No notification style messaging about django-tgbot_demo

[Ali-Toosi]

Would absolutely appreciate any contributions. If you have got ideas for implementing this (or possibly any other features) go for it!
As a matter of fact, an hour ago right after this discussion, I thought it's probably about time we added a contribution guide to the repo and added this to the list: https://github.com/Ali-Toosi/django-tgbot/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md

[Ali-Toosi]

Hi,
This is a limitation of the Bot API and Telegram does not allow this. I assume that is because otherwise bots could go around and spam users with unwanted messages. But anyway this is not something you could change from the code as it's something Telegram API is enforcing.

[Schroedingberg]

But shouldn't it work once I subscribed to the bot? There are plenty of telegram bots that e.g. send daily news updates and these are certainly sent without me sending a message every day.

[Ali-Toosi]

Oh I see your point now. Yes, this is technically possible but you'd need to do some work for it. Meaning that there are no defined mechanisms right now that allow you to quickly send a message to everyone, you have to do it yourself. This is how I'd suggest you do it:
Create a processor that receives messages only from the admins (you can define who admins are). So whenever an admin sends a message that starts with !notify! the bot will send the rest of their message as a notification to everyone. This way, you are sending notifications with the same style of processing updates.
All of that said, this is probably a common use case and I'll probably add it as a feature to the package sometime in future.

[Schroedingberg]

Sounds great! If you need any help with that let me know, I will try my best :-)