Hi, I am experimenting with migration from another platform to Discourse using the API. I have a lot of users and I will migrate them to Discource. When I create a user, it has today’s creation date. But many users are 10+ years on the forum and it will be a shame to lose it after moving. When I…

Is there a reason not to use a migration script? This and many other problems you are likely to encounter will be solved.

Oh, yes, we will use the migration from your team when we have a database dump. I am just experimenting now, as I do not yet know all the functions of Discourse. On the old forum, we had special groups and roles. I am doing the import via API to configure it in Discourse. I also want to understand…

None of those things depends on the user creation date. :wink: I think you might be able to push a created_at value in a push or a post.

Ok, I just saw the settings depending on the number of days, but have not yet read them in detail. Just put it off until user testing. [image]

I think you might be able to push a created_at value in a push or a post. I make a request to update several fields for the test. 'created_at' => '2013-05-04T11:49:06.782Z', 'user_fields' => [ 1 => '104', 2 => 'Patron' ] In this case User_fileds are updated without a…

You can do it at the rails console. You can also just change their trust level. Description of various user states in Discourse (Admin / Moderator / Staff / Developer / Other) there are other topics in that category.

Thank you for sharing and for the insight:ok_hand:

Change user registration date (created_at) via API

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) December 6, 2020, 2:29pm 4

None of those things depends on the user creation date.

I think you might be able to push a created_at value in a push or a post.

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