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February 5, 2026, 9:17am
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It could create a broadcast channel for its users to join and invite a user to this channel if they try to send a direct message to the bot. It could send the app on each new version and then resend it for each new joiner.
The same could be implemented for a webxdc store bot.
Related:
(Let me redraft this topic with more actionable wording)
A publisher sends a private message to the bot and receives some help text in return. Then typing /new there would create a new channel and a corresponding private control group and invite the publisher user there.
The initial publisher may invite further co-authors and bots (e.g., RSS & Atom feed reader) to this control group. Slash commands are allowed, but only for the original publisher initially (tokens are made up):
/help
/admin …
Did you know we have an index of available public bots? you can check it online here: https://deltachat-bot.github.io/public-bots/
or even better, inside Delta Chat itself with extra features like checking the online status of the bots:
if you are a bot creator and would like your public bot to be listed, comment here with:
the bot’s contact/invite QR
bot’s language (ex. if the bot talks in English to the users)
short description for the index listing
nick of the bot’s admin and optionally …
SimpleBot is a free/libre software, pluginable bot for Delta Chat written in Python, features depend on the installed plugins, think of it as a Lego robot. It is still a work in progress and isn’t well documented yet, but here are some instances running already:
To see the list of plugins a given bot support and the commands to use them, send a message to the bot with text:
/help
The source code can be found here: