About the Migration category

[Discourse]

You want to migrate your community to Discourse? Awesome! This is the category where you can ask questions, get help, and document your Discourse migration journey.

Guides

We have guides on migrating from popular platforms, like:

• Vanilla
• vBulletin 3 and vBulletin 4
• Xenforo
• Mailing lists (Google groups, mbox, Listserv, emails, … )
• bbPress
• MyBB

Prep guides

• Preparing for and undertaking a platform migration
• Pre-launch checklist after migrating from another platform
• Set up an environment to migrate another forum to Discourse

Import scripts

Aside from the guides we also have import scripts for different platforms (some of which don’t yet have documentation). You can find these import scripts at: discourse/script/import_scripts at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub

And we also have a bulk importer feature too:

Importers for large forums

Discourse already has around 40 importers in order to cover a wide range of community software. These importers work very well, but they tend to be slow for very large forums. That’s why we’ve built the bulk importers. What is a bulk importer? Our standard importers go through the same code paths as the application. This has the advantage of ensuring the imported data is consistent. But tends to be slow since it’s importing record by record… In order to go faster, we need to import in bulk. …

Happy migrating! We hope you find these resources useful, and don’t hesitate to ask for any help if you need it.