Hey Discourse meta users, I’m the founder of http://www.payetteforward.com , an iPhone help-related website that currently gets 750,000 uniques / month and we’re growing. Our forum is built on bbPress. Discourse is miles ahead of bbPress in terms of user experience - I don’t have to tell you why I’…

This is going to sound like a sales pitch, and I apologize. But with so much at stake, I strongly recommend you work with someone who has migrated a bunch of sites to Discourse, and knows how to run the gauntlet of the issues you describe, because they have done it before. So whether us, or someone…

[image] payetteforward: Migrating from bbPress to Discourse and SSO My friend with 80,000 bbPress users and I are both apprehensive about what specifically will happen when we import bbPress users and posts into Discourse. I’m familiar with the Primetime SSO plugin and as I understand it, SSO w…

Hey Jeff, Thanks for taking the time to respond so quickly and I see where you’re coming from. I feel uncomfortable letting even a professional handle the migration because I haven’t seen a successful example of their work with a website analogous to my own, but that’s not the only reason. I’m not…

I thought about that too, and I’ll think I’ll take your advice for my website. For websites with large forums, abandoning the preexisting user tables is problematic. This is a barrier to entry for established companies whose adoption of Discourse would benefit them and Discourse as a whole..

[image] payetteforward: Does the flow of information go both ways? If a user creates an account on the Discourse site (using Facebook, Twitter, or a standalone account), is that information fed back into the Wordpress users database? No, all local logins will be disabled as soon as you enable…

I migrated a (after pruning) 20k users bbPress site to Discourse , and I can at least assure you that: SEO did not take a hit. (We’re still using our WordPress site as the landing page & blog. Discourse for comments). User engagement definitely seemed to increase (we didn’t collect enough data from…

[image] payetteforward: Why does it make the forum so vulnerable? Let me try to answer this bit: Discourse is built on the assumption that email addresses are valid. The most obvious risk is that users with mistyped E-Mail addresses can lose their account, because anyone who can read their em…

Hey Michael, Thanks for the time you took to get back to me. That’s the nail in the coffin for SSO. Discourse login is so much more intuitive than Wordpress login anyway - I get emails all the time complaining about it. I’m ditching it and we’ll use Discourse for login. Quick question: Is there a …

[image] payetteforward: Quick question: Is there a site setting to disable email in the Admin section that I’m not seeing, or do I have to comment out the email section and rebuild the docker container to disable email? Note the search bar in the admin settings - a great tool for me: [image…

Hey Erlend, Thanks so much for getting to me. Would you share the URL of the website you migrated? I’d love to see the way you integrated comments. Great to hear that SEO was unaffected - I’d love to see the website itself and how they implemented the Discourse side of things to get an idea of wha…

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