# Allow skipping beginner tips when discobot disabled

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-skipping-beginner-tips-when-discobot-disabled/222303
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [April 29, 2021, 1:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-skipping-beginner-tips-when-discobot-disabled/222303 "2021-04-29T13:27:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![andrei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/andrei/32/205142_2.png) [@andrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/andrei)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2021, 1:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-skipping-beginner-tips-when-discobot-disabled/222303/1 "2021-04-29T13:27:21Z")

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> [@Badges and general chattiness of Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-and-general-chattiness-of-discourse/187971/20):
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> What happens on sites with discobot disabled? Is there no way for users to opt out except by going to their user prefs?

Yes, on such sites users don’t see this message:

 ![Screenshot 2021-04-29 at 17.25.53](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/b/4ba4e203d2ec1945fce9a73146fa8ac38153add9.png)

So they should go to prefs to disable beginners tips.

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### Author: ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2021, 2:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-skipping-beginner-tips-when-discobot-disabled/222303/2 "2021-04-29T14:16:34Z")

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Hmm.. is this a gap in functionality? I don’t know how many sites have discobot disabled but if they do then new users should still be able to easily skip the beginner tips.

We’re going to want to spend some time on new user experience soon anyway, but maybe an easy interim fix here would be to tweak this copy so it makes sense even if there are no notifications yet, and then always show it to new users.

> Your notifications are here. Select it to begin.
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> Not your first time? Skip these tips

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2022, 8:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-skipping-beginner-tips-when-discobot-disabled/222303/4 "2022-01-17T20:01:36Z")

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We should go back and fix this for the next release. Can you make sure we do Tobias?