โ๏ธ Chat Settings
Group-wide settings for the agent in your Telegram group: its language, who counts as a new member, what moderation skips, and emergency switches such as Lockdown Mode.
In the webappโ
Open your workspace, select the Telegram group under Channels in the sidebar, then select Agent Settings. Its tabs are General, New Member Definition and Import. Changes save with the Save bar at the bottom of the page.
- General holds the group's general agent settings and the Custom Bot card. See Bot Customization.
- New Member Definition decides who counts as a new member. It's shared with Message Filters and Smart Triggers. Choose Joined within X days, Never sent a message, or both, and set Match mode to Both (both conditions must be true) or Either (one is enough).
- Import brings settings over from another bot. See Importing from another bot.
In Telegram (bot menu)โ
Send /settings and open โ๏ธ Chat Settings, or send /chat_settings. Toggles show ๐ข when on and ๐ด when off.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Language (for example ๐ฌ๐ง English) | The language of the agent's menus, system messages, notifications and error messages. It doesn't change members' messages or custom messages you've written. Options: English, Espaรฑol, Portuguรชs, Franรงais, Deutsch, ะ ัััะบะธะน, ุงูุนุฑุจูุฉ, ไธญๆ, Tรผrkรงe, Polski. |
| ๐จ Bot Customization | Run the agent under your own Telegram bot. See Bot Customization. |
| ๐ค New User Definition | Who counts as a new member. See below. |
| ๐ Exception List | Domains and mentions that moderation skips. See below. |
| Linked Chat Response | Reply to posts forwarded into the group from its linked channel. See below. |
| Remove System Messages | Deletes Telegram's service messages, such as "User joined the group", "User left the group", "User was added byโฆ", photo and title changes, and removals. |
| Strict Moderation | Removes all links (including shortened ones), media (photos, videos, documents, audio, stickers, GIFs), mentions and forwarded messages. Plain text, emojis and bot commands are still allowed. |
| Lockdown Mode | Kicks every new member who joins. Existing members stay. |
| Silent Commands | Suppresses the agent's confirmations for admin actions, such as "User has been banned!" or "User has been muted!". |
| Privacy Mode | Limits what non-admin members can see of certain group data and feature output. The agent confirms with "๐ Privacy mode enabled!" or "Privacy mode disabled!". |
While Lockdown Mode is on, nobody new can join, and Strict Moderation reduces the chat to plain text. Turn them off once the situation is over.
New User Definitionโ
Filters, spam detection and other features can apply stricter rules to new members. Choose who counts as new:
| Option | New members areโฆ |
|---|---|
| Never sent a message | Members who haven't posted in the group yet. They stop counting as new after their first message. |
| Joined within days | Members who joined within the number of days you set, for example 7 or 30. |
| Combination | Both rules together, in AND or OR mode. |
To set up a combination:
- Open ๐ค New User Definition and select โ Combination.
- Select Set days and send the number of days.
- Select ๐ง Mode to switch between AND and OR. The agent confirms, for example: "Mode selected: OR! New users will include those that have never sent a message OR joined within the past 360 days."
AND counts only members who match both rules; OR counts members who match either.
Exception Listโ
| List | What it skips |
|---|---|
| ๐ Domains | Links to these domains, for example example.com, aren't moderated. |
| ๐ฅ Users | Mentions of these users (their @tags) aren't moderated. |
The Users list only covers mentions of those users, not messages they post. To exempt a member's own messages from moderation, use the User Whitelist.
Linked Chat Responseโ
When a Telegram channel is linked to your group, its posts appear in the group automatically. With this setting on, the agent replies to each one with a notice. The default is:
๐ข This message comes from a linked channel.
- Open Linked Chat Response and turn it on.
- Optionally, select Set Message to write your own reply, or Reset to restore the default.
For an album (several photos or videos in one post), the agent replies once, not once per file. Your group needs a linked channel, set up in Telegram's group settings, for this to do anything. If no reply appears, also check the agent can post messages.