Because of the bots not working properly (again :/), we are going to reboot the server. We don't know the exact cause sadly. As soon as the remaining games on beta bot ended, the server will restart and hopefully the bots will work again.

The reboot didn't bring the success we hoped for. Investigating further at the time being.

In an experiment to find out what causes the issue, we are opening beta bot for all groups temporarily. Feel free to add @werewolfbetabot to your chats and play with it — Beta at least seems to work.
We are shutting the @werewolfbot down temporarily. Sorry for the inconvenience caused.

The bots appear to be back for now!
You can switch back to @werewolfbot, thank you. 🐺 :)

So apparently we are back to daily recurring hiccups for the Werewolf Moderator.

Procedure as follows, until further notice:

- If @werewolfbot works, use it.

- If it doesn't work, use @werewolfbetabot. Once beta leaves your group, try to use @werewolfbot again.

- If it doesn't work and @werewolfbetabot is leaving your group upon starting a game, feel free to shoot us a message in @werewolfsupport, we'll review it.

Sorry for the inconvenient way, we'll look how we can get the bot fixed in the long term.

We are performing a force reboot right now. All current games will probably be killed.
Do NOT spam bot commands, we will let you know when there is further information.

For now, we are back to the previous state. You can all play with beta when the normal bot doesn't work (like currently)

Well. Hey all, it's Para. I would like to reiterate, I don't own / work on Werewolf anymore, but that being said I did step in on this one.

We haven't yet figured out the actual issue, it's a doozy (seriously, I've been at this for years, and I'm scratching my head here). From the server, we are getting response times up to 14 seconds from Telegram. With all of the messages Werewolf gets (seriously, if you don't need it, please remove Werewolf as an admin in your group), what happens is that in those 14 seconds, 1000's more updates come in, but we can only receive 100 at a time. Obviously, this isn't ideal, as the messages in the queue just.. grow exponentially.

We tried doing a ping to Telegram from the server, and we were getting 10ms response times, awesome... so why the slow response to getUpdates? So we tried doing a getUpdates request (to get your startgame calls :P) in Firefox, and that worked fine as well. So is there something wrong with the code? Shouldn't be, there haven't been any changes recently. We have contacted Telegram bot support about the issue, hopefully they can help us out, but in the meantime, I did something I didn't want to do, but... hey, people want to play right?

For the moment, @werewolfbot is now running on my personal machine, at home. Proving it isn't the code, it's running perfectly now, feel free to play. I'll have to set up a script to restart it once in awhile, but you should be able to play while we figure out this issue.

Sorry about the inconveniences, we hope to have this resolved for you soon, in a more permanent manner (if I lose power or internet, you lose werewolf)

Oh... I hope this doesn't happen, but I should mention, my cat has a tendency to step on the reset button of my PC.... if the bot dies in the middle of the night (I'm UTC - 6), I apologize :P

Just a heads up: In an attempt to fix this problem in the long term, we are going to migrate to a new server. It's been ordered and is now up and running. We will migrate the bots in the next few days, and of course let you know about how it goes.

Thanks to Para (and his cat), who enable us to have the bots running now despite the trouble on the old server!

Happy Wuffing everyone! 🐺

Despite the fact that I disabled automatic reboots for Windows updates....

Microsoft did what it wanted. Bots are back online

Update: I disabled it through Group Policy this time, hopefully that works

[Server Upgrade]
Hi all, we are currently working on migrating to our new server! For the moment, both werewolf bots are on maintenance mode. We will begin the work on them once games are finished.

Please note: Due to the way beta bot handles gifs, it may not display any for a short time after the upgrade

Current Status (Check back as we will update this as we work on things)

✅ Server Upgrade
✅ Set up database on new server
✅ Backup Executrix Database
✅ Transfer Executrix Database
✅ Attach Executrix database in new server
✅ Migrate Executrix (it is working already!)
✅ Wait for games on Beta to end
✅ Wait for games on Main to end
✅ Backup Werewolf Database on old server
✅ Transfer Werewolf Database
✅ Attach Werewolf database in new server
✅ Migrate Beta Bot (for testing)
✅ Migrate Werewolf Bot
✅ Migrate Website

Edit: I see a crying emoji. Why cry, this is a good thing :P

So..... Bots are online, and WAY faster than ever before.

Website is still having some issues, most likely because of CloudFlare DNS caching, so we'll just keep an eye on it.

Happy Wuffing to all!

Well then, I just realized I've been posting silently, so probably a lot of people missed the previous announcements, so doing one last post to get people caught up

Hi everyone, all bots are now up and running (never ever faster)! The website is also working and the gifs for beta bot also works now!
Thank you for the patience over the past weeks tolerating the bad bot response time. We have taken immediate actions to migrate everything to a newer and faster server. Hope you all enjoy again and Happy wuffing!

[RevokeLinkBot - It's back!]
Maybe some of you remember @RevokeLinkBot - We created that a couple years ago to give everyone a possibility to get rid of telegram's invite link mess in groups. Well, in case you noticed that it was down - it is back to life now! Enjoy :)

You can find information about what that bot is and what it does in this manual: https://telegra.ph/RevokeLinkBot---Manual-11-17

[Happy Birthday Werewolf! 🐺🎉]
Today is the 6th anniversary of the creation of @werewolfbot - We just quickly want to take this opportunity to say thank you to everyone who supports us and everyone who enjoys our bots.

Have a nice game, don't serial-kill too many wuffs and most importantly: Have fun!
🎂🎂
(2 cakes for a total of 6 candles 😁)

[Telegram Issues]
The bots are unstable right now because of Telegram-Side issues. Please be patient, we'll enable them later when telegram is more stable.
Time to grab some air I guess :)

The bots seem to be working again, enjoy!
Happy Wuffing! 🐺