[SimpleX] BitcoinTalk notification bot (mentions, merits, topics, users)

[Text]

Thanks! You don't have to. The lightning icon seems to be related to a live chat feature SimpleX has where the user sees what you're typing as you type, nothing to do with the bot. There is a delay when answering which is just how long the SimpleX client takes to receive and answer the message.

Ah that makes sense now  thanks for the clarification! The delay isn’t an issue for me as long as everything works reliably and so far it’s been smooth. Appreciate the work you’re putting into this it’s shaping up nicely!

Quick question then: I received a notification about your reply (which is great) but I also got notifications from a new topic where I wasn’t mentioned and a new reply in a thread where I wasn’t mentioned either. Is that expected behaviour or could it be picking up extra stuff unintentionally?

[TryNinja]

Quick question then: I received a notification about your reply (which is great) but I also got notifications from a new topic where I wasn’t mentioned and a new reply in a thread where I wasn’t mentioned either. Is that expected behaviour or could it be picking up extra stuff unintentionally?

Well, your username is "text" so I guess someone is writing "I read this text on xxx..." and it's treating it as a mention to you.

It's 4 am here so I'm about to go to bed, but tomorrow I'll add an option to notify only direct mentions and quotes. That is, @Text and actual quotes to your post, not the mention of the word "text'.

[TryNinja]

@Text

Update is live.

You can enable mention notifications for @tags and quotes with /only_direct

Also fixed a bug where tracked phrase notifications would be sent twice. I'm also trying something to prevent the bot from going down.

[God Of Thunder]

Oh hell,
I never knew it was even possible to run a bot on simplex. I am not that familiar with SimpleX. I guess I used it more than a year ago when one of my forum friends invited me to join SimpleX to have a chat. It seems SimpleX is getting popular. Even TryNinja decided to create a notifier bot for SimpleX users. Hmm, this is something cool. I have to re-install SimpleX and see how it works. It seems some crypto projects also use SimpleX.

[DYING_S0UL]

Finally the long waited update is here. I must test this asap!  
Just noticed this topic and already started the bot, let's see whether the bot works properly or not. The reality is, your notifier bot was the only reason for which some of the users were using telegram. But now with this new bot, we can uninstall that full of scammers app and shift to simpleX. Lets hope, it works without issue..

Knock knock, will someone mention/quote me? 

[arabspaceship123]

SimpleX isn't used by many ppl so I didn't expect a notification bot for their apps. I'm going to download SimpleX. It's helpful you're starting with handy features

- Mention notifications
- Merit notifications
- Tracked topics
- Tracked phrases
- Tracked users
- Ignored users

@Text

Update is live.

You can enable mention notifications for @tags and quotes with /only_direct

Also fixed a bug where tracked phrase notifications would be sent twice. I'm also trying something to prevent the bot from going down.

[takuma sato]

SimpleX isn't used by many ppl so I didn't expect a notification bot for their apps. I'm going to download SimpleX. It's helpful you're starting with handy features

- Mention notifications
- Merit notifications
- Tracked topics
- Tracked phrases
- Tracked users
- Ignored users

@Text

Update is live.

You can enable mention notifications for @tags and quotes with /only_direct

Also fixed a bug where tracked phrase notifications would be sent twice. I'm also trying something to prevent the bot from going down.

I have not used SimpleX yet but I have been reading about it for a while. It looks like the best messaging app out there on paper. The rest of messaging apps have all sold out to this insane "enter your phone number to use" requeriment instead of using good ol username systems without verifications. I think I will give it a try. I will see if I can install it on linux Debian, does anyone use it here?

[paid2]

I have not used SimpleX yet but I have been reading about it for a while. It looks like the best messaging app out there on paper. The rest of messaging apps have all sold out to this insane "enter your phone number to use" requeriment instead of using good ol username systems without verifications. I think I will give it a try. I will see if I can install it on linux Debian, does anyone use it here?

Yes, you can use SimpleX on Debian, and also on any Debian-based OS of course (like Mint, Ubuntu etc..). You can use it through an Appimage or install it via Flatpak. It's stable and running fine.

https://simplex.chat/downloads/#desktop-app

[DYING_S0UL]

Apparently the bot worked without any issue so far. And I noticed no such delay in notification on SimpleX, which is certainly a good thing, because it is known for it's delay in messages. Btw, both the telegram one and the simpleX one, delivered the notification at the same time.

I have not used SimpleX yet but I have been reading about it for a while. It looks like the best messaging app out there on paper. The rest of messaging apps have all sold out to this insane "enter your phone number to use" requeriment instead of using good ol username systems without verifications. I think I will give it a try. I will see if I can install it on linux Debian, does anyone use it here?

Yes, you can use SimpleX on Debian, and also on any Debian-based OS of course (like Mint, Ubuntu etc..). You can use it through an Appimage or install it via Flatpak. It's stable and running fine.

