The bot learned one more thing: ask it for the official links and it posts them.

Type /linklist in the group, in a topic, or in a private chat with @AntiQua_Blockchain_Bot. Back come the five addresses that are actually ours:

AntiQua — official links
• Forum · Website · Git · BugHive · Discord
If a link is not on this list, it is not ours.

That last line is the whole point. Communities like ours don't usually lose money to clever exploits — they lose it to a lookalike domain posted by a friendly stranger. Having one list that anyone can summon in two seconds makes it cheap to check and awkward to fake.

Anyone can ask. It isn't an admin command. Someone new turns up, wonders where the repository is, types six characters, done.

It won't spam you. The list stays quiet until 50 messages have passed since the last time it appeared — counted per topic, so a question in one channel doesn't silence another. Ask too early and your message just gets a instead of a repeat.

Delete it and you can ask again. If someone clears the list out of the chat, the counter resets and the next request brings it straight back. Telegram doesn't tell bots when a message is deleted, so ours checks for itself — but only when it's about to say no, so it costs nothing the rest of the time.

Small feature. It exists because the alternative is someone pasting a fake forum link at 2 a.m. and nobody having a quick way to prove it's fake.

September 2026 · a new plugin joins the list above

You can now get your forum notifications on Telegram — if you want to. Nothing changes for anyone who doesn't: email and the bell keep working exactly as before, and this is off until you switch it on yourself.

Our bot is @AntiQua_Blockchain_Bot.

Connecting takes about ten seconds

1. Go to Settings in your profile and find the Telegram section.
2. Press Connect Telegram. A link appears — open it.
3. Press Start in Telegram. Come back; the page has already updated itself.

That's it. And notice what you didn't do: you never looked up a chat ID and never typed one anywhere.

That's deliberate, and it's the most important design decision in this plugin. If there were a field for your Telegram ID, someone could type in yours. Their forum notifications would then land on your phone — and since notification texts contain post content, whoever did it could choose the text. The forum would become a delivery channel for messages from a bot you trust. That is exactly how a good phishing message gets made.

So instead: you get a one-time link, you press Start, and Telegram itself tells the bot who you are. Entering someone else's ID isn't hard in this design — it's impossible, because the ID never passes through anyone's hands. The link works once, expires after ten minutes, and only its hash is stored in our database, never the link itself.

What will never arrive on Telegram

Password resets. Email confirmations. Two-factor codes. Those stay on email, permanently, with no setting to change it.

The reason is simple: if a password reset could be delivered to a messenger, then whoever controls your Telegram controls your forum account — and the email confirmation that your account is built on would be bypassed entirely. Convenience isn't worth that trade, so we didn't build the switch.

You choose what arrives

Each kind of notification has its own toggle:

• when someone mentions you
• replies in topics you follow
• new topics in categories you watch
• private messages
• new followers, votes on your posts, group invitations
• everything else

On top of that there's one master switch for Telegram delivery, and Disconnect removes everything. You can also send /stop to the bot — same effect, from wherever you happen to be.

It speaks your language

The bot picks your language in this order: whatever you select in the Telegram section, otherwise your forum language, otherwise the language your browser asked for when you connected, otherwise the forum default. All 14 forum languages are supported.

That third step matters for people who never set a language in the forum — the browser already knows, so the bot simply uses it instead of defaulting to English.

Small things that keep it pleasant

• A cap per hour, so a heated thread doesn't turn into a ringtone marathon.
• Quiet hours can be configured forum-wide.
• Plain text only — no Markdown, no HTML. A topic title can't smuggle in bold "official" warnings or a fake link, because formatting simply isn't interpreted.
• Buttons only point back here. A link that isn't on this forum's own address doesn't get a button at all.
• Block the bot and delivery switches itself off instead of hammering away at a closed door.

What we store, and what we don't

Your chat ID, your display name, when you connected and which kinds you chose. That's all.

It disappears when you disconnect, when you send /stop, and when you delete your account. In server logs and in the admin overview the chat ID only ever appears shortened (****1570) — it's personal data, and it gets treated that way.

Tested the way we'd want it tested

Like the plugins above, this one ships with its own test suite — 59 tests, including the attacks we'd expect someone to try:

• hijacking a chat that already belongs to another account
• redeeming the same one-time link twice
• using an expired or invented link
• smuggling formatting or foreign links into a message
• forcing delivery to someone who never connected
• slipping past the hourly cap
• getting the bot key to appear in an error message

All of them fail, which is the point.

Questions, or something behaving oddly? Reply here. If you'd rather not use Telegram at all, you genuinely don't have to — nothing about the forum requires it.