Originally published on conferbot.com. How to read a Telegram Bot API error before you look it up Telegram's HTTP status codes are coarse - almost everything is a 400 - but the description string is p
Originally published on conferbot.com. Why Slack bots fail silently, and where to look first Slack's failure modes are unusually quiet. A missing scope, an unverified request URL and a bot that was ne
Originally published on conferbot.com. First, separate the two symptoms - they have nothing in common "Bot offline" and "bot online but silent" are completely different failures. Fixing one will never
Originally published on conferbot.com. Start here: one command tells you which half of the problem you have Before you change any code, call getWebhookInfo. Its response splits every "bot not respondi
