Marie/Rose News

Rose update!

Telegram added buttons to their rich messages earlier this week - so naturally, Rose has been updated to support these too!
As a reminder; to send a rich message, use the rich text editor (which you can open by selecting "article" in the attachements tab).

Other new features:
- Filters+blocklists now have improved matching logic when dealing with languages that don't rely on spaces to separate words, such as chinese and japanese. This should make Rose more accessible to all these countries!
- Pins from other bots no longer get logged; this is automated noise and doesn't help understand your admins.
- Community joins are now included under the "join" cleanservice option. No changes are needed for this setting to be updated.
- Improved the handling of connections and simplified some connection errors. (Reminder - connections are how you can change your group's settings in PM!)
- The usual bug fixes and improvements.
- Updated translations.

Enjoy! And remember to check out @RoseClone_bot to customise your bot's name, take advantage of higher limits, repeated messages, and more :)

Rose update!

Telegram recently had a big update introducing rich messages; messages with enhanced formatting options. They then added a new rich message editor, which allows users to send and format their messages properly.

This is all very cool; but the real beauty would be if they could be used in Rose. And now, they can!

To save a rich message as a note or welcome, simply use the same commands you've always used; things just work.

This was a pretty big change, so if you face any issues just let us know in the support chat :)

Other new features:
- Added the new "richmessage" lock, which deletes any messages which rich formatting.
- Lots of internal reworks for experimenting with future features.
- Small bug fixes and performance improvements.
- Updated all translations.

Note: Still looking for Dutch speakers to update their language on crowdin.

Enjoy, and remember to check out @RoseClone_bot to customise your bot's name, take advantage of higher limits, repeated messages; and more!

We are aware of @MissRose_bot not responding in certain instances (certain commands in groups / DMs). We appreciate your patience while we work to resolve the issues!

A bit different today - we have a @RoseClone_bot update!

After telegram's recent addition of Managed Bots, I thought it only made sense for this to be integrated with the Rose Cloner. And while there, I figured it was high time for UI refresh to fit with telegram's standards!

So, we now have:
- A brand new UI for the cloning interface.
- Support for using Telegram's managed bots, simplifying API token management for your bots.
- And to round things up, I added two new bot types for the Rose Core plan - you can now choose between having your clone in 5, 10, or 20 groups! Hopefully this should help with people looking to moderate larger communities which span more groups.

For existing Rose Clone owners, you'll notice i added some new helpful commands to keep track of which groups are using your bot - just try to /start and they'll be listed there.

Enjoy, and have a great weekend! 😄🌹

Rose update!

Following last week's update, we've had some feature requests of things people would like to see with bot-to-bot workflows and reactions. So, here we go:
- A new outsidereaction lock, to stop people who aren't in your groups from reacting to messages in your groups. As soon as an outsider reacts, it just... gets removed. Easy!
- A new advanced feature to control bot-to-bot interactions. This allows other bots (AI, automation, etc) to run Rose commands in a safe and controlled way. We have three options available for the bot2bot command - off, admin, and all.
It can be used to determine which bots Rose will respond to commands to, and reduces the risk of a user circumventing your group's protections by using bots.
If Rose responds to a command, she'll ask an admin to review this command - adding an extra layer of protection. Or, you can toggle the /bot2botskipreview command to allow bots to run commands without approval - more dangerous, but can be useful for trusted bots.
- Users can now only use /warns to check their own warnings. Admins can of course still use it to check other users' warnings.
- Updated the docs website with all the new features we have available.
- Small bug fixes and performance improvements.
- Updated all translations. Still looking for Dutch speakers to update their language on crowdin.

Enjoy, and remember to check out @RoseClone_bot to customise your bot's name, take advantage of higher limits, repeated messages; and more!
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Rose update!

With telegram's latest update, Rose now has some handy new features to take advantage of - so I've gone ahead and done exactly that!

