Setting it up
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Write your welcome message
Run
/welcome set <message> [channel] with the text you want new members to see. Include a channel to post it publicly, or leave the channel out and Newt will send it as a direct message to the new member instead. You get a preview back immediately, so you can see exactly what someone will see before the first person ever joins.2
Set up the welcome card (optional)
Head to the dashboard and open the Welcome section for your server. Switch the welcome card on, then choose a background — pick from four built-in styles or upload your own image. The live preview redraws in real time using your own avatar as you type, so what you see is exactly what new members will get.
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Set up your goodbye message
Run
/goodbye set <message> <channel> to start sending a message whenever someone leaves. The channel is required — Discord will not reliably let the bot message someone who has already left the server.Placeholders
Use these anywhere in your welcome or goodbye message text. Newt replaces them with live values when the message sends.
Slash commands are single-line, so type
\n wherever you want a line break in your message.
The welcome card
When you switch on the welcome card, Newt generates a custom image and attaches it to every welcome message. It shows the new member’s avatar inside a ring, a big greeting, and their member number — all rendered on whichever background you chose. You can pick from four built-in styles or upload your own image. The preview on the dashboard is drawn by exactly the same code the bot runs, so there are no surprises.Things worth knowing
If your server requires members to accept rules before they can talk, the welcome message fires after they accept — not the moment they appear. Many people land on the rules screen and never accept at all, so Newt waits until they are actually in. The same applies on the way out: someone who leaves without ever accepting the rules gets no goodbye, because they never received a welcome either.
Typing @everyone into your greeting will not ping anyone. Welcomes fire on every single join, so Newt deliberately prevents that from becoming a server-wide notification.
Nobody turned away by the account age gate receives a welcome, and their removal does not trigger a goodbye. Raid accounts that are blocked before they ever become members are not counted as joins.