First impressions count. Marina greets everyone who joins, by name, and can say goodbye when they leave. Greetings take the full formatting toolkit: styled text, buttons, a photo or GIF, fillings like {first} and {chatname}, and several random versions.
Your own welcome#
The default is friendly but plain: Hi {first}, welcome to {chatname}! Make yourself at home. Set your own with /setwelcome, or reply to a photo, GIF, video or sticker to welcome people with it. Building one with buttons? Use the message editor and paste the command it gives you.
Keeping it tidy#
/cleanwelcome on deletes old welcomes after five minutes, and the previous one as soon as someone new joins. To hide Telegram's own "joined the group" notices, see Clean Service.
Commands#
Admins
/welcome <on/off>
Welcome messages on or off. Alone, shows the settings and current welcome.
/goodbye <on/off>
The same for goodbyes. Both start on.
/setwelcome <text>
Sets the welcome. Or reply to a message to use it, media included.
/setgoodbye <text>
Sets the goodbye the same way.
/resetwelcome
Back to the default welcome. /resetgoodbye does the same for goodbyes.
/cleanwelcome <on/off>
Delete old welcomes automatically.
Examples#
/setwelcome Hi {first}, welcome to {chatname}! {rules}
A greeting with a rules button.
/setgoodbye Bye {first}, thanks for being here!
A goodbye by name.
/welcome noformat
The raw welcome, to copy and edit.
Good to know#
- Marina has to be an admin to welcome people.
- Goodbyes are skipped in groups of more than 50 members, where Telegram stops posting leave notices.
- People who join while Marina is offline are greeted together in one message.
- CAPTCHAs ride on the welcome, so they need welcomes switched on.