I see. Well, allow me to make a request, that we be able to choose for the post to be made by a moderator, or the new user's referrer, or perhaps a WelcomeBot. I've always felt it strange to see an automatically generated message posted by a new member. Seems counter-intuitive and somewhat unfriendly to me.


Thanks, that'd be great. On some small-ish forums, this is a cleaner way to handle things, and new members are infrequent enough that no one would get lost in the shuffle.

In case you hadn't seen this, flypaper modified amykhar's similar hack, and it posts to into a thread (instead of starting a whole new thread: )
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=195

Hope this helps.

Hmm...OK, if this is a simple change, Ill add the option in the next day or two. Thinking outloud, Ill prolly just create an option that is defaulted to "0", meaning "post as the new member", or can be set to a userid to have the welcome posted as that userid.

I may have to go change the method for posting the note to make this work, but Ill look at it tonight.

Yeah, this is a simple coding change, but not sure how to do the configuration side. Also will look at this tonight.

I just uploaded v0.91 of this modification.

Per request, this change adds the ability to post the welcome message to a thread by setting the Welcome Forum to "0" and setting the Welcome Thread to the correct threadid. The Welcome Forum takes precedence over the Welcome Thread settings.

Cleaned up some minor coding issues and mis-spellings while I was in there.

Sweet, thanks!

sinaluna has anyone else installed this yet or any way for me to see a demo yet?

I will have it installed on a public forum this weekend. Ill post the link then. If someone else has it installed where others can see it, please feel free to post that here.

Also, I would love to see some template examples people end up using. If I see something cool in them, Ill add it to the product!

I just uploaded v0.92 of this modification.

Per request, this change adds the ability to have the welcome message posted as any existing user. By default, the userid is set to "0", which posts the welcome message as the new user.

Thanks to Tralala for the suggestions...

Awesome, sinaluna, thanks so much for the update.

The other "Welcome Thread" hack posted too early (pre-authorization, pre-mod approval...) so this one should fit the bill nicely.

No problem Tralala...Let me know how it works for you.

Id be interested in seeing the templates you end up using. I really didnt work too hard on making presentable templates. They basically just were built to demonstrate how to link the welcome message and the add on message to each other.

Okay, yeah, I'm working on the wording and workflow to see what makes most sense.

Question: if we don't want any "add on text" to the new user's first post, should we just delete the text in the "welcome_addon" template? It would be nice, I think, if this was another option that could be turned off in AdminCP.

Also, we should be editing the text in the templates of all of our styles? Why not make these as phrases instead?