of the group you fbanned in! The default fedlang is english.
- The title cleanservice option now also deletes topic name changes.
- The photo cleanservice option also deletes service messages regarding chat background changes.
- The other cleanservice option now also deletes boost service messages.
- Fixed a small bug where anonymous admins couldn't use the /unpinall command.
- Log channels now show more data related to join requests.
- Some small bugfixes and improvements.
- Updated all translations. Note: Kurdish users, please update your language on crowdin.

Enjoy :) And as usual, if you'd like to support Rose, you can use Github Sponsors, crypto, or Tribute.

Small Rose update!

- Some bugfixes to CAPTCHAs to cover some edge cases found with the recent JoinRequests CAPTCHA feature.
- Users who had already completed a group's CAPTCHA will now get auto approved when using join requests for the second time, without needing to solve it again.
- Updated Rose's formatting to support telegram's new Collapsible/Expandable Quotes format.
To send a collapsible quote, use the following syntax:

**>first line
> second
> third
> final, hidden line||

This will show as:

first line
second
third
final, hidden line

(Note - if you can't see a difference from regular quotes above, you may need to update your telegram client first)
- The usual bugfixes and improvements.
- Updated all translations. Note: If you speak Kurdish, please update your language on crowdin!

Enjoy :) And as usual, if you'd like to support Rose, you can use Github Sponsors, crypto, or Tribute.

Small Rose update!

- Improvements to the markdownparser's new expandable blockquotes feature that was added last week
- Allowlists now allow users to also allowlist items from the externalreply lock; as usual, allowlist the username or the group's id.
- Improved error handling for connection disconnecting; some inaccessible chats werent being removed before, but are now.
- Other small bugfixes and improvements
- Updated all translations. Note: If you speak Kurdish, please update your language on crowdin!

Enjoy :) And as usual, if you'd like to support Rose, you can use Github Sponsors, crypto, or Tribute.

Small Rose update!

- Added cyrillic (russian, serbian, ukrainian, etc) and cjk (chinese, japanese, korean, etc) locktypes to help control which alphabets are being used in your groups. This should hopefully help groups receiving spam in unknown alphabets!
- Fixed a bug where calling a note in a topic wouldn't mention the right user.
- Small bugfixes and upgrades.
- Updated all translations.

Note to Kurdish speakers; please update your language on crowdin, or it'll be removed at the next update.

Enjoy :) And as usual, if you'd like to support Rose, you can use Github Sponsors, crypto, or Tribute.

Rose update!

- Improve join request captchas to support when users have never spoken to Rose before. For those that missed this feature, it can be used to create join portals to your group, stopping users from seeing your group's contents or members until they've solved the captcha. It'll also help protect you from raids!
- Improve blocklist matching logic to capture more unusual symbols, as well as handle duplicate spaces between words.
- Add more cases where Rose will disconnect from chats she can't access.
- Fixed printing of custom actions shorter than 1m in /locks and /blocklist (eg, {smute 30s}, which previously didn't show properly).
- Improve error handling of some new telegram errors, improving overall stability and performance.
- Other small bugfixes and improvements
- Updated translations.

Note: The Kurdish (ckb) translation has been removed, as it hasn't been kept updated. If you would like to see it return, please complete it on crowdin.

Enjoy :) And as usual, if you'd like to support Rose, you can use Github Sponsors, crypto, or Tribute.

Telegram is currently experiencing some issues, which may lead to delayed responses from various bots.
Please be patient while we wait for them to resolve the issues on their end; this is not something we can influence.

Things seem to be mostly resolved now.
Thank you for understanding!

Rose's server is currently experiencing some issues - this is being investigated, and any updates will be provided here.

Apologies for the downtime, and thank you for understanding!

Update: This is an issue with the server's storage and database. Maintenance is ongoing, but this may take a while.

I believe I've found and addressed the root cause, run proper maintenance on the database, and Rose should now be back to normal again.

I've also got a list of things to improve to help avoid this happening again in the future - which I'll start working on in the next few weeks. If any of this requires downtime, I'll be sure to let everyone know here with some warning.
Thanks again everyone for your patience and support! ❤️

We're aware of issues with Rose - these seem to be unrelated to the previous issues, but we're investigating and will keep this channel updated.

Looks like a random blip from the hosting company. Server has been restarted, everything seems to have recovered. Apologies for the issues!

We're aware that Rose is currently experiencing issues again.
These seem to be a continuation of Fridays issues, caused by some database problems; best is to leave the database to do its maintenance.

I'm actively monitoring and inspecting, and will be trying to do a migration to a new server in the near future if possible.

This has now been resolved, Rose is back again. Will keep monitoring and assessing best paths to avoid this happening again in the future :)
Thanks again for understanding!

Small Rose update:

- Improve blocklist matching, so we don't accidentally match files or stickerpacks which shouldn't be matched.
- Add new /limits command to show the bot's limits.
- Some minor bugfixes and stability improvements.
- Updated translations.

As mentioned previously, I've got a few things I'm working on in parallel to improve Rose's stability; including upgrading servers in the future. Fingers crossed!

Enjoy :) And as usual, if you'd like to support Rose, you can use Github Sponsors, crypto, or Tribute.

Hello everyone! It's been nearly two years since Rose's last server migration, and so it's getting around time to move to a newer, bigger server; all those chat settings take up a lot of storage!

Except unlike previous migrations, I don't have any downtime to announce - for the last 24 hours, Rose has already been running on her new server. Didn't notice the switch? Doesn't look like anyone else did either! So just enjoy the upgrade, and knowledge that Rose should be stable again now, and faster than ever.

I'd also like to thank everyone for their patience with the issues that have been popping up over the last week; after lots of debugging, it looks like those were caused by problems with the server's hardware. The new server shows no such issues, and I now know what to look out for in the future.

To add to the good news, I'd also like to introduce the early access program for Rose Custom clones. If you're looking to customise Rose's name and picture to match your aesthetic, and increase the number of filters/blocklists/notes, then this is for you! Check out the form for more details; I'll reach out with more details to people who sign up.

Thanks a lot for reading - and looking forward to seeing what the next steps of Rose's story will look like!