# Welcoming topic

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcoming-topic/83705
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [March 24, 2018, 11:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcoming-topic/83705 "2018-03-24T11:06:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![alefattorini](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alefattorini/32/119928_2.png) [@alefattorini](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alefattorini)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2018, 11:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcoming-topic/83705/1 "2018-03-24T11:06:34Z")

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Every Monday I say hi to my new members who joined over the last week.  
Usually I extract the full user list and elaborate a bit with my spreadsheet editor: cutting old members, ordering by creation date..  
Then I elaborate a bit with a couple of “sed” on my linux shell in order to have a list of members like this:  
@jondoe - John Doe - Italy  
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Is there any chance to have this kind of feature on Discourse? Like Facebook groups for example  
So I click a button and it sets up a new topic for me?

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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2018, 12:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcoming-topic/83705/2 "2018-03-24T12:20:02Z")

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Have you looked at the [data explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) plug in? It’ll let you create a query to get the data you want. If you know what sed is, you can likely get your data with curl and do a tweak with curl.

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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: [March 25, 2018, 4:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcoming-topic/83705/3 "2018-03-25T04:22:48Z")

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Isn’t this what discobot does?

Plus there is the new user of the month award badge.

Admin, users, new, is fairly easy to work with as well.

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### Author: ![mikechristopher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mikechristopher/32/89135_2.png) [@mikechristopher](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mikechristopher)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2018, 9:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcoming-topic/83705/4 "2018-03-25T09:57:16Z")

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Another way is you could use a webhook and zapier to write the new members to a spreadsheet and more than likely then have it automatically copy them into a post and send back through via the api on a regular basis