As Nate said, you can enable Discobot’s welcome message and add the information into that.
The setting to enable the welcome message is Disable Discourse Narrative Bot welcome post
. You can customize the message like any text Customize text in Discourse. The relevant keys are discourse_narrative_bot.new_user_narrative.hello.title
for the title of the message and discourse_narrative_bot.new_user_narrative.hello.message
and discourse_narrative_bot.new_user_narrative.bookmark.instructions
for the body. By default Discobot also offers a tutorial in that message where you can learn about Discourse features like oneboxes, bookmarks, and flags.
With the Discourse Narrative Bot welcome post type
setting, you can change it to a different welcome message that doesn’t offer a tutorial. Then the site texts you might want to customize are system_messages.welcome_user.subject_template
for the title and system_messages.welcome_user.text_body_template
for the body. The %{new_user_tips}
placeholder is replaced by system_messages.usage_tips.text_body_template
, so you can customize that too.
There is also an automated message when the user reaches trust level 1 (Customizing trust level promotion messages for new users). But I think that’s too late for your use case.
For a more personal approach, you can use the automation plugin to trigger a personal message when a user is added to the trust level 0 group.