# Customizing Discobot for your site
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-discobot-for-your-site/103633
**Category:** Site Management
**Tags:** discobot, how-to, customization
**Created:** [December 6, 2018, 4:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-discobot-for-your-site/103633 "2018-12-06T16:09:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@wendellverli](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wendellverli)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2024, 2:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-discobot-for-your-site/103633/35 "2024-10-01T14:49:56Z")
Thanks, I figure would be best to have a model trained to act in character according to your forum, just would not even know where to begin to do that š
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### Author:  [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2024, 3:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-discobot-for-your-site/103633/36 "2024-10-01T15:04:13Z")
This might be if interest
> [@Discourse Chatbot robot](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chatbot/256652/960):
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> I just tested Chatbot with the default brand new 3B [llama3.2](https://www.llama.com/docs/overview) locally and I must say itās INCREDIBLE. Tools appear to work and itās very fast. Great work Meta! This is a fantastic option for development or experimentation at low cost or where you have limited internet. Settings:
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### Author:  [@TempAccount](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TempAccount)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-discobot-for-your-site/103633/37 "2025-09-06T17:08:25Z")
Is it at all possible to add or extend existing prompts to discobot?
> [@Who is Discobot?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/who-is-discobot/69003/1):
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> Although you canāt (yet) build your own interactive narratives, every single bit of text in the narrative can also be customized from Admin, Customize, Text:
This was in 2017. It has been 8 years, any support (be official or custom)?
If thereās no support, has anyone shared workarounds that may be helpful?
Edit: by prompts i mean āI currently know how to do the following thingsā
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### Author:  [@Isla](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Isla)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2025, 11:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-discobot-for-your-site/103633/39 "2025-09-07T23:56:02Z")
Following along re this
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### Author:  [@TempAccount](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TempAccount)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-discobot-for-your-site/103633/40 "2025-09-08T18:41:49Z")
Honestly, itās not so much that I/we _need_ to use Discobot. Itās just āeasierā because it is an existing bot on the forum.
But Iāll create a designated new user to be a bot for all i careā¦
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2025, 3:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-discobot-for-your-site/103633/41 "2025-09-15T03:25:46Z")
Itās still not possible, Iām afraid. We are not actively developing Discobot.
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### Author:  [@stephtara](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stephtara)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2026, 11:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-discobot-for-your-site/103633/42 "2026-03-07T11:16:14Z")
> [@Discourse](#):
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> You can reuse existing variables in messages (like `%{title}`), but you cannot add new ones.
So does this mean we can only use %{title} and %{base\_url} and thatās it when customising a message? Iām working on personalising my messages and Iād like to be able to address the person by name for example, or display the contents of one of the custom user fields they filled in on sign-up.
Is there a way to do this? Or am I trying to twist Discobot into something itās not and there is a way to automate a more personalised welcome message to new users where I can display that information?
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