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Welcome new users with customized trust level promotion messages

The default on-boarding journey is set up using the Discourse narrative bot. It’s a great feature in general, but at times you might not want to welcome new users with a bot. This howto lists the steps involved to set up on-boarding with the trust level messages sent by the site contact user. Set up the site contact user All automated messages are sent by the site contact user. It’s the system user by default. You can change this by modifying site contact username in Settings: [Screenshot from…

One goal with this was not welcoming with the bot. The other idea not interrupting users right after sign-up. They most likely sign up because they intent to do sth. so the welcome message comes 10 - 15 mins later.