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👻 Good news, everyone! Hey everyone, it's us again. Today we have two topics, and both matter: one is about updates in @AximoBot (we haven't forgotten about it), the other is about X (Twitter). So, we nearly got @download_it_bot blocked, and here's why. X, aka Twitter, is full of adult content. It does have moderation, but it works in a strange way, because the same place also holds outright illegal content that doesn't fit into any framework at all, not even 18+. So we ran an audit, looked at…

🔭 Good news, everyone! Hey everyone! We've written a few times that @AximoBot would eventually split into two bots, with the direct connection, meaning forwarding from Telegram channels and chats through your own account, moving to a separate one. Well, it's all finished and moved over. Everyone who was using the direct connection has been transferred by us, you don't need to do anything. To be clear: Telegram hasn't gone anywhere in Aximo, it reads public channels just like before, along with …

👻 Good news, everyone! Hey everyone, it's us again. As always, there's a pile of changes, and this time many are global ones affecting all of our bots, plus a bit on individual ones. Let's go. The biggest update: we completely rebuilt how the trial period works. You don't have to enable it anywhere anymore. If the account qualifies, meaning you've never taken a trial before, it turns on by itself. — For @download_it_bot, @InstantMediaBot and @voice_remover_bot you get the top premium plan for…

💥 Good news, everyone! Especially for @download_it_bot users! Hey everyone, it's us again. We're putting @Aximo update announcements on pause for now, though there's still plenty coming there. Right now it's about your favorite downloader, and a whole lot of news has piled up here, so get comfortable. Let's start with the main thing. — A super-duper update: most of our traffic comes from YouTube, so we've seriously beefed up its support. You can now just send the bot a link to a channel and it…

☄️ Good news, everyone! Especially for @Aximo users! Hey everyone, it's us again. Yes, yes, yes, @Aximo again: we've finally finished almost everything we wanted to. Next week we'll take a break from the news, because a pile of updates and changes to the other bots has built up and we want to cover those too. But for now, let's go through the list. Let's start with the main thing. We'd long hit the limits of the current architecture: Aximo housed both the logic for fetching data from social ne…

🖥 Good news, everyone! It's us again and again about @Aximo: like we said, there's a whole lot of changes, so let's carry on. — A broken source now has its own marker in the list instead of "disabled by you". Nobody kills your subscription, and we periodically re-check the sources and revive the ones that answered. — A super cool feature: logo removal from images. Not blurring, actual removal. You draw a box around the logo once on a sample photo, and from then on the bot finds it in every new…

📲 Good news, everyone! Especially for @Aximo users! Yes, yes, it's us again with features and new stuff. But first an important announcement for premium users who use the direct connection. Since that's a completely different architectural solution, in one or two weeks we're moving that logic into a separate bot, @RoutifyBot. It's almost like @Aximo, but built exclusively for Telegram sources, with all the bonuses that come with it: instant delivery, copying message history, syncing edits, file…

🙂 Good news, everyone! Especially for @Aximo users! Hey everyone, it's us again and again about Aximo: like we warned, there's a whole lot of news and changes. The most interesting part for you is that we reset the "free trial used" flag for everyone, absolutely everyone who had it before October 1. So if that's relevant to you, you can try the premium features for free again. And now to the features, we changed a lot of things, both for paid plans and free ones. — An important note about vide…

⚡️ Good news, everyone! And we're continuing to report on what we've built into Aximo, features and everything else. The main change, of course, is that all settings, both global and per-source, moved into the mini app, because that's the only place where we could properly build an editor, dropdowns, checkboxes and all the other things you're used to. And that let us do a lot of cool stuff, since before we were simply blocked by the limits of a chat. Alright, let's go through the changes: — We…

🔥 Good news, everyone! We've been working toward this for a long time and can finally announce it: @AximoBot has been completely rebuilt. Get comfortable, because there's going to be a lot of news, over the next three or four weeks we'll be writing mostly about your favorite bot for delivering posts from social media and RSS. News number one: the bot is now available not just as @AximoBot but also simply as @Aximo. We bought the name quite a while ago, but never got around to upgrading the bot…

