Welcome-a-newcomer automation — your chat greets people for you
This one is not a dialog: nobody has to message the bot to start it. It is an automation — a trigger and one message — that fires when someone joins your chat and greets them by pointing at the pinned rules. Apply it, change the wording to your own, publish, and every newcomer is met the same way whether you are at your desk or asleep. Free, and it lives beside your bot’s conversation flow rather than replacing it.
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Questions about this template
Does this replace my bot’s dialog? +
No. An automation is stored separately from the conversation flow — applying this recipe creates a new automation and leaves your dialog untouched. Several automations can run alongside one flow.
Will it greet people an admin adds directly? +
Only if your bot receives Telegram’s membership updates. Bots created before that subscription existed see a join only when Telegram posts a service message about it — one webhook refresh fixes that.
Which chats does it cover? +
Every chat your bot is in, unless you narrow it afterwards. The recipe deliberately ships without a chat filter, because a gallery card cannot know which chats you have.