# Unable to enable the old welcome message

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-enable-the-old-welcome-message/62644
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [May 13, 2017, 9:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-enable-the-old-welcome-message/62644 "2017-05-13T09:19:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author: ![nawthor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nawthor/32/71115_2.png) [@nawthor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nawthor)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2017, 9:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-enable-the-old-welcome-message/62644/1 "2017-05-13T09:19:44Z")

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I have disabled the “discourse narrative bot enabled”, as I would prefer to keep the old welcome message.  
The problem is that the only setting mentioning a welcome message is “disable discourse narrative bot welcome post”. And regardless of whether it is enabled or disabled, there is no welcome message sent to new users.

Could anyone inform me how I can re-enable the old welcome message?

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### Author: ![dax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dax/32/244677_2.png) [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2017, 1:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-enable-the-old-welcome-message/62644/2 "2017-05-13T13:22:49Z")

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Search for `send welcome message` , it should be in Settings \> Other

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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: [May 13, 2017, 1:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-enable-the-old-welcome-message/62644/3 "2017-05-13T13:25:05Z")

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No, I thought so too, but just checked and it’s no longer there

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### Author: ![dax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dax/32/244677_2.png) [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2017, 1:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-enable-the-old-welcome-message/62644/4 "2017-05-13T13:26:30Z")

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So this is probably a bug. When you disable the narrative bot you should be able to set again the welcome message

cc @tgxworld ?

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### Author: ![tgxworld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tgxworld/32/106117_2.png) [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2017, 1:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-enable-the-old-welcome-message/62644/5 "2017-05-13T13:33:23Z")

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When you disable the bot, the send welcome message site setting is auto enabled again. I’ll have a look to see if that is still the case.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2017, 6:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-enable-the-old-welcome-message/62644/6 "2017-05-13T18:24:17Z")

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The old copy still should come from the bot, though. We want one code path here.

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### Author: ![tgxworld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tgxworld/32/106117_2.png) [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2017, 7:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-enable-the-old-welcome-message/62644/8 "2017-05-16T07:05:14Z")

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Fixed in

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse-narrative-bot/commit/8966af8f6619ee88a8d740463a3a9f21e1dab73d](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-narrative-bot/commit/8966af8f6619ee88a8d740463a3a9f21e1dab73d)

The bot basically has a new SiteSetting which allows you to configure which type of welcome post you would like to send.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/f/4/f435dab62e6e425f06c2a94ce8aff545b945cd58.png)

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2017, 7:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-enable-the-old-welcome-message/62644/9 "2017-05-16T07:19:47Z")

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We should also _close_ the welcome message in the “quick start guide” case as we want to have very clear signaling that the user should **not** respond to it.

(arguably we should also do this if bot replies are disabled too.)

(edit: I have also removed the invitation to reply from the existing beta version in anticipation.)

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### Author: ![tgxworld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tgxworld/32/106117_2.png) [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2017, 8:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-enable-the-old-welcome-message/62644/11 "2017-05-16T08:42:35Z")

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Fixed in

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse-narrative-bot/commit/05869c5c0aa7aaeda0a34f03dd24470d7211ffe8](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-narrative-bot/commit/05869c5c0aa7aaeda0a34f03dd24470d7211ffe8)

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### Author: ![tgxworld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tgxworld/32/106117_2.png) [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2017, 6:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-enable-the-old-welcome-message/62644/12 "2017-05-22T06:15:17Z")

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