Bot messages

Two sections of the mini app control how the bot talks in your group: Bot Message Settings and Group Localization.

How long notices stay

In a group, the bot's filter notices, verification prompts, karma messages and the welcome are private: Telegram shows each one only to the member it is addressed to, nobody else sees it, and Telegram removes it by itself, so the chat doesn't fill up with moderation. Message display time applies to the bot's ordinary public messages: the ban notice and the answer to /rating (with the /rating command itself). Choose 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 45 or 60 seconds (the default), or Don't delete. Until you pick a value, the /rating answer is removed after 30 seconds. If Telegram refuses a private message, the bot posts the notice as a regular one and the display time applies to it too.

Your own wording

Custom Messages lists the bot's notices, each with its default text. These are used by the bot when you rewrite them:

• the notices for photos, videos, audio, documents, video messages, voice messages, links, bare links, forwards, bot commands, text messages, RTL text, stop words, the language filter and the channel subscription;
• the opening line of the verification prompt;
• the karma message;
• the anti-spam warning.

The notices for stickers, GIFs, stories, bot mentions and required words keep their standard text. The list also shows the "I'm not a robot" confirmation, the rest of the verification prompt and the ban notice, but the bot does not use your versions of those yet.

Tap a notice to rewrite it. The variables shown under it, like {$username} or {$duration}, are filled in by the bot. Premium emoji work: use the 😀 button in the editor, and members with Telegram Premium see them animated, others see a regular emoji. Reset to default brings the original text back.

Group language

In Group Localization, Group Language sets the language of the bot's standard notices in this group.

Translate messages to user's language is for multilingual groups: the bot then writes each notice in the language of the member it is addressed to, instead of the group language. Your own custom texts are shown as you wrote them.

The language filter lives in the same section.