🆕 Good news, everyone! It's us again, and let's start with the most important thing: we completely reworked how the free period for trying out the bots' premium features is given out! No more linking a card or picking a plan upfront. The scheme is simple: you start the trial (if you haven't already) and that's it. With @download_it_bot you can download ANY 10 links from the services the bot supports. Only successful downloads count. For @voice_remover_bot we give out free processing runs, for …

👀 Good news, everyone! Unexpectedly, it's us again. Yes, we published news just a few days ago, but we've piled up so many changes that releasing them bit by bit would stretch out over several months. So let's continue. There's a separate mega post coming for @AximoBot, and there'll probably be three or four of those in a row, so for now let's go through the rest of the bots. We've done plenty there too. So, updates, fixes, improvements: @download_it_bot and @InstantMediaBot — MEGA NEWS! There…

☄️ Good news, everyone! Especially for @download_it_bot and @InstantMediaBot users! Hey everyone! We've been busy, as usual. This time we sat down to optimize the downloader, our servers were already on fire from the load, and got a little carried away. So, as always, a whole pile of updates, improvements and changes. — Downloads got 3-5x faster, and up to 20x from distant servers. We spent a week digging into why the same files would sometimes fly and sometimes crawl: the problem wasn't the s…

✖️ Good (and bad) news, everyone! Let's start with the most important thing, and it's about @AximoBot. Twitter, aka X.com, decided to declare war on every service that pulls their data, and buried them under threats of lawsuits. So our Twitter support went down for several days, since we were running something similar ourselves and it all got cut off. We found a couple of alternative solutions, of course, but they're very limited. Right now, for free users we can only support so-called public a…

🎉 Good news, everyone! Especially for @AximoBot users! Hey again, everyone! We're still hard at work moving Aximo over to the new logic, we seriously underestimated the amount of work involved, so we'll fully wrap it up closer to the first half of September. In the process we lost some things, gained some others. Fair warning: we're reworking a lot, plans, prices and the feature list, so while you still can, grab it at the old prices. Also, since there were some glitches for a while, we've adde…

✍️ Good news, everyone! Especially for @download_it_bot users! The system's been shaky for a few days, we looked into it and got a bit shocked: roughly 0.5% of users were generating around 20% of the total load. So we'll soon be tightening some limits a bit and adding automatic checks, since the other 99.5% were suffering because of it and that needed fixing. Now for your favorite segment: improvements and new features: — Launched a discount coupon system: whoever reads the news first gets luc…

🔔 Good news, everyone! Hey everyone, we're up to our necks working on @AximoBot, but we haven't forgotten about the other bots either. We've got plenty to show off, so let's go. Let's start with @download_it_bot: — Spun up a separate pool of Russian proxies, delivery from VK, Yandex and Odnoklassniki got noticeably more stable. — Added support for streams and podcasts, including Twitter Spaces, important note: only finished podcasts and streams can be downloaded. — A reminder that the bot supp…

🔵 Good news, everyone! Especially for @AximoBot users! We haven't written about Aximo for almost two months, but don't think we were sitting idle. All this time we were preparing to migrate your favorite forwarder bot to the new system, but got buried, since it turned out to be quite tricky. Part of the system (the monitoring in particular) is already migrated, all that's left is to switch everything to the same delivery system as @download_it_bot and get what this was all started for: shared l…

🎉 Good news, everyone! Especially for @download_it_bot users! Hey again. We keep improving, optimizing and fixing bugs. And given the load and the number of requests, there's plenty of them. Anyway, let's get to the list of what's new and not only. Brace yourselves, there's a lot: — We moved the bot to the new system, but not your file history. So we had to run a migration, it took us almost two weeks, and we moved ~2 million files, which is a lot to put it mildly. The point? It all goes into …

💥 Good news, everyone! Especially for @download_it_bot users! Hey, it's us again. The bot might be a bit shaky these past few days since we're very actively working on optimization, improvements and just polishing the little things. Plus the more we work on speed, the more links you throw at it for processing and everything starts lagging again. That's life. Now, what's new and not so new: — Files with non-Latin names now get a proper name. We also slightly raised the filename limit to 65 byte…