# How to engage New users?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-engage-new-users/265549
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [May 19, 2023, 11:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-engage-new-users/265549 "2023-05-19T11:17:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Khush\_booz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Khush_booz)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2023, 11:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-engage-new-users/265549/1 "2023-05-19T11:17:55Z")
Hello, I want to engage new users coming on to my platform. Are there any known strategies or plugins that I can use to engage them on 1-1 level. The only data point that I have is their email ids.
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### Author:  [@Ed\_S](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ed_S)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2023, 2:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-engage-new-users/265549/2 "2023-05-19T14:18:07Z")
You might consider starting a Welcome thread, or an Introduce Yourself thread.
Or one or two other threads which invite personal contributions, such Your Collection or Your (Funny) Stories or whatever fits the nature of the forum.
And you might consider keeping a State Of The Forum thread where you post now and again to comment on how many people have joined, which threads you’ve most enjoyed, and so on.
(Or State Of The Community, or whichever term works for your case.)
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2023, 2:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-engage-new-users/265549/3 "2023-05-19T14:58:22Z")
Discobot does this for you already if you have it enabled lol 😅
you could also setup a new user topic (or category) like @Ed_S recommends. then also go to ` Admin-cutomize-text` and edit the new user message template in `system_messages.usage_tips.text_body_template` to your needs with a link to a new user topic or category.
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### Author:  [@twofoursixeight](https://meta.discourse.org/u/twofoursixeight)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2023, 4:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-engage-new-users/265549/4 "2023-05-19T16:55:51Z")
Here are some examples:
- introduction threads to welcome new users
(stolen)
> [@Ed\_S](#):
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> You might consider starting a Welcome thread, or an Introduce Yourself thread.
- appealing designs so that the forum looks cool to new users
- make sure to keep the community going
By the way: here is a related thread to help you:
> [@Encouraging User Participation - Some Ideas, More welcome](https://meta.discourse.org/t/encouraging-user-participation-some-ideas-more-welcome/42511):
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> Folks, During the past year my user base on my forum has gone from 1,000 to about 4,000 total users. During that same time the average number of messages per day has gone from about 250 to 600 messages per day. What has been strange and disappointing is that the number of user logins per day has remained basically flat at about 200 people per day. This actually concerns me a lot I’ve heard that the average facebook user returns 1 time a day to the site - so our participation rate is really …
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2023, 2:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-engage-new-users/265549/5 "2023-05-22T02:01:53Z")
> [@Khush\_booz](#):
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> Hello, I want to engage new users coming on to my platform. Are there any known strategies
Engage them in what way? Why are they coming to the community and what do you want them to do?
I’d recommend doing some reading over at [https://www.feverbee.com/](https://www.feverbee.com/)
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2023, 6:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-engage-new-users/265549/6 "2023-05-22T06:41:38Z")
> [@Khush\_booz](#):
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> The only data point that I have is their email ids
What ever you will do, don’t take that route.
For me isn’t totally clear now do you want
- get new users
- engage users you already have