# Show indicator when a default text content element has been updated?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-indicator-when-a-default-text-content-element-has-been-updated/63821>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [Junho 2, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-indicator-when-a-default-text-content-element-has-been-updated/63821 "2017-06-02T15:39:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![tophee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tophee/32/73406_2.png) [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)\
**Post date:** [Junho 2, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-indicator-when-a-default-text-content-element-has-been-updated/63821/1 "2017-06-02T15:39:49Z")

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> [@Allow welcome email in addition to the bot welcome message](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-welcome-email-in-addition-to-the-bot-welcome-message/63603/13):
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> I think the copy was a customised hangover from friendlier times… I have since removed the instruction to reply to the PM.
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> I think the default copy has been updated in stock Discourse.

This reminds me of a suggestion I’ve had on my mibd for a while: if you customize a copy under Admin - \> Customize - \> Text Content and then the default copy gets changed via a discourse upgrade, you will never know about this. In some cases this doesn’t matter but in others it does, as in the example above. In some cases, such an upgrade might even [break the rendering of the copy](https://meta.discourse.org/t/translation-missing-error-after-changing-text-content/58254) entirely because a [variable has been added or taken away](https://meta.discourse.org/t/translation-missing-being-delivered-via-email/60667).

So how about some sort of notification or indicator for copies that have been updated? This may even be useful for copies that you have not customized, just as a “heads up, this has been changed, you might want to take a look”.

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