A clean, calm chat starts wit two things: keeping bots out ɛn letting di community rest. In dis update wi added both.
Entry verification
Most spam comes from bots dat join automatically ɛn immediately start blasting. Now there's a CAPTCHA at di entrance — a simple check for a human ɛn an insurmountable one for a bot: solve a sum, press di right button or pick an emoji.
For a real member it's a couple of seconds, but spam bots are cut off before they manage to write a single word. Yu get a clean chat without manual cleanup.
Night mode
Sometimes di best moderation is a pause. Night mode automatically closes di chat on a schedule ɛn by weekday: for di night, say, or for weekends. Messages don't pile up while yu're away, ɛn in di morning yu open di chat to a calm discussion rather than a littered one.
Dis takes di load off admins ɛn spares members' nerves — no one wakes up to a hundred nighttime notifications.
Takeaway
Verification protects di entrance, night mode sets di rhythm — together they make di chat predictable ɛn pleasant. Less spam, less burnout, more order. Details are in di changelog.