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[angus (Angus McLeod)]

Glad you figured out the issue.

@federatedRoss

Since there are well over 100k users, is there a solution for doing this in bulk?

Yes, there is, however I’d suggest considering this in some depth first as a community management issue before you consider how to do this programmatically. If you haven’t already done a deep-dive on trust levels check out

Understanding Discourse Trust Levels

Then, if it were me, I’d identify a few groups of users (perhaps your old solution still had some kind of user grouping?) that you want to grant higher trust levels, i.e. 3 and 4. This will be mostly a manual process. For the lower levels, i.e. 1 and 2, it’d have to be in bulk. You could perhaps map some user metadata from your old forum to the trust level heuristics. Or come up with some basic rules. The code itself is relatively simple, but I wouldn’t just copy/paste the code in the topic for 100k users.

Modify trust level for all users

Here’s an example of a bulk operation to set the trust level to 2 for all users currently at trust level 0 or 1: This is slow, but ensures that locked trust levels aren’t changed. But it may be preferred especially when you have fewer that 1000 users User.where(trust_level: [0, 1]).find_each do |user| user.change_trust_level!(TrustLevel[2]) end If there were more than 1000 users, I would have used this instead, but this would not respect locked trust levels. DB.exec("UPDATE users SET trus…

More broadly, your best bet would probably be for your discourse hosting provider to handle the migration for you, as this is something they often deal with and will have sophisticated solutions for.