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there must be users here who have missed a raffle or an auction of a certain collectible (e.g. Kialara, BTCC or Casascius) or whose favorite spot in a free raffle has already been taken by another user
to remedy all this, the notification bot for telegram, developed by TryNinja (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=557798), has been available here on the forum for almost 3 years. some of you will already know and use this bot, but some of you might not have noticed it yet (like our krogoth last time (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5248878.msg61741285#msg61741285) ;)) and this thread is meant to address those users

i personally use it since the first version and i am very satisfied with it. there is the possibility that this bot reports every time your username is mentioned in any thread, another possibility is that the bot starts immediately with the words 'free raffle', which appear a few seconds ago in a just created thread/post - you can also set several words (auction, Kialara, ...) in the bot settings
the bot also always reports when merits have been distributed to that user and immediately tells you the total number of merits then

more information/discussions about the telegram bot, you can find in the official thread abou it: [TELEGRAM] Yet Another BitcoinTalk Notification BOT (merits, mentions, topics,+) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5248878.0)

Click your username. If you entered your password on a third party site (face palm!), you should change it now.

First asking for my username = np
What is my uid? When using my user name again its says "thats doesnt seems right"
Help please  ???

https://i.ibb.co/LCrkT7W/Screenshot-20230211-053526-Telegram-2.png (https://ibb.co/YtXR5sM)

Hope this will help a few people who are having issues with finding the uid.

Thanks a lot bro! Much appreciate it !

just simply move the mouse pointer over your username, which is located above your avatar, and you will see your user-id at the bottom left (in the browser) at the end of the url (;u=...)
another option is also the bpip website:
https://bpip.org/Profile?p=haloxon (https://bpip.org/Profile?p=haloxon)
https://bpip.org/Profile?p=QuakerBull (https://bpip.org/Profile?p=QuakerBull)

Thanks cygan!
Its working.

 Thanks for this info...I really had no idea about this or others and always relied on the forum email to notify of any new posts or topics.

  I installed the Telegram bot and its amazing as I receive not only my username mentions but also any Merits posted!

  Thanks for sharing with the rest of the community!

Screw that - too lazy to look and find - should not even bother imo

???
i hope you have now looked at the bot and seen the benefits of starting it up ;D

Cool bot.  I didn't know of it's existence before now either.  Kudos.  Great that development on it seems to be active as well.



Did try entering your Bitcoin private key?  Just jokes...  Don't do that.  As others have stated, don't ever enter your passwords into any 3rd party site ever.  You should use unique passwords for every site you visit and if compromised like you did with your password here, you should immediately change it.  There are sharks everywhere in crypto and the fact you mentioned you did this probably already has some of them plotting on how to get you to give up your password.  Stay safe.  Good luck!

Nope :) if I dont see it on my own then so be it. The only benefit is laziness and I am trying to avoid that

Pretty sick tool. Probably been living too long without it already.
Time to try it, just hope it doesn't get too distracting, though.

Anyway, kudos to the dev TryNinja and anyone promoting that thing.

  Indeed it is...It keeps me up to date with any mentions and also anytime I get Merits!

  Always surprising me in a good way!

BTCump
for the users who have overlooked or missed this thread ;)

Wow, this is awesome I had no idea that such a tool existed. I am definitely going to be downloading this bot!

i am very happy that i could reach you with this thread. because you can see from your example that there are still users who do not move in all sections of the forum (in this case the meta section (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=24.0)) and therefore miss some interesting things/threads and do not have them on their radar at all

Personally if I could omit people who use bots from my raffles I would. If they cannot find it on their own they shouldnt be joining raffles.

It would only work if you mentioned them when you made the post.

unless I misread the OP it said something about programming the bot to pick up on key words like "free raffle"

if its tags - that doesnt bother me but when people start using bots just to catch raffles instead of actually being active on the forums and engaging the forums - meh.

No I believe you are correct, you can be alerted for stuff with a string in it, but I don't bother since I don't care that much about free raffles, I'll see them when I log in ofc...

From the bot's menu options:  (Note, I have not tried a "Phrase", just keywords like Lealana and Casascius for example. Or AUCTION etc ... But even no on that one for me, I don't need a phone buzz for that either... For me it's best for manually adding/removing any auctions I'm following so I can see bids when i'm afk etc ...  Adding threads to follow can be handy ... :P

From bot menu:

you can configure this bot according to your personal needs.
i am only notified by the bot on my mobile phone when i mention the words 'Icarus' and/or 'cygan' ;)

small friendly BTCump :)

since there will be more UniJoin and [banned mixer] free raffles soon, i wanted to bump this very helpful thread again 8)
there are now new users in our great collectibles section who have also acquired a taste for crypto collecting and to make sure that these users and old hands don't miss anything, they should take a look at this thread and this script/bot ;)

a little friendly reminder to the new collectors in our already large and steadily growing collectors' section :)