# Help Guidance for New Users
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-guidance-for-new-users/34403
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 12, 2015, 3:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-guidance-for-new-users/34403 "2015-10-12T15:14:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@JeffreyKeefer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JeffreyKeefer)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2015, 3:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-guidance-for-new-users/34403/1 "2015-10-12T15:14:55Z")
Has anybody found new participants get overwhelmed when they use Discourse for the first couple times? I know there is a welcome email they get, though wonder if anybody has found a need to simplify them or otherwise post instructions or a basic one-pager to help new discussion participants who may get overwhelmed how the system works?
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2015, 3:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-guidance-for-new-users/34403/2 "2015-10-12T15:35:41Z")
What kind of feedback do you get from these new participants? What is it they don’t understand?
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### Author:  [@JeffreyKeefer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JeffreyKeefer)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 2:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-guidance-for-new-users/34403/3 "2015-10-21T14:52:28Z")
I think the issue is that our users sometimes misplace the notification they receive when they first join, and I would like to be able to have a link someplace so they can get back to it or otherwise locate it as needed.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 9:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-guidance-for-new-users/34403/4 "2015-10-21T21:45:15Z")
Sure, that link is Profile, Messages. You could put it in a banner topic like so:
> Forgotten how to use the site? Refer to your getting started message! [http://discourse.example.com/my/messages](http://discourse.example.com/my/messages)
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### Author:  [@JeffreyKeefer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JeffreyKeefer)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2015, 12:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-guidance-for-new-users/34403/5 "2015-10-22T12:21:47Z")
This is helpful, @codinghorror. I had no idea (as a somewhat new admin) that everybody got their own messages OR that each one has its own url.
Helpful . . .
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### Author:  [@JeffreyKeefer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JeffreyKeefer)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2015, 12:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-guidance-for-new-users/34403/6 "2015-10-22T12:34:43Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> [http://discourse.example.com/my/messages](http://discourse.example.com/my/messages)
. . . and here is my result, though I posted this as a topic in case anybody needs more follow-up [http://forum.networkedlearning.net/t/how-do-i-use-this-site-anyway/209/1](http://forum.networkedlearning.net/t/how-do-i-use-this-site-anyway/209/1)
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2015, 2:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-guidance-for-new-users/34403/7 "2015-10-22T14:43:33Z")
Maybe not so much of a potential problem for New members that presumably have only a few messages.
But, for example, I have over 60 and my initial “welcome” is at the bottom.
Will they know to look there?
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### Author:  [@jidetheblogger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jidetheblogger)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2017, 9:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-guidance-for-new-users/34403/8 "2017-06-10T09:12:55Z")
Seems this no longer works…
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Forgotten how to use the site? Refer to your getting started message! [http://discourse.example.com/my/messages](http://discourse.example.com/my/messages)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2017, 4:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-guidance-for-new-users/34403/9 "2017-06-10T16:51:01Z")
This still works just fine.
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### Author:  [@jidetheblogger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jidetheblogger)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2017, 7:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-guidance-for-new-users/34403/10 "2017-06-10T19:42:25Z")
It has been replaced by discobot greetings
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> This still works just fine.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2024, 12:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-guidance-for-new-users/34403/11 "2024-06-08T12:44:38Z")
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