2 sats \ 1 reply \ @036db21182 20 Aug 2021 freebie \ parent \ on: Open source @LightningTipBot ⚡️ for Telegram (GitHub link in comments). Made with love for tipping memes in large groups. It's not much but it's honest work! bitcoin
Hello.
I just tried it, here some comments:
Chatting 1 to 1 with the bot and initial funding worked fine.
I then added the bot to a test group and the experience was not great: most of the interactions were in the private user/bot chat channel and not much was visible to group users.
Example:
/help would not show the help in the group so that group users get an idea of what was going on.
/send did not show in the group that anything was being done, or even that the recipient got SATs at all
/tip worked well however after some time figuring out how to use it.
Anyway, those look like small issues and the not looks very promising !
Thanks and take care
Hi and thanks for trying out the bot!
You are right, the bot tries to minimize its interaction with a channel. This is by design. If you give the bot admin rights in a channel, it will even delete all the commands that users execute such that it leaves nearly no traces in a channel. Only the tip reply and send commands stay visible in the channel – everything else is between the bot and the user. This is all intentional, as the bot is made for large groups where clutter is a real problem.
There is basically a set of private (only via PM) and a set of public (in a group) commands. If the bot detects a private command in a public channel, it will respond in a private chat only (and delete the command from the channel, if the bot has admin rights). I hope I could clarify our design ideas a bit. If this remains an UX issue, I think we should try to communicate this a bit better to the user.
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