Vestnik: Your Group Chat Chronicler

You step out for lunch and come back to three hundred messages. Reading them all is tedious, but skipping might mean missing something important. Vestnik solves that: once a day it produces a digest of what happened in the chat. 📰

The tone is what makes it stand out. Digests come with humour and a touch of sarcasm, as if your group had a court chronicler.

What the bot does

You add Vestnik to a group chat and it starts following what goes on. A day later, the chat gets a story about the events of the previous 24 hours.

It is not a dry list. The digest retells discussions, jokes and arguments in lively language, so even people who spent all day in the chat enjoy reading it. 😄

Setting it up in a minute

1. Open your group chat and add the bot.
2. Give it permission to read group messages.
3. Send /start in the group so the bot begins working.
4. Wait for the first digest and see how it turns out.

The bot is built for group chats. It does not support topics (threads) yet, so keep that in mind if your group is organised by topic.

Commands for fine-tuning

The command listed in the bot profile is /help, which shows what is available. The service description mentions other settings that make digests sharper.

• /overview gives a deeper look at chat dynamics or one member's messages.
• /overviewtime sets a convenient time for the daily digest.
• /describe describes images and photos.
• /chatdescription sets a group description so the bot understands the context.
• /nickname, /description and /gender let you give members a nickname, a description and a gender.
• /prompt shapes the bot's editorial analysis.

Who benefits

Vestnik works best where there is lots of talk and little time: large friend chats, student groups and hobby communities. It reminds you what happened and sometimes makes you laugh more than the chat itself.

In work chats it is a gentle way to recall what was agreed, though it does not replace meeting notes. ✍️

Think before adding it

To write a digest, the bot has to read the group's messages. For private conversations, that matters.

• Ask the members. Tell people a bot that processes the conversation is present.
• Skip sensitive chats. Where people share passwords, documents or personal matters, leave it out.
• Mind the humour. Sarcasm can sting, so tune the tone with /prompt.
• Check authenticity. Add only the bot with the right name, because fakes exist.

The short version

Vestnik is a quick way to stay in the loop without scrolling through thousands of messages. It is especially fun among friends, where digests turn into local memes. 🎩