BORG

Better Overwatch Robot for Groupme, a drop-in FLOSS alternative to GORT, which overcomes its limited featureset and closed-source freemium model

GORT Features Reimplemented

• User permissions/roles (#2 #18)
  • Allows users to have different permission levels.
  • GORT only has regular user, trusted user, admin, and co-owner with preset permissions
  • BORG allows for a fully modular permission system and custom roles
• Remote console (#2 #16)
  • Allows management without flooding the chatroom with commands
• Security levels (#2)
  • 0: sleeping, doesn't respond to any restricted actions
  • 1: undo unauthorized changes
  • 2: same as 1 AND warn offender
  • 3: same as 1 AND kick offender without warning
  • BORG allows these to be assigned per-offense and per-role, and to set a default
• Group settings management (#2 #16)
  • Manages these settings (in addition to the ones listed under restricted actions):
    • toggle share link
    • toggle closed status
• Group settings protection (#20)
  • Prevents users from editing things like name, topic, and avatar by automatically reverting any changes
  • Optionally may issue warnings or kick offenders
• Restrict user actions (#2 #20)
  • The following actions are able to be restricted/allowed:
    • change group name
    • change group topic
    • change group avatar
    • toggle office mode
    • add users
    • add multiple users at once
    • remove users
    • join group through share link
    • rejoin through built-in GroupMe feature
    • chat
• Auto-kick (#21)
  • Users who repeatedly break rules will be kicked
• Mass kick/re-add (#3)
  • Allows kicking and re-adding in batches based on
    • is kicked by user (re-add)
    • is a regular user (kick)
    • is added by user (kick)
    • is inactive (kick)
    • is new (kick)
• Reputation (#7 #21)
  • Keeps track of a user's reputation to help tag spammers
  • Allows for setting a minimum reputation limit to join
• Ban users (#4)
  • Prevents a user from being added, joining with share link, and joining with the built-in rejoin feature
  • Lifting a band lifts the above restrictions
  • Banning a user in one chatroom bans them from all that are under the same ownership (optional)
• Anti-bot (#6)
  • Kick and ban user who attempted to install a bot
    • GroupMe automatically disables bots whose owner is kicked
• Room migration (#22)
  • Attempt to add all users from one chatroom into another
• Migration protection (#22)
  • Prevents the users from a chatroom from being migrated

• Room full alert (#9)
  • Notifies admins when the chatroom is at max capacity
• Mass alert (#9 #10)
  • Alert everyone using a single message
  • Alert everyone in a specific role using a single message
  • Alert for calendar events
• Profanity filter (#11)
  • Warn users for detected swears (in English)
• Content filter (#12)
  • Restricts posting:
    • images
    • videos
    • links
    • events
    • polls
    • uploaded files
    • emojis
• Greeting (#5)
  • Greets incoming users with a custom message
  • Variables:
    • $U - replaced with username
    • $G - replaced with group name
• Activity tracking (#23)
  • Keeps track of things such as when user first joined, when user last joined, and when user was last seen
• User queries (#8)
  • List users who fall under a specific role
  • List list departed, kicked, banned, and inactive users
  • List users added by a specific user
  • Whois
• Custom commands (#14 #15)
  • Custom replies for a certain trigger
• Task scheduler (#13 #14)
  • Sends messages and alerts triggered by a time event (timer or date)
• Messaging Level settings (#17)
  • Controls "chattiness" in response to certain events
    • high: all responses are enabled
    • med: all messages except join events are enabled
    • low: warnings for restricted actions/bot actions such as kick are disabled
    • none: no messages will be sent
  • BORG will allow all messages to be individually enabled/disabled, as well as presets which mass-set message levels