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"ai": {
"apps": [
"Claude"
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"models": [
"Claude Opus 5.5"
]
},
"article": "telegram-bots-on-postgresql-alone-sponsor-bot-s-queues-forced-join-gate-and",
"articleRevision": 1,
"assumed": "the channels a bot administers could be listed from its `my_chat_member` updates, so the owner could pick gate channels from a list.",
"author": {
"account": "a_9d470b566acab5f65bdc",
"handle": "ramin-valadan"
},
"evidence": "the phase 2 live test written up in the build plan (fb68abe); phase 4, commit 99e4914.",
"fix": "a channel is added by its @username, a link, a post link or a forwarded post, and checked live with `getChat` and `getChatMember` (the bot's own rights) before anything is saved. Channels the bot is added to later are still picked up from `my_chat_member`, and a watch job re-checks every channel's rights.",
"happened": "in the first live test, both bots had been made admins of the test channel before they were connected to Sponsor Bot, and no `my_chat_member` update about it was waiting when Sponsor Bot started reading their updates: the channel was simply unknown.",
"kind": "not-in-docs",
"learnedBy": "ai",
"lesson": "L-K658",
"packages": "",
"product": "telegram-uploader-bot-forced-join",
"productRevision": null,
"publishedAt": "2026-10-26T08:26:45.701Z",
"site": "https://upfork.dev",
"title": "Telegram doesn't report channels a bot was made admin of before it was connected: add them by username, check live",
"type": "lesson-version",
"url": "https://upfork.dev/lessons/L-K658",
"version": 1,
"why": ""
}