This guide explains how to customize Discobot, the built-in assistant bot in Discourse, to better match your community’s persona and needs.
Required user level: Administrator
Discobot is a special user in your Discourse community that helps new members learn about the platform. As an administrator, you can customize various aspects of Discobot to better fit your community’s style and requirements.
Modifying Discobot’s user profile
To customize Discobot’s profile:
Go to Admin > Users and select the Discobot user.
Select “Preferences” or click “Visit this user’s preferences page to edit their profile”:
Is this something that’s going to be possible in the future? The current question/answer format of fortune and quote is sufficient for what I have in mind.
That’s a good point we should make that copyedit, @tshenry can you take it? No need to deal with it retroactively just for new ones. Say “mention me by name” so editing the name doesn’t require editing the “about me”.
@hawk we don’t plan on extending discobot at the moment.
Thanks for answering. Since the last few posts, is it possible to customize the discobot user training and advanced user training or is this still standard? We do get a lot of search traffic with the word “capybara” but would maybe like to try another or term?
Is there any way an admin could toggle a particular part of the tutorial on or off?
For example, the Flag tutorial requires the user to select the “Innapropriate” Flag. This Flag is hidden in our instance because it doesn’t suit our use case. Consequently our users cannot complete the Tutorial. If I could just disable/skip this one section then we could re-enable the tutorial.