Can sub-forums of the same instance split up and move to new independent servers (or discourse instances)?

[fefrei (Felix Freiberger)]

Assuming the topics that should be moved out live in their own category, a solution for this is currently being proposed:

CLI command to migrate a single category

We need to build a general purpose tool for moving a category from one Discourse instance to another. This has come up on one of our customers and is also useful for a variety of use cases: Use cases for category import / export (current need) During huge migrations we may need to avoid long term downtime, so we need to run a temporary site on one domain and then ship the content (eventually) to the new imported site In some cases category partitioning is not strong enough, we have seen t…