Cross-posting
Submitting a post to partnered groups, the approval step, and scheduled reposts
Partnered communities advertise in each other's groups. The publisher is how that happens without fifty admins copying an image around by hand: a post is submitted once, approved once, and delivered on a schedule to the groups that agreed to receive posts.
/publish/divulgar/publicarSubmits the channel post you replied to for publishing.
It must be a reply, the replied-to message must come from a channel, and it must carry a photo, video or GIF. Each of those three has its own refusal, so you know which one you hit.
/repost/reenviar/repostarSchedules the message you replied to to be reposted in this group. Admins only.
/repost 3 means three days. A plain member gets "You are not a group admin!" and nothing is scheduled.
/deletereposts/apagarposts/deletepostsCancels this group's scheduled posts. Admins only.
It cancels what has not been sent yet. Posts already delivered are not touched.
Submitting a post
- A member replies
/publishto the channel post they want shared. - The bot's owner approves it. Nothing reaches any group before that — the approval press has to come from the approval chat, and one from anywhere else is ignored.
- A daily sweep delivers approved posts to groups that accept them, spread out rather than all at once.
A group that has turned off receiving posts gets nothing, and the scheduled post for it is dropped rather than queued forever.
Being offered a post
When Telegram auto-forwards a linked channel's post into the group, the bot can offer to put it into the publishing queue: an accept and a decline button under the post. Turn that offer off and the bot says nothing at all when those forwards arrive.
The four settings
All four live in /config, and all four are per group.
| Setting | Default | What it decides |
|---|---|---|
| Publisher Post | off | Whether approved posts are delivered into this group. Meant for groups over ~50 members |
| Publisher Ask | on | Whether the bot offers to queue a channel post that lands here |
| Max Posts | 3 | How many posts the bot may deliver here per day |
| Publisher Members Only | off | Whether only channel members may submit |
| Thread Posts | unset | Which forum topic delivered posts land in, for groups with topics |
Two switches, two directions. Publisher Post is about what this group receives; Publisher Ask is about what this group offers to send. A group that wants to advertise but not be advertised in wants the second on and the first off.