welcome conversation

Recently, discovered this new feature. I enabled it and added a group of cheerleaders to welcome a new member... however, there is no Alert, when the welcome conversation is initiated so the new member or the other invited members never actually know that a group conversation has even been...

Thanks for implementing this feature. This allows me to give new users a quick overview of the site's features. I would think that configuring both the conversation and the welcome email would be redundant, since a new conversation sends out an email message. Am I right?

I'm trying to setup the new user conversation feature, but I keep on getting the 'Please enter at least one valid recipient.' error when saving. I've entered my username in the recipient box, as I want to be the sender and noone else needs to participate. If I add another user, it works fine...