Hey gang. I have an existing forum (Discourse), and another site in my same niche is throwing in the towel (also Discourse). How do I ‘import’ the content from his site to mine without doing a full backup/restore? Any pointers?

[image] Move topics from one Discourse instance to another Self-Hosting Need to move some stuff from one instance of Discourse to another? There is a command line tool to export a topic, a set of topics, or an entire category, and another to import them in at …

If that solves your problem, you should come back when done and mark as solution so people with similar issues in the future know that works.

I should have some results here in the next week or so when I try it in dev.

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itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma) March 14, 2026, 8:07pm 2

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