use botJoinMessage from config with default being the same as before

config/config.default.json

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
   // (see readme for more details)
   "matrixServerUrl": "http://localhost:8008/",
   "matrixServerName": "localhost",
+  // "botJoinMessage": "Joining room … See FAQ _" (full default in code)
   // Set this to 100 since that is the max that Synapse will backfill even if you do a
   // `/messages?limit=1000` and we don't want to miss messages in between.
   "messageLimit": 100,

server/lib/matrix-utils/ensure-room-joined.js

@@ -16,6 +16,16 @@ assert(matrixServerUrl);
 
 const matrixViewerURLCreator = new MatrixViewerURLCreator(basePath);
 
+const defaultJoinMessage = `Joining room to check history visibility. ` +
+  `If your room is public with shared or world readable history visibility, ` +
+  `it will be accessible on ${matrixViewerURLCreator.roomDirectoryUrl()}. ` +
+  `See the FAQ for more details: ` +
+  `https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-viewer/blob/main/docs/faq.md#why-did-the-bot-join-my-room`;
+
+config.defaults({
+  botJoinMessage: defaultJoinMessage,
+});
+
 async function ensureRoomJoined(
   accessToken,
   roomIdOrAlias,
@@ -49,12 +59,7 @@ async function ensureRoomJoined(
       accessToken,
       abortSignal,
       body: {
-        reason:
+        reason: config.get("botJoinMessage"),
-          `Joining room to check history visibility. ` +
-          `If your room is public with shared or world readable history visibility, ` +
-          `it will be accessible on ${matrixViewerURLCreator.roomDirectoryUrl()}. ` +
-          `See the FAQ for more details: ` +
-          `https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-viewer/blob/main/docs/faq.md#why-did-the-bot-join-my-room`,
       },
     });
     assert(