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News messages
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News messages are an optional feature, disabled by default, that records
messages sent to one or more Telegram channels and republishes them on the
website.

News messages are not enabled on https://sewifurs.org/, but if you wish to
enable them on your own instance, set `SHOW_NEWS` to `True`, then set
`ALLOWED_CHANNELS` to a `list[int]` where each element is an ID of a Telegram
channel whose messages you want to be tracked.

The three latest messages across all allowed channels will be displayed on the
homepage, above the chat directory. If these messages are edited, the new text
will be seen on the website too. Due to Telegram Bot API limitations, channel
message deletions aren't tracked. Photos aren't reposted to the website, but
their captions still will be.

.. note::

    Although this feature isn't currently used in production, an automated test
    suite verifies that it still works.