# Should welcome message for invited users come from the inviter?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-welcome-message-for-invited-users-come-from-the-inviter/14466
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [4 Aprile 2014, 4:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-welcome-message-for-invited-users-come-from-the-inviter/14466 "2014-04-04T16:26:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@angelim](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angelim)
#### Post date: [4 Aprile 2014, 4:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-welcome-message-for-invited-users-come-from-the-inviter/14466/1 "2014-04-04T16:26:13Z")
When someone accepts an invitation, he receives a welcome notification. The text of that message is being addressed to the inviter, instead of the invited: `{inviter.username} Welcome to...`
I’m trying to debug it but I really can’t pinpoint where the problem is. Everything looks ok in `InvitesController`.
I can’t test it on **meta** or **try** because I don’t yet have enough trust level.
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### Author:  [@angelim](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angelim)
#### Post date: [5 Aprile 2014, 4:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-welcome-message-for-invited-users-come-from-the-inviter/14466/3 "2014-04-05T04:36:27Z")
Sorry about this, guys. It’s not broken.
The Welcome message notification comes from the site\_contact\_username. I was using that same account to send invitations and I got confused.
Only now I realized the display\_name in notifications never is the current user, but the one sending the message or performing the action, which makes total sense. I was mistakenly expecting to see the current user name in the welcome message notification.
Given this perspective, I kinda think it would be nice for that private message(welcome message) to be sent from the inviter. Aside from being more personal, it would be a great opportunity for them to establish their first contact within the forum.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [5 Aprile 2014, 6:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-welcome-message-for-invited-users-come-from-the-inviter/14466/4 "2014-04-05T06:44:46Z")
Generally you expect that you are inviting people to a topic, where you can welcome them after they arrive, or they can post a hello message in that topics.
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### Author:  [@angelim](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angelim)
#### Post date: [5 Aprile 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-welcome-message-for-invited-users-come-from-the-inviter/14466/5 "2014-04-05T16:44:39Z")
You really do make a good point. There are other facets to what I was proposing. I was considering the emotional impact of having a friend walking with you through the next steps.
If I invite someone to a park, I’d like to show them around. Tell them how they should carry themselves, what is acceptable by the ones I already fraternize with and so on. I wouldn’t prefer to have the “security guard” go through all that with me. That would also apply for general invitations: the ones without a topic attached to them.
I’ve started a topic about some ideas to improve the invitation workflow experience here:
> [@Invite workflow](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-workflow/14460):
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> I’ve been thinking about the invite workflow and I have the following suggestions. Let me know what you think. Invitees shouldn’t have to confirm email address. The only way they got to the forum was reading an undisclosed token in their email. email\_domains\_blacklist should be used to validate invite emails. The inviter should know that email cannot be used. We could create a notification when creating invitee accounts to instruct them to define username and password before leaving. That coul…
Maybe we could close this one and continue there?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [16 Ottobre 2014, 2:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-welcome-message-for-invited-users-come-from-the-inviter/14466/6 "2014-10-16T02:37:53Z")
I like this request and your example of a friend inviting you and walking you through the experience is sensible. @techapj can you add this to your list?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [13 Ottobre 2017, 4:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-welcome-message-for-invited-users-come-from-the-inviter/14466/7 "2017-10-13T04:27:48Z")
No longer applicable given we use discobot for this.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [13 Ottobre 2017, 4:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-welcome-message-for-invited-users-come-from-the-inviter/14466/8 "2017-10-13T04:27:51Z")