- Rose can now see and respond to messages sent by other bots. That's right - if a telegram bot is sending messages you don't want, Rose can now delete those messages. Similarly, other bots can now trigger Rose's filters and notes.
- Add a new reaction lock type. You guessed it; it stop users from reacting. And if they do, it deletes their reaction!
- We now also have a guestbot lock type - which will stop users from using telegram's new guest bots. These can be allowlisted as usual. I expect spammers to start using these soon - might be good to lock if you know you won't want anyone using them.
- If a user tries to use a guest bot to circumvent locks or blocklists - they'll still the ones who'll get punished for it! This means users are responsible for the messages that are sent by the guest bots they use.
- Users muted with /mute, or by the CAPTCHA, can no longer react to messages.
- Fbanned users who react to a message will now get their reaction removed when they get banned.
- Updated all translations. Note to Dutch speakers; please update your language on crowdin.

There's lots to be done with the new bot-to-bot communication flows - if you've got suggestions, please let us know in the support chat.
And remember to check out @RoseClone_bot to customise your bot's name, take advantage of higher limits, repeated messages; and more!

Enjoy! 🥳🌹

Hello everyone!

Earlier today, we achieved something I never imagined would happen - Rose hit 1 billion users! 🎉

That's right - from the first few Marie users in 2017 (Rose's precursor), to releasing Rose in 2018, and then the next step of custom instances in 2024 - Rose has now officially interacted with over one billion total users.

Thank you all for the feedback, feature requests, and bug reports - but most of all, thank you for using Rose and helping the project reach this stage! Excited to see what comes next 😄🌹

Hello everyone!

One of the overwhelming pieces of feedback i got after launching custom clones was that the price was too high.

So, after a lot of behind-the-scenes action, I'm launching a new way to get your own custom Rose bot, at a significantly lower price point.

Introducing Rose Core — your own branded bot for just $10/month.
Everything you love about the free version, plus:
✓ Your own bot with custom name and picture
✓ Use across up to 5 groups
✓ Increased limits on filters, notes, and blocklists
✓ Exclusive features like broadcasts, echo, and scheduled messages

The existing custom instance option is now Rose Premium ($50/month), featuring more groups and premium support.

Check it all out on our website - or create your new bot in @RoseClone_bot now! 🎉🌹

Hey everyone! 👋

A quick aside from the usual Rose updates, but bear with me! I'm the solo developer behind Rose, and I'm working on making the bot even better for group admins like you.
I'd love to hear about your experience managing groups - what's working, what's frustrating, and what challenges you're facing. This will directly help me figure out what to focus on next!

It only takes 2-3 minutes: https://forms.gle/JefZQ9zSFvQPqBLs5

Thank you for helping me make Rose better! 🌹

Rose update!

Telegram released their latest bot api version a few days ago - meaning we have some new features to play with!
- Buttons now support different styles - "primary", "danger" and "success". These are shown as blue, red, and green buttons, respectively.
With this update, Rose now allows you to display these button styles by using the new buttonurl# syntax. For example, you can set a green success button with: [A Button](buttonurl#success://example.com)
- The CleanService module has been updated to support some of the new service messages that bots receive.

On top of that, we have a few more features from Rose's side:
- Log channels can now only be set up by the group owner, to help keep crucial settings logged.
- Using the leavefed command in PM now uses the correct chat name.
- Filters will now also match on dice triggers.
- Federations no longer get enforced when an admin unbans a user - this should allow groups to remove deleted accounts if they want to clean their ban lists.
- The usual bugfixes and improvements, and as well as massive amount of internal refactors and performance improvements.
- Updated all translations.

Enjoy :) And if you'd like to customise Rose's picture to fit your community, come get your own custom instance!

Wishing everyone Happy Holidays from the Rose team! ⛄️🎉

It's been a massive year for Rose, with the userbase growing at an unprecedented rate - we're nearing 1 billion total users!
It brought along lots of new challenges with scaling and optimisations, but I'm excited by how we've handled each one. Have some interesting new features planned for next year, so looking forward to sharing more details once they're done! 😄🎉

Hi all,

Two weeks since my last post about working on Rose's performance. Uneventful for Rose, but very eventful for me, as I've been hard at work adding new optimisations in the background to fix any bottlenecks that had creeped in! We now have:
- a faster blocklist matcher
- improved caching logic
- tuned database/cache connections
- and more to come; still have some things I'd like to mark as done!
And all the changes have given me the opportunity to add some more performance metrics, so it'll be easier for me to spot where issues come from in the future. Really happy with the progress so far 🎉

As part of these changes, I released a small update to Rose earlier today, which now has Rose asking users to verify new groups via a webapp before Rose starts working. I understand this has caused some confusion - don't worry! All normal, I'm just trying out something new to help fight spam groups who add Rose but then don't use her. I've just updated the message to try and make that clearer.

