Onboarding feature separation

Gako

The new Onboarding feature is a double edged sword in my opinion. The questions that can be used to assign roles to new people are wonderful, very helpful in getting new users to pick roles. The default channels, however, are everything but that. In any slightly bigger server (such as ours), I can guarantee that there is a significant portion of the users who don't know what the Browse Channels features is, where to find it, how to use it or what it even accomplishes. This combined with the fact that selecting these default channels is a requirement for the questions and there is an upper limit for the channels (25) and the channels have to be visible for everyone (removing any chance of a verification if needed) makes it utterly useless. Separating these two features would be a great choice I'd be satisfied about and would lead to us actually using this feature, as currently we are continuing to use external bots to grant people roles.

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  • Fahmin
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    Yes, separate these two features and allow us to set up and keep the "ROLES/Customization Questions" features only (without setting up and keeping the browse channel feature).

    Also in customization questions, apart from emoji per options, add a feature to select custom color as embed for each questions and a thumbnail (a custom pic regarding that question beside the question).

     

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  • Shadow

    I just got it on a server I manage. I was really looking forward to use it to manage roles but I got disappointed right away.

    Onboarding requires 5 channels to be publicly opened (viewable and open to chat to everyone) and 7 channels to be set as default. My server structure has only 1 channel that could be opened to chat to everyone before some type of verification and like only 3 channels that would be candidates as default.

    Therefore, these requirements make Onboarding really useless to me (not to mention they feel really dumb and I can't see how it would fit most of the communities out there. In fact, I have seen Browser Channels in 4 servers I'm in and none of those have enabled Onboarding/Customize for some reason [I guess what]).

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  • mekamode

    Yes I totally agree! Please separate these features! They're completely unrelated. In my server, there's only 1 open channel that everyone can talk in, with a few locked ones like guidelines and about. The rest require verification with another bot, since we wish to keep things private until the bot verifies a newcomer has a character in the game my server is based on.

    After getting verified, I have a role-selection channel. All I want is to replace it with the built-in Discord version. But onboarding is atrocious in requiring that feature to be paired with the browse channel feature. Why does the browse channel feature get its own separate thing but role selection doesn't?

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