# Onboarding: Discobot, automated messages, other options?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/onboarding-discobot-automated-messages-other-options/394898
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** discobot
**Created:** [1 בפברואר,‏ 2026,‏ 8:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onboarding-discobot-automated-messages-other-options/394898 "2026-02-01T20:56:56Z")
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### Author: ![stephtara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephtara/32/517827_2.png) [@stephtara](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stephtara)
#### Post date: [1 בפברואר,‏ 2026,‏ 8:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onboarding-discobot-automated-messages-other-options/394898/1 "2026-02-01T20:56:56Z")

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I’m not sure how best to go about onboarding my members. Discobot seems like a good start but I’d like to also include “community specific” things in the tutorials (related to the subject of our community), is that possible?

Otherwise, I’d looked into using an automation plugin to send a private message to users when they join, and another a couple of days later, etc. But it’s not very interactive.

Here’s how I’d like things to work – is this doable, and what would the most straightforward way to do this with Discourse?

- new user receives a custom “welcome message” with some pointers on how to get started in the community (support group for diabetic cat owners, so the message would be some reassurance, a few key points to pay attention to so we can catch critical emergencies, an invitation to post in the welcome zone and some pointers to useful documents for beginners)
- depending on the option a new user selected when signing up, welcome message could be different
- after N days, another message (and so on, at certain set intervals of time after the user joined)
- it would be great to have some kind of interactive tutorial, like discobot does for learning to use discourse, but for our topic: e.g. mission #1 is create a special topic in a given category for your cat; mission #2 is fill in your profile with a bunch of info we need; mission #3 is start filling in the checklist for the emergency kit we recommend, etc.

Thanks!

Oh, and regarding Discobot: is there a place were we can simply see all the texts/messages to go through them and revise/edit them? It’s super cumbersome in the admin interface, particularly if you don’t know what to look for because you don’t know what exists!

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