New version of our VS Code extension 🚀

This is now a truly professional way to develop bots:
- your bot is downloaded directly into a working folder on your computer
- all commands are just normal files in commands/*.js
- save the file → the command is instantly updated on Bots.Business
- you can use AI, autocomplete, search, refactoring, Git and all the usual dev tools

📦 Where to get it
Available in VS Code Marketplace and Open VSX:
search for Bots.Business

📚 Details and docs
https://help.bots.business/vs-code

If you have a computer and you build bots – this is the perfect time to try this workflow.

Downtime in progress

10 - 30 min

We’ve had an incident: one of the users used our WebApp to show phishing pages.

Because of this, hosting providers started blocking our traffic, and this month we already got serious downtime — in total about 6 hours.

😰 The current downtime is also caused by this issue.

To protect the infrastructure and all other users, we made a simple decision:
we have temporarily disabled WebApp for HTML.

What still works:
- WebApp still works for JSON — you can fetch data from BB as before.
- For now, you should host your HTML on any external file/web hosting and use BB only as a JSON backend.

Unfortunately, everyone suffers because of a few users abusing the system. But this is necessary to avoid providers taking us down again due to phishing.

We’re already working on stricter filters and a safer WebApp option.
We’ll share updates when something changes.

Starting working....

Uptime.

Due this issue "hosting providers started blocking" - some users can have not working app now.

Please wait for fix
Temporary you can use any VPN

New App version.

We fix last error here.
Will be in the Play Market in next days.

Web App:

https://app.bots.business - updated now.

Uptime.

Application is working now

🎉 update: Active Ads are now 12× fewer!

Since January Active Ads reductions (step-wise):
📉 −16.67% Active Ads January
📉 −33.33% Active Ads January
📉 −50.00% Active Ads February
📉 −66.67% Active Ads August
📉 −75.00% Active Ads October
📉 −83.33% Active Ads November

🚀 and we continue!
NOW again: −91.67%

Downtime. Work in progress

We are currently experiencing partial infrastructure downtime: our database server is temporarily unavailable due to an outage on the hosting provider’s issue

The provider is already working on a fix (status: In progress).

We are monitoring the situation and will restore the service as soon as connectivity is fully recovered.

Thank you for your patience.

Recovery

we can have slowly working - old traffic in progress now

Today, January 26, India celebrates Republic Day — a special day of pride, unity, and respect for the values of freedom, democracy, and justice.
From our entire BB Team, Namaste to our users in India and our warmest congratulations on this important national holiday. May this day bring you peace, stability, and prosperity.

As a sign of respect for your culture and this meaningful occasion, we have made the platform calmer and more comfortable:

— Active Ad frequency has been reduced by 2× — now no more than once every two minutes.
— In private chats, active advertising has been reduced by 5%.
— In group chats, active advertising volume has been reduced by 50%.

This is our way of saying Dhanyavaad for your trust and for being with us.
We truly value your community and continue to make the interaction with bots more gentle, respectful, and enjoyable.

update:
another reducing before also

Downtime

working...