Scarabeus Journal

Updates

What changed in Scarabeus: new features, fixes and improvements.

UpdatesSeptember 15, 20262 min read
Forums: separate moderation in every topic
Every forum topic gets its own moderation settings, AI rules and balance spend, while the chat-wide settings stay the minimum for all.
UpdatesSeptember 5, 20262 min read
Member trust
Every member now has a trust level, from very low to very high. The bot is stricter with newcomers, and long-timers can be skipped.
UpdatesAugust 25, 20264 min read
AI moderation grew a settings panel
Your own rules in plain words, a separate punishment for every topic, control over what the balance is spent on, and auto top-up.
UpdatesAugust 4, 20262 min read
Punishment reasons, appeals and in-group commands
The bot explains what it punished you for, members can contest it, and a moderator can confirm or undo it in direct messages.
UpdatesJuly 15, 20262 min read
AI moderation
A new block hands every message to a language model: you tick the topics it should watch for and it catches them in any wording, in text and in photos.
UpdatesJune 30, 20262 min read
Sign-in, chat permissions and 15 interface languages
Password-free Telegram sign-in, permissions granted one item at a time, a member profile page, and the interface in fifteen languages.
UpdatesJune 16, 20262 min read
Links, regular expressions and the rest of the rule blocks
Link moderation with modes and separate punishments, regex rules with a tester, a member allowlist, and cleaning up Telegram's service messages.
UpdatesMay 28, 20262 min read
The moderation log, the activity log and chat statistics
Two logs with filters and message search, activity charts, and punishments straight from the dashboard — ban, mute, kick and unban without opening Telegram.
UpdatesMay 12, 20263 min read
Phrase moderation and punishment chains
A builder for phrase rules with connectors, distance and exceptions, rule sets, punishment chains, and two simple blocks — text length and duplicates.
UpdatesApril 21, 20262 min read
The Scarabeus dashboard and connecting your own bot
A dashboard for Scarabeus, connecting your own bot with a token from @BotFather, several chats and bots on one account, and basic group stats.