Controller Updates

Telegram has a problem with the link preview. You may have a trouble with attaching media at the moment. We notified Telegram Team about that.

​​​​Attaching Media

Now you can attach a video and GIF to the message, not only a photo.

Maintenance is over. Everyting works in a normal mode.

On September 4th at 22:00 UTC Controller Team is performing server-side upgrade. All user bots and @ControllerBot will be suspended for 2 hours. Delayed message posting is not affected.

Some of you probably had troubles with attaching photos yesterday. That happened because telegra.ph started using HTTPS. The problem has been solved.

​Introducing Reactions 2.0 💪

Since the launch of reactions in Controller Bot, subscribers clicked them more than 200,000,000 times! Today we glad to introduce update for this feature:

From this day you can add text to reactions and split them into several lines.

A little bonus: URL-buttons can be added to multiple columns.

What do you think about this update?

The problem has been fixed.

@ControllerBot may be slow because Telegram Bot API has a problem with the servers. We notified Telegram Team about that.

Telegram has a problem with the link preview. You may have a trouble with attaching photos at the moment. We notified Telegram Team about that.

Ukrainian, French, and Spanish languages are back on the Controller Bot. Thanks to our brave volunteers for this!

Other languages are in the process of being translated.

Channels Stats has been updated.

Why do we recommend to use only one connected bot in Controller Bot?

When you use one bot, all of the channels are located within the same bot. You don’t have to switch bots in order to create a new post on different channels. The same goes for editing sent posts or scheduled posts.

Take into account that one channel can only be connected to one bot.

About admins of channels in Controller Bot

We removed channel admins management interface in the new version of the bot. Below you can find out how it works now:

1. When a new channel is added to the bot, the list of admins with permission to post messages on the channel is synced automatically.

2. To add a new admin to the channel that is already connected, you have to add the admin into the list of admins and click "Update Data" in the channel’s settings in Controller Bot.

3. After the update, some users may have lost access to the bot due to the fact that they had been added to the list of admins only in the bot itself. In order to resolve this issue, you have to add admins to the list of admins in the channel and click "Update Data" in the settings of the channel in Controller Bot.

​​New update for Controller Bot is out!

- All-in-one. All the main functions like creating and editing posts, view stats and scheduled posts were moved to connected bots, so you no longer need to switch between your bot and Controller Bot every time!

- Synced admin list. All admins of your channel now can use Controller Bot to help you create posts. Admin list can be updated with "Update Data" button in the channel settings.

- Other improvements like updated management of scheduled posts and editing of a photo attached to a message.

Go to @ControllerBot and try out this update right now!

We are currently experiencing problems with connection to Bot API servers due to the Telegram fail. Be patient, please!

The problem has been fixed.

Telegram has a problem with the link preview. You may have a trouble with attaching photos at the moment. We notified Telegram Team about that.

The recent issue with our bots is more deeper than before. In this regard, we publish the full report on the attached Telegraph page: http://telegra.ph/Issue-Report-03-08

UX improvement: now all symbols related to formatting will be automatically escaped if they are in entities such as usernames, hashtags, links and emails. You don't need to paste \ for this anymore. 👽

The issue with editing GIFs was fixed. Now it works as it should.