Auto-publishing to my Telegram channel
I set up automatic publishing of my posts to a Telegram channel.
I decided to post them there raw, with no AI reworking. I called it brain dump. Same as on the site, I'll put down whatever's left in my head once everything else is automated. And something always is. You can't just think about nothing.
Now I write any post in discobrain, and it goes out to the site and to Telegram automatically.
These days every post publishes in Reach Post mode (Telegram added that mode not long ago).
I ran into a couple of problems:
- Paragraphs don't get any spacing between them, so I had to add an empty paragraph in between. If Telegram changes the layout later, it'll all break and shift.
- The title on these posts is really faint and gets lost, so I used bold text instead. I might switch it to a heading later, but for now bold fits better.
But the mode has some real upsides too:
- No trouble posting with images, you can embed them nicely inside the post.
- The post length isn't capped at 4000 characters anymore, you can go up to 32000.
At first I only wanted to publish the posts with images the new way, but then I changed my mind and made them all the same.