# Completely Edit Welcome Message
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/completely-edit-welcome-message/56022
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [January 19, 2017, 12:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/completely-edit-welcome-message/56022 "2017-01-19T12:07:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@Blackglade](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Blackglade)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2017, 12:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/completely-edit-welcome-message/56022/1 "2017-01-19T12:07:12Z")
Upon a new member registering for Discourse, they are sent a message by the system (or whatever account you specify) introducing them to the community. Upon some investigation, it seems I can’t edit the entire message, only certain parts!
This part seems to be included by default!
> We believe in civilized community behavior at all times.
> Enjoy your stay!
> (If you need to communicate with staff members as a new user, just reply to this message.)
Any chance this can change? I don’t know about everyone else, but I would like my main site’s welcome message to be fully adaptable to the individual website!
Upon looking at the Main Discourse Repo, the `config /locales/server.en.yml` file seems to be where the default message is being hard coded. Any chance this could change?
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### Author:  [@mikechristopher](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mikechristopher)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2017, 12:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/completely-edit-welcome-message/56022/2 "2017-01-19T12:28:52Z")
You should be able to change this in your admin area.
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### Author:  [@Blackglade](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Blackglade)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2017, 12:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/completely-edit-welcome-message/56022/3 "2017-01-19T12:57:53Z")
That’s soo strange… I do not see that at all!
Oh wait… my link refers to system\_messages. **usage\_tips**.text\_body\_template which is what is included when a user is sent a message upon sign on.
What you’re referring to is system\_messages. **welcome\_user**.text\_body\_template.
Checking the [discourse repo here](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/5dbd6a304bed5400be481d71061d3e3ebb4d6785/app/services/user_activator.rb), it seems the welcome\_user action is defined when a user activates his account (so I’m a little confused since my setup doesn’t have any such variable in `Customize > Text Content Section`
The only editable text content listed for me are the following:
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### Author:  [@outofthebox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/outofthebox)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2020, 1:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/completely-edit-welcome-message/56022/4 "2020-01-27T13:46:43Z")
Hi, it seems there are still some hardcoded parts to the welcome message. I’d also suggest that it be fully editable. As always, I welcome correction if I’m misunderstanding this!
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2020, 2:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/completely-edit-welcome-message/56022/5 "2020-01-27T14:08:31Z")
Can you post an example of the text you are unable to customize? All visible text in Discourse should be localisable - if it’s not then we’ll get it fixed.
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### Author:  [@outofthebox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/outofthebox)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2020, 2:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/completely-edit-welcome-message/56022/6 "2020-01-27T14:23:17Z")
Sure! Here’s the part I can’t customize - it isn’t included in the “system\_messages.usage\_tips.text\_body\_template”
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2020, 2:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/completely-edit-welcome-message/56022/7 "2020-01-27T14:30:17Z")
That’s not the `usage_tips` message
> [@Blackglade](#):
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> What you’re referring to is system\_messages. **welcome\_user**.text\_body\_template.
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### Author:  [@outofthebox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/outofthebox)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2020, 2:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/completely-edit-welcome-message/56022/8 "2020-01-27T14:42:35Z")
So those are merged together into one message?
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/completely-edit-welcome-message/56022/9 "2020-01-27T14:45:35Z")
Ah yes, you’re right - they are combined. The `system_messages.welcome_user.text_body_template` includes the `usage_tips` variable. The `usage_tips` variable is generated from `system_messages.usage_tips.text_body_template`.
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### Author:  [@outofthebox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/outofthebox)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2020, 2:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/completely-edit-welcome-message/56022/10 "2020-01-27T14:46:35Z")
I see. Perhaps bringing these templates together into one message would make it easier to edit? I’ll go edit my welcome\_user templates. 🙂
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2020, 2:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/completely-edit-welcome-message/56022/11 "2020-01-28T02:14:58Z")
That text is used in other areas though, so it would then be hard-coded and duplicated across multiple messages .. there’s a reason it is the way it is.
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### Author:  [@outofthebox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/outofthebox)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2020, 1:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/completely-edit-welcome-message/56022/12 "2020-01-28T13:11:45Z")
Hi, I fully trust that answer. Discourse is brilliant.
The question that remains, then, is for an average admin like me, what is the best way to understand when/where some of these messages are used in a person’s journey through the community?
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2020, 5:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/completely-edit-welcome-message/56022/13 "2020-01-28T17:52:50Z")
> [@outofthebox](#):
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> where some of these messages are used
I find that searching with the admin UI works well, but I guess that depends on a combination of familiarity, luck and search fu.
Maybe you can help with the familiarity aspect by scanning / searching the locale yml files?
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/tree/master/config/locales](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/tree/master/config/locales)
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### Author:  [@outofthebox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/outofthebox)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2020, 8:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/completely-edit-welcome-message/56022/14 "2020-01-28T20:07:10Z")
Hi, thanks for the link. I’ll check those out as I can. If there could be just in time “tips” within the software to help expose where the various messages are used, that would be amazing. That is probably actually a massive amount of time/effort related to the benefit, so I can understand it might not be a priority.
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2020, 6:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/completely-edit-welcome-message/56022/15 "2020-01-29T18:00:06Z")
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