I’m sure I’ve seen a post here where someone shared a way to populate a fresh installation with dummy content - users, posts, replies, maybe uploads, badges, etc - for testing. This is not for pre-seeding a new forum to entice users. And although I can see it’s possible with an API, I believe it w…

Is it what you’re looking for? [image] Set up a staging server If you want a staging server, then you should populate it with your actual data from your actual forum via a Restore. Sometimes it is your particular data that is causing the issue, and testing your forum with some other set of data …

Seeking dummy forum data for testing purposes

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Ed_S (Ed S) April 7, 2025, 12:19pm 4

Ah, that surely is it - many thanks!

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Seeking dummy forum data for testing purposes

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