Can we combine 2 separate discourse sites?

[nathank (Nathan Kershaw)]

I tried it a year and a half ago and found it was not that easy.

After several false starts, I gave up and enlisted the services of @pfaffman - you won’t find a better discourse migration expert outside of the Discourse team!! And he struggled with it too.

The main issues were:

1. The script had a lot of awkward gem dependencies and other fiddly bits that needed to be sorted
2. My ‘from’ database had lots of issues that needed to be sorted before it would run. Lots of problems!!
3. The fidelity was disappointing, with no catering for UCFs, likes, or other richer content.

In the end I abandoned that path and did a simple category import of my lesser forum and lived with the low fidelity for that content.

I’m not sure (unless things have changed) that the merger script is used often enough for it to be polished. But I can attest that this is:

Move topics from one Discourse instance to another

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 the other end. Topic Export/Import one or more topics and their replies the users who posted in the topic Category Export/Import the category and all its subcategories its security settings custom groups mentioned in the security settings if any of the groups have ‘membership requests’ enable…