# Welcome message

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcome-message/225465>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [April 27, 2022, 5:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcome-message/225465 "2022-04-27T17:37:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 7:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcome-message/225465/7 "2022-04-27T19:25:55Z")

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On reflection.. has anyone else requested this in recent years? It seems unfortunate that the behavior we had pre-discobot is now changed so it requires discobot to be enabled to send a welcome message, and that it must come _from_ the discobot account.

IIRC, it used to be these messages would come from the system user or the username specified in the `site contact username` admin setting.

I wouldn’t advocate any change here if we don’t have [rule of three](https://blog.codinghorror.com/rule-of-three/), of course. Folks seem to like the robot. 🤖

And of course not everyone has the automation plugin, so relying on that to send welcome messages is also suboptimal.

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