Spawn all Joining Players (not just new players) at Specific Location

[quick olive]

My end goal is to make a "hub-like" world in my velocity-powered server. Regardless of how a player joins, i want that player to spawn at a specific location in the world, or as a workaround be teleported to a specific location at spawn. i am quite familiar with programming, but not quite with datapacks in particular. i have created a datapack, but i am unfamiliar with the datapack file structure.

i used AI to make a template of what i am looking for, but ive quickly realizes that that is not a very smart idea, so I joined this discord to ask for help. i will send screenshots of what i have in a moment.

[dark halo]

Ok what are you currently stuck with? What have you got so far?

[quick olive]

let me send some screenshots

if formatted code blocks are perferred, i can provide that as well

[quick olive]

so far, i cant figure out how to even run something every tick. ill look at some documentation right now to see what im missing

starting to understand it better now

everything defined under the tick minecraft tag will run every tick, which executes the join mcfunction

that join function will teleport every player that does not have the joined tag to the location specified, then immediately applies the tag to the player

curiously, no tags get applied when i reload

[dapper spruce]

tick.json is supposed to be at data>minecraft>tags

[quick olive]

Ah ok

ive moved the file, but nothing happens on reload still

[quick olive]

alright, i put it in data/minecraft/tags/function, and that worked, but now its teleporting me every single frame

i still have to figure out how to detect a player actually joining

i got it working! heres my end result code

[lime crown]

join.mcfunction

execute as @a[ scores = { join = 1.. }] at @s run tp @s -82.5 70 -27.5
scoreboard players reset @a join

tick.mcfunction

function joinspawn:join