The channel is temporarily closed. The place to talk about tgdev bots in English is @tgdev_en. Most of conversations happen in Russian in @tgdev_ru group though.

A few weeks ago Telegram deleted RegDateBot.
Today Telegram deleted TgScanRobot.

New bots are available:

RegDateBot —> @regdate_clone_bot
TgScanRobot —> @tgscan_clone_robot

Several TgDev bots have recently been removed, namely:

- @joinhide2_bot
- @joinhide4_bot
- @joinhide8_bot

These bots, like any other TgDev bots, have never been engaged in sending spam and, in principle, advertising of any kind.

If you have a desire to participate in the development of the TgDev project, you can contact the Telegram support service or any other communication channel with the Telegram team and voice this problem.

Here are the official contacts of the Telegram support service:

- [email protected] -- here you can complain about a channel or bot that violates the law
- [email protected] -- you can contact here about an account that was deleted by the Telegram moderation system
- [email protected] -- standard email address of the Telegram support service
- - https://telegram.org/support -- a web page for sending your question to the Telegram support service

I continue the process of dragging TgDev bots to the new engine. At the moment, all bots from the list work on the new engine:

@hushrobot
@nopigrobot
@nohello_robot
@nopm_bot
@nohelprobot
@grep_robot
@lang_blocker_bot
@daysandbox_bot
@namefilterbot
@noarab_bot
@nochinabot
@freqrobot
@nosticker_bot

The new engine contains all the functions from each bot that migrated to the new engine. If you have several bots from this list installed in your chat, then it makes sense to leave only one bot. Otherwise, you will receive several identical messages from each of the bots when any module of the new engine deletes a message.

By default, when installing a bot in a new chat, all modules are disabled. During the migration process, I enabled the grep module for those chats where @grep_robot was configured. As for other modules, they may be disabled. If the operation of a module is important to you, make sure it is enabled in your chat. For example, the activity of the nopig module can be viewed with the command /tgdev/nopig config.

All modules of the new engine are multilingual. At the moment, two languages are available: Russian and English.

Among the interesting features of the new engine, it is worth noting the ability to customize the bot through personal messages, as well as the ability to enter multiple values with one command into a list-of-values type setting.

Detailed documentation on the new engine is available here: https://tgdev.io/ru/bot/tgdev Only Russian language yet, use google translator to read it.

I have added a new feature to joinhide*_bot bots (from 1st to 21st). It is ability to delete all system messages. The feature is disabled by default. To turn it on use a command +joinhide set delete_all_system_msg yes.

@watchdog_robot, @watchdog_clone_robot
Now, even if filters "mention", "group_mention", "link" are enabled, dog robots will not remove links which points to group which links are posted to.

@freq_robot
Now you can add certain users to whitelist to allow them write them message without limitations. See documentation https://tgdev.io/bot/freqrobot for commands to work with users white list.

@watchdog_clone_robot
New filters:
- user_premium — to restrict premium users to join a group
- msg_premium — to remove messages written by premium users