Do flows stop working if you don’t click deploy on other flows you edited?

I use a change node immediately before sending to the bot. It uses the following JSONata to change the payload:

{ 
    "chatId": chatId,
    "content": "*" & $replace(topic, "_", " ") & "*\n" & $join($split(payload, "<br>"), "\n"),
    "type": contentType,
    "options": { 
        "parse_mode": "Markdown"
    }
}

MQTT messages destined for output to Telegram have another change node that sets the correct chatId and:

As you can see, MQTT Telegram messages all start with the topic TELEGRAM/