# Converting discourse topics to read only pages
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/converting-discourse-topics-to-read-only-pages/69636
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 8, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/converting-discourse-topics-to-read-only-pages/69636 "2017-09-08T15:04:37Z")
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### Author:  [@san\_g](https://meta.discourse.org/u/san_g)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/converting-discourse-topics-to-read-only-pages/69636/1 "2017-09-08T15:04:38Z")
We are in the process of closing discourse site and making it only read only html static pages. We do not want to maintain any user accounts, badges, points etc.
Is there any recommended way to do it?
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### Author:  [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2017, 3:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/converting-discourse-topics-to-read-only-pages/69636/2 "2017-09-08T15:07:00Z")
This topic might help you:
> [@A basic Discourse archival tool](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-basic-discourse-archival-tool/62614):
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> Archival tool updated with Codex May 2026 It seems that it’s pretty tricky to save an entire discourse site to a static version. According to [this post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/archive-an-old-forum-in-place-to-start-a-new-discourse-forum/13433/10) by Jeff Atwood, it’s “much harder than you’d think”. It doesn’t appear that this is a priority for the Discourse team, either, which is perfectly understandable. For my purposes, though, I found that I really needed some way to generate basic, static HTML versions of my Discourse sites. I’ve been using Discourse for a couple of years now as a d…
Make sure to read through it, multiple alternatives have been discussed there 🙂
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2024, 12:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/converting-discourse-topics-to-read-only-pages/69636/3 "2024-06-08T12:44:14Z")
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