Welcome and goodbye

As soon as a member joins the community, the bot goes through these steps:

1. It posts the join and invite logs, if those log channels are set (see Logs).
2. It runs the member through the anti-raid protections (bot added, mass joins, too recent account). If one of them kicks the member, everything stops there.
3. If the captcha is on, it waits for the member to type the code (up to 3 minutes). On failure, the member is kicked and everything stops.
4. It sends the welcome message in the arrival channel (and by direct message if you wrote a custom message).
5. It gives the welcome roles.

The message is posted in the arrival channel (Arrival announcement channel on the website), in the community language. Without a channel, no message is posted, but welcome roles are still given.

Until you write a custom message, the bot uses its default text: the title "New member!", then "Welcome to community name !" with the member's display name and the total number of members. Below, the welcome card.

The custom message (Custom welcome message on the website) replaces the default title and text; the card stays. It accepts 2000 characters and Markdown formatting (### for a heading, **bold**, -# for small text…).

### Welcome {user} to **{guildName}**! ☕
You are our **{guildMemberCount}th** member, settle in and introduce yourself!

• An unknown variable stays as is. {memberCount} only exists in the default text: use {guildMemberCount}.
• On Fluxer, a mention placed in the bot's message (an embed) shows but does not notify the member.

The direct message. With a custom message, the bot also sends the message to the new member by direct message: the same text and the card, followed by a "Sent by community name" link that opens the arrival channel. If their direct messages are closed, sending silently fails. With the default text, no direct message is sent.

Welcome roles are added to the member right after the welcome message. For a role to be given:

• the bot must have the Manage roles permission;
• the role must be below the bot's highest role (at an equal position, the older one wins) and not managed by an integration;
• the role must still exist: a deleted role is simply ignored.

The same roles are used by !toggle-lock: they are the ones that lose the right to write in a locked channel.

The captcha is part of the anti-raid. It is on when the anti-raid is on, the captcha protection is on and a captcha text channel is chosen (page Security and anti-raid).

1. The bot posts in the captcha channel an image with a 6-character code and mentions the new member.
2. The member types the code in the channel before the delay ends (3 minutes by default); their answers are deleted as they come and the bot shows the attempts left.
3. On success, the bot sends the welcome message then gives the roles.
4. On failure or timeout, they get a direct message and are kicked.

During that time, the member has no welcome role yet: the captcha channel must therefore be visible to @everyone.

When a member leaves the community (on their own, kicked or banned), the bot posts a goodbye message in the departure channel (Departure announcement channel on the website), which can be the same as the arrival channel.

• Without a departure channel, nothing is posted. No direct message is sent.
• The default text shows the title "A member is leaving us", the member's name, a thank-you and the number of remaining members, with the goodbye card.
• The custom goodbye message accepts the same variables; {guildMemberCount} gives the number of remaining members. Prefer {userName} to {user}: the member is gone.

Each message comes with a 1200 × 400 pixel image generated by the bot, in the community language: the community's name, "WELCOME, ALEX!" or "GOODBYE, ALEX!", the member's avatar and name on a polaroid, and a badge with the member's number (or the number of remaining members).

The welcome card's background is, in order: the member's personal background (Individual plan), the community's welcome image, otherwise Dispatch.IO's default image. For the goodbye: the community's goodbye image, otherwise the default image. The dark veil (on by default) keeps the text readable.

Testing. On the website, Test the welcome and Test the goodbye make the bot send the real message, as if you had just joined or left (after saving a channel; no role is given during a test).