The dev team has certainly improved their app drastically. But in the past it had many bugs and glitches like backup data corruption, message delay, error in importing and syncing, for which, I almost stopped using it. They also lacked desktop support before. But now, I can say, newcomers can also use it without any major problems.

[apogio]

Apparently the bot worked without any issue so far. And I noticed no such delay in notification on SimpleX, which is certainly a good thing, because it is known for it's delay in messages. Btw, both the telegram one and the simpleX one, delivered the notification at the same time.

It's funny because I 've mentioned you and it worked for you on both apps.
But for me, when I got some replies today, I kept receiving notifications on TG only. For some reason I don't receive notifications from SimpleX.
I will re-adjust my notification settings and perhaps try to disable and re-enable the notifications for mentions and tags manually it see if it works.

[DYING_S0UL]

It's funny because I 've mentioned you and it worked for you on both apps.
But for me, when I got some replies today, I kept receiving notifications on TG only. For some reason I don't receive notifications from SimpleX.
I will re-adjust my notification settings and perhaps try to disable and re-enable the notifications for mentions and tags manually it see if it works.

Try disabling the battery optimization for simpleX app, and also enable autostart and always running in background option as well. Sometimes the notification delay or the message not coming through are caused because of this.

p.s: I was just notified on both the platforms for the quote you did.

[un_rank]

Great work TryNinja. I regularly use the telegram app, so it is no an inconvenience for me to run the bot there, but I will try out SimpleX to see which I prefer and also maybe see how else I can use the platform.

- Jay -

[yhiaali3]

Thank you TryNinja for creating this bot, Excellent as always.
I don't actually use SimpleX, so I haven't tried the bot, but it looks interesting, so I'll give it a try later.

I've been using your bot for Telegram notifications, and it works perfectly for me, both on the desktop and mobile apps. I receive all the necessary notifications regularly without any glitches so far.

I'll leave the SimpleX bot as an optional extra if I encounter any issues with the Telegram bot. Thank you

[dkbit98]

Ok, so I'm learning how SimpleX works as I code and debug, so bear with me. I think that unlike Telegram, which is very straightforward to send notifications since their servers do all the work behind the scenes, with SimpleX sometimes the user isn't connected and the notification just can't be sent. I refactored the code and now if the user isn't connected the notification data will be stored and it will retry when they do get connected. Hopefully it works.

Yeah I know, that is why I asked if simpleX chat app needs to be opened
I think this workaround fixed the bug I first faces, and I received a bunch of notifications when I opened my app.
If I notice anything else I will report it here, but I didn't notice how to ignore specific topic from notifications in /help command.

[TryNinja]

If I notice anything else I will report it here, but I didn't notice how to ignore specific topic from notifications in /help command.

Just implemented that.

/ignoretopic ID - Adds ignored topic
/del_ignoretopic ID - Deletes a ignored topic
/list_ignoretopics - Lists ignored topics

Great work TryNinja. I regularly use the telegram app, so it is no an inconvenience for me to run the bot there, but I will try out SimpleX to see which I prefer and also maybe see how else I can use the platform.

If you're fine with Telegram I rather use that, to be honest. The notification and the bot UX just looks better due to the maturity of their client.

But if you want more privacy and doesn't want your data (i.e phone number) linked to the account, that's what SimpleX is for. I hope they make the UI/UX better with time so more people use it.

[LoyceV]

/del_ignoretopic ID - Deletes a ignored topic

Wouldn't "unignoretopic" make more sense?

[TryNinja]

/del_ignoretopic ID - Deletes a ignored topic

Wouldn't "unignoretopic" make more sense?

Tried to keep a pattern because there is del_phrase, del_user, etc... how do I name all of that? Can't do unphrase.

[SFR10]

For those who don't like or use Telegram, here is a notification bot for SimpleX.

I'm one of those who didn't like using Telegram for any kind of bot, but this SimpleX bot quickly became an important part of my setup ^{[I had to re-add an old CRT monitor for the sake of always having your notification bot on the side (that's how important it is, so thank you very much for developing such a thing)]}.

A couple of notes:
- Is it possible to add the first few words of a topic to the result of /list_topics command?
- I tried deleting a phrase, but it appears it automatically got added back after I tried to double-check my phrase list ^{[is it because I was tracking only a single word, as opposed to a phrase?]}: Screenshot

[TryNinja]

- Is it possible to add the first few words of a topic to the result of /list_topics command?

Yes, that's on the list to be done.

- I tried deleting a phrase, but it appears it automatically got added back after I tried to double-check my phrase list ^{[is it because I was tracking only a single word, as opposed to a phrase?]}: Screenshot

Thanks, you should be able to delete them now. Please try again.

[SFR10]

Thanks, you should be able to delete them now. Please try again.

I just did and it appears to be fixed... Thank you for the prompt action