Skip tips option in user tip should not delete welcome message

I signed up at try some days ago and used the skip tips option at the first tip that was shown to me.
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This also immediately deleted the personal message I received. This is something I did not expect to happen, though it seems intentional.

In my opinion, the welcome message is more than a tip. Even if a user knows how Discourse works, I’d like them to receive it. Maybe the admin even personalized it. Most of the information is more site-specific than Discourse-specific. While you probably know about trust levels, it is still useful to take a look at the guidelines of this community.

When you had to disable the tips in your preferences, it was more likely you’d have taken a look at the message before disabling the tips and deleting the message. The new skip button offers this before you even had a chance to read the message.

As a user, it is difficult to recognize the connection between the disappearance of a personal message whose content you do not know and the deactivation of pop-up tips. There is no way to find out which message disappeared and no way to get it back. Even if you re-enable the user tips in your profile, you don’t receive a new message. The impression remains of having missed an important message.

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Hey @Moin — thanks for sharing this feedback with us! We’re taking a look at this to see about ensuring the message is not deleted when user tips are dismissed.

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@Moin sorry for the delay on this one, it is at last fixed via UX: Do not delete narrative bot PM when skipping user tips by pmusaraj · Pull Request #28265 · discourse/discourse · GitHub

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