⁣5 YEARS
Today is the fifth anniversary of Group Help and it is really nice to be here to celebrate this, once again with exceptional achievements over the last year.
Not long ago we exceeded the 500,000 groups in which the bot is an administrator, the messages that the bot processes every day are fivefold compared to a year ago and this required a huge continuous work of optimization and management of server resources.

🏃🏻 The bot never stops and we also never stop working for the Bot: even in the periods when no updates come out, we are always working to ensure that the Bot is active as efficiently as possible and to solve all those small problems, bugs and improvements that you report to us every day.

💡 Of course we are also developing new features, and we hope to be able to release them soon, but at the moment our top priority is to ensure a certain and stable future for Group Help, to the best of our abilities and resources.

📁 Today, therefore, we are announcing only some news:
• We have created the block for users with names in Russian, which can be activated from Settings ➜ Checks ➜ Name blocks
• We have created the command /warnmute or /wm which warns the user and mutes it (if you indicate a duration, it will be used only for mute)
• If you add @GHSecurityBot both in group and log channel, manual actions that administrators perform in the group (not only via the bot) will also be logged (ban, mute, new admin, etc...)
• You can set up a poll as a repeating message (Settings ➜ Repeated messages) and to ensure that the votes are preserved, the poll you set will simply be forwarded (so if the original one is deleted, the bot will stop sending it)
• We have added a new mini-game accessible with the command /game to celebrate this anniversary

Thanks a lot to everyone for these 5 years and see you soon with other news 😉

⁣#update #8December

Good evening everyone, today we are releasing an update which, in addition to the innovations directly linked to the latest Telegram update, contains also other innovations that we have introduced in recent weeks.

😶‍🌫️ Users masked as channels
With the new update, Telegram allows each user to be able to write in groups, hiding through one of the channel where is the owner. This action can be abused both to spam and to do other harm in the groups of others.
For this reason we have created a new menu from which you can decide to prevent users from writing masked through channels, leaving them normally free to send messages directly with their profile.
To access it just send /config in the group, and select "Masked users", everything is explained in detail.

👉🏻 For now, we recommend that you select the "ban" option and activate message deletion, to keep your groups safe.
In fact, until new future updates, messages sent through a channel are ignored by the bot and therefore the classic checks and punishments (antispam, antiflood, etc.) will not be triggered.
On the other hand, it is possible to manually ban and unban channels using the classic commands /ban and /unban.

🤫 Silent commands
We have created a "silent" version of the classic commands to manually punish users:
• /sban, /sunban
• /skick
• /smute, /sunmute
• /swarn, /sunwarn
that perform the classic action, but sending message in private chat to the user who launches the command, instead of sending the classic message in the group.

🆕 Welcome and rules
The menu for setting the group regulation has been completely restyled and now allows you to set the message in a simpler way. Also it is now possible to set a media in the regulation.
The menu for setting the welcome message has also been similarly rearranged.
When exporting a /backup it is now possible to choose whether to export the welcome and /or the regulation, regardless of the other settings, so as not to overwrite them in the group where the backup is imported.

💥 Self-destruct messages 2.0
Telegram has introduced some time ago the possibility of self-destructing group messages, so we decided to evolve this function and make it usable only by PRO groups.
From now on it's possible:
• to select the type of messages to be deleted by the bot (text, photo/video, sticker/gif...)
• select which users to have messages deleted (based on roles)

🔤 Banned Words 2: Check on name
For ULTRAPRO groups, within the second list of banned words, it is possible to activate the check that these words are also present in the data of the user (name, surname, username) who sends the message, as well as on the message itself, possibly triggering a classic punishment and/or the deletion of the message.

📁 Other news
• When setting the exceptions for the Antispam it is now possible to forward a message from a channel that you want to whitelist, so as to make the control more secure and functional.
• We will continue to develop new features made possible by the new Telegram update: more updates will come in the coming weeks.

⁣#update #23December

Good evening everyone, today we are releasing the latest update of 2021 which includes other innovations directly linked to the latest Telegram update.

🔗 Link with approval
For a few weeks now, Telegram gives the possibility to create group links that require users' approval before they can join the group.
We have created a new option, found in Settings ➜ Approval mode, that allows you to delegate the management of approvals to the bot.

In that menu everything is explained in detail, basically the advantages are:
• captcha to be resolved privately before the user joins the group
• carry out checks on the users before they join
• send the welcome message in private instead of in the group

🧠 New captchas
We have created 3 new Captcha types, which are particularly interesting especially when used with the Approval mode:
• Regulation: the group regulation is shown to the user and can decide whether to accept it or not.
• Math: a simple mathematical operation is sent to the user and the user must select the correct answer.
• Quiz: the user is asked a question of your choice and the user must select the correct answer.

😶‍🌫️ Users masked as channels 2.0
• If you don't activate the option to completely block the possibility of writing via channel (added in our previous update), the bot will carry out the normal checks (antispam, antiflood, words banned, etc...) also on the messages of users who write via channel. Recall that the punishment affects only the channel with which the user is writing (and his other channels) but not the user himself.
• It is now possible to assign the roles on the bot side to a channel: moderator, cleaner, muter, helper: if a channel is set as a moderator, the channel owner (writing via the channel) will be able to carry out the classic commands of a moderator (ban, kick, mute, etc...)
• The multiban, multikick, multimute, etc... commands now allow channels to be punished as well.

📁 Other news
• You can activate the scheduled deletion of regulation from Settings ➜ Deleting messages ➜ Scheduled deletion
• Pinned messages will not be deleted by self-destruct messages.
• The name of the link used by the user to join the group appears in the log channel (if using ghsecuritybot).
• The log channel shows who has approved a user, if the approvals are not handled by the bot (and if using ghsecuritybot).
• The /link command (for admins) has been significantly improved and now also allows you to create links with approval. From now on it is also possible to give a name to the generated link.
Example: /link 2h 10i link name (link lasting 2 hours with a maximum of 10 joins)

We take this opportunity to wish you all the best for the upcoming Christmas and Happy New Year holidays!

⁣#update #7November

Good evening everyone, today we release a new update of the bot, related to the latest Telegram Update, with other news too.

🪧 Message as first comment
For discussion groups (connected to a channel), it's now possible to set a message that will be sent as the first comment of each channel post:
Settings ➜ Other ➜ Discussion group ➜ First comment


🗂 Forum groups with Topics
The bot works correctly in groups where Topics are active.

In particular:
• the bot settings are the same in all topics of the group
• the bot replies to commands in the same topic in which they are launched
• the bot sends the punishment messages in the same topic in which they are triggered
• the administrators (and also the virtual roles) are the same in all topics
• any punishment, given in a topic, applies to the group and therefore also to the other topics

🕑 Recurring messages in Topics
For each single recurring message it's possible to select the topic in which to send it:
Settings ➜ Other ➜ Recurring messages ➜ select one of the posts ➜ Customize message ➜ Select a Topic

💬 Welcome message in Topics
You can choose which topic to send all Welcome messages to:
Settings ➜ Welcome ➜ Customize message ➜ Select a Topic

🧠 Captcha in Topics
You can choose which topic to send all the messages of the Captcha to:
Settings ➜ Captcha ➜ Select a Topic

🗯 Service messages in Topics
You can now choose to delete the "Topic closed" and "Topic reopened" service messages.
Settings ➜ Deleting messages ➜ Service messages

Soon some of these things may be changed in future and other Topic-related functions will be added, also based on Telegram updates.

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