I would also like to see this feature added to this great hack!

At this point, I'll try anything to get my members to post. I've been looking for something like this because I mostly do my welcomes by PM -- my members have markedly different levels of expertise and interests so I try to gauge them and adjust the welcome accordingly. No more.

This hack installed pretty easily and works well. One more install click for you.

Do you have plan to release V3 for download here?

Great script. I've had installed for some time now and I chose the option to allow the new user to enter their own message on registration. Most do edit it, but some let the default message go through. But it has helped to get users to open up a bit and start posting. At least they start off with a post count of 1.
One thing though, I just noticed that my welcome emails to new registrants aren't going out. They are getting the "Activate your account" emails ok, but not the welcome email, neither after registration or after they have activated their account. I double checked my settings and the Welcome email box is checked "Yes".
Not blaming your script, but there seems to be a minor conflict with vbulletins' register.php script and this one. Because the new user now has a post count of 1, even though they have yet to activate or even if they have, the welcome email fails to go out. There is a line in register.php, around line 1495:
In the highlighted AND !$userinfo['posts']) means that if the user has a post count the welcome email does not go out. I deleted that one conditional, and tested it out by having a friend go and do a test registration. He got the Welcome email! If you have your settings set to "Moderate new members", or if you have your welcome on registration settings set to have the Admin "Welcome Message" displayed, this point is moot. But if you have the same conditions as I do, and your welcome emails aren't going out, you may want the check the above section in register.php. Of course this is a temp fix. Could a conditional be added in the "New Thread on Registration" script to work around this particular conflict?
John

@RaZor Edge: yup, in some time. It's fully operational and been running on my production board for a while, i just wait to add more features to it.

@wirewolf:
Did you add 2 phrases to Email Subject Text + Email Body Text?
for example:
Var Group: Email Subject Text
varname: welcomemail
Text: Welcome to $bbtitle, $username!

and for Email Body Text
varname: welcomemail
text: msg goes here

This is what I have:
This the standard welcome mail that goes out. I wrote up a html page (the link above), as a more formal welcome. I could have included the html in the welcome email, but a lot of people don't accept html in their mail, and besides, it makes the email rather large.

John

when someone registers u wanna read a thread
it says

kanYeWest, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

1. Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
2. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

why

that one is easy check your permissions ... "can view threads" etc ...

i no that but im the admin i supposed to view everying but i cant i went in permissions still wont let me darn

never mind i found out that i had to put the forum id lol thanks anyways :ogre:

is there a way of the hack making the allocated person get an extra post count everytime it creates a welcoe post?

ive set it to admin but it doesnt add extra post count? any way?

This hack is excellent, and I am VERY new at installing these, what a breeze, thank you.

Well, I have to say...what a great hack...

Everything installed perfectly and the script created a post in the proper forum.

*intalled!*

Thank you!

Hmm, installed, admincp stuff is there, but it's not creating the thread.

My forumid is an existing forum, and I have the user set to Welcome-Bot, userid #1.

Any ideas?

can't get it to work for some reason. I did all the modifications, but there is nothing to edit in the vb options for user registeration options. It's still the same. Any help?

Did the file edit, ran the installer and went it and changed the settings and it works great.

works great!

although i have the default options set for 'instant email notifications' and to subscribe to posts, the new user isn't subscribed to this post.

this is probably an easy code change. this way, when people respond to the user's introductory post, they get an email and get reminded to return to the site.

ideas?

Any chance this will be updated for vB 3.5?

Bump

hmmm...looks like it might not be updated.

But I found a new plug-in that might replace it:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=91887

installed on Version 3.0.10, works great. thanks

I am running 3.5.2 and in my register.php file I can not seem to find the line that has //save count and new .......... on it can someone help me out