Thank you, and enjoy :)

Hi all,
My apologies for anyone who had Rose send unwanted error messages in their groups today. A recent configuration change to improve roses handling of telegram updates and improve stability caused Rose to hit a connection limit trying to connect to its cache - which was not the goal.

I've now fixed the issue, and expect Rose to be working as usual again. I'm hopeful that these new changes will help avoid the delays that have been occurring over the last few days, and keep Rose snappy.
Thank you all for your patience, and for helping make Rose the bot she is! ❤️

As many of you are already aware, telegram has been experiencing significant issues with their bot API over the last few hours. This is affecting all bots, and has meant significant delays on rose's responses.

There's sadly not much to be done on our side other than wait for telegram to recover - this isn't something in our control.

Thank you for your patience.

Rose is having issues due to a network issue seems to be ongoing between telegram and hetzner, my server provider. It is unclear who is responsible between the two.

We are investigating, but rose may be responding with delays.

Hi all, Telegram seems to be having some issues again, showing a large spike of timeout errors.

We're investigating, but ultimately it doesn't look like there's much we can do other than wait for telegram to recover.

If you're using Rose in commercial groups, my best advice is to get a custom instance, as the dedicated bots will be much less subject to telegram's limits.

Thank you for your patience!

Rose update!

We're excited to add a new feature which we expect will be very helpful in fighting some common spam messages; namely, custom emoji blocklists! Similar to how you can already blocklist stickerpacks, you can now also blocklist emojipacks.
To do this, simply reply to a message containing custom emoji, and use the /addblocklist emojipack: syntax. This will blocklist every custom emoji pack in that message, protecting you from further spam.

Other updates:
- Also added support for allowlisting custom emoji when emojicustom has been locked. Same as for blocklists, simply use the /allowlist emojipack: syntax!
- Updated the /help command to have a button to the docs website at missrose.org/docs - hopefully the search function can be helpful!
- Significant performance improvements to help minimise recent telegram blips.
- Improve performance for the cleanwelcome feature.
- Improve overall performance monitoring tooling to ensure we can stay reactive to telegram issues.
- Initial steps for further performance improvements over the next few updates.
- The usual bugfixes and improvements.
- Updated translations.
- Added support for the Catalan 🇪🇸 language! Big thank you to everyone who contributed.

Enjoy :) And if you'd like to customise Rose's picture to fit your community, come get your own custom instance!

Telegram has been experiencing some issues for the last few hours, causing delayed responses from Rose, due to the high load of users.

We're monitoring and looking into possible solutions, but it looks like the issue is in telegrams end.
If you're running a large monetised community, I can recommend getting a custom instance; these private clones of Rose won't have any issues with load!

Just undid the changes handling normalisation of blocklists to improve matching of lookalike characters, as this was causing issues in multiple international groups.

I do still think this is a very helpful feature for fighting spam though! So if you would like to keep using those changes, this is now possible by using the lookalike prefix. Just use:
/blocklist lookalike:bot to stop users from sending messages containing things like bot, вот, or b0t.

Enjoy, and apologies to anyone who faced any issues with this.

Rose update!

- Added support for a new "checklist" lock, to delete checklists from telegram's latest update.
- Updated cleanservice to handle the new checklist service messages.
- Added support for a new "cashtags" lock, which deletes messages containing what telegram calls cashtags; they look like this: $CASH.
- Improved the zalgo lock to avoid some edge cases when used with emoji
- Improved blocklists to also match various similar characters, such as cyrillic letters which can be confused with latin letters.
- Usual bugfixes and improvements.
- Updated translations.

Enjoy :) And if you'd like to customise Rose's picture to fit your community, come get your own custom instance!