I have tried using a few ways all of which did not cause any error messages (or if they did they were easy to fix) but they still did not send the DM.
the way that I'm most confident of is:
@client.event
async def on_member_join(member):
await member.create_dm()
await member.dm_channel.send(
f'Hi {member.name}, welcome to my Discord server!'
)
There could be multiple issues with this but for the moment I'm stuck on the second line; it doesn't actually activate if a user joins my server (I tested this by just shoving a print command straight after it and watching the output as I joined the server on an alt). Any ideas would be appreciated. :)
oh yeah I tried another way that might work but I couldn't get to: how to make discord bot send a new user DM?
I have since managed to get this to work and am still unsure of what wasn't working, my best guess is that something wasn't working correctly somewhere else in my code.