🔐 Captcha & Joins • Captcha's works for Join requests now you just need to enable captcha and welcome it will dm users with captcha • Full captcha config on webapp • New /captchaattempts command 📚 Help & Auto Rules • Category-based help menu with drill-down navigation • Fuzzy search on help page • Auto Rules now expandable — tap to see conditions and actions ⚡️ New Commands • /generate, /revoke, /links — invite lin…

Channel
Bot Lab | Ash Updates
@BotLabUpdates
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Posts · Cite this entry
258subscribers
-7 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001221451355 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @BotLabUpdates |
| Created | Between 1 March 2018 and 31 July 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 7 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 4 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 3 times, most recently 7 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/BotLabUpdates |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Aug 2026, 20:24 | 258 | -4 |
| 15 Aug 2026, 16:08 | 262 | -3 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 09:02 | 265 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 13:44 | 265 | first reading |
Engagement
16 posts held, back to 28 November 2025 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 16 posts for this entry, the most recent from 29 June 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
🔥 Ash — Major Update 📱 Webapp • Complete rebuild as a modern and responsive design • Detailed profile page with avatar and user info • New pages: Notes, Filters, Blacklists, Warns, Personal Tasks 📊 Statistics • Per-group statistics with interactive charts • Time range picker for different periods 🛡 Moderation • Full mod action logging — every action tracked • Mod Log page with timeline layout • Event log system ac…
Ash Bot — v2.6 Added /lock checklist to lock checklist messages Improved strings which fixes some minor string issues on greetings and few other modules
Ash Bot — v2.5 · What's New ⚔️ Pokémon 📈 Leveling & /locklevel ✅ Tasks ⚙️ Auto Rules 🔒 Locks · Regex Filters · Warns 🎮 Pokémon Captcha · Antiflood tmute · Themed Messages 🤖 Guest Bot 🐛 Bug Fixes 🌐 Language & Translation
Language & Translation Ash Bot now has full i18n support — every user-facing message runs through a translation layer, making the bot ready to support any language. /lang — View available languages and switch the bot's language for your group Want to help translate? All translations are managed on Crowdin — no coding needed: 1. Visit crowdin.com/project/ashgo 2. Create a free Crowdin account and join the project…
Bug Fixes • Federation quiet toggle was silently flipping the wrong policy — fixed • /rules was gated on the wrong disabled-command key — fixed • Report DMs were pulling the wrong user ID in private chats — fixed • Crash when reporting a reply to an anonymous admin message — fixed • Anti-spam let one extra message through due to an off-by-one — fixed • /setfloodmode action prompt was rendering HTML tags as literal t…
Guest Bot Tag the bot in any chat to use it inline — no need to add it to a group. Pokémon @AshKetchumRobot pokedex <name/id> @AshKetchumRobot starter · mycollection · pokestats Anime / Manga @AshKetchumRobot anime <title> · manga · character · quote @AshKetchumRobot watchlist · readlist Stickers @AshKetchumRobot kang — reply to a sticker to import it @AshKetchumRobot packkang · stickers · mypacks @AshKetchumRobo…
Pokémon Captcha /captchamode pokemon — New members must correctly identify a Pokémon to join the group. Also supports math and text modes. Antiflood — tmute mode Antiflood now supports tmute as a flood punishment. Instead of a permanent mute, flooding users are restricted for a configurable duration. /setfloodmode tmute 1h — supports m/h/d/w An Unmute button is shown to admins in the flood action message. Group S…
Locks /lock reaction — Block reactions from non-admins /lock outchatreaction — Block reactions from outside the chat /lock guestbot — Block guest bot spam /lock botmention — Block @bot mentions in messages /lock hashtag — Block #hashtag spam All locks support punishments (-p ban/kick/mute) and auto-warn thresholds (-w 3). Use /locklevel to let high-rank trainers bypass any lock automatically. Regex Filters /refil…
Auto Rules Build smart triggers without any extra setup. /rule add <name> --if <condition> --do <action> /rule list · /rule toggle · /rule delete 18 trigger conditions — message text, media type, links, mentions, join events, trainer level, and more. Includes user_join_time to trigger based on how recently a user joined (e.g. user_join_time:<2d). 11 actions: • delete — remove the message • warn — issue a warning …
Tasks Assign and track tasks directly inside your group. /task Fix README --due 2h — Create a task with a deadline /task @user Design banner — Assign it to someone /tasks — All active tasks in the group /mytasks — Your personal task list /tasknotify on/off — Toggle DM reminders for your tasks The assignee is notified on creation and reminded again as the deadline approaches.
Leveling Earn XP just by chatting. Climb through trainer ranks: Bug Catcher → Youngster → Pokémon Trainer → Ace Trainer → Gym Leader → Elite Four → Champion Your rank is automatically applied as your profile tag when you level up. /rank — Your trainer card /top — Group leaderboard /levelconfig — Set XP per message, cooldown, and level-up notification settings /locklevel — Ties lock exemptions to trainer rank. Fo…
Showing the 12 most recent of 16 posts we hold for @BotLabUpdates. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 22 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Bot Lab | Ash Updates” (@BotLabUpdates), 258 subscribers as measured 22 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/BotLabUpdates.
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