# Onboarding

> Discord’s native first-run flow, where a joining member picks interests and gets channels and roles accordingly. Available to Community-enabled servers at no cost.

- Canonical: https://discordtools.blog/glossary/onboarding
- Group: Engagement
- See also: https://discordtools.blog/glossary/verification-gate, https://discordtools.blog/glossary/welcome-message
- Updated: 2026-08-31
- Publication: The Index, an independent site not affiliated with Discord Inc.

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Onboarding replaces the older pattern of a rules channel plus a reaction-role post, and it
runs before the member reaches the server rather than after.

Its limit is that it is a one-time flow with no follow-up: it can route a member to the right
channels but cannot notice that they never posted in